Cloud apps will contribute 3 billion dollars a year to Australia

While there is evidence that large Australian companies and units may shrink the electronic-information spending budget for some cloud applications, a government-backed report notes that cloud technology has been the focus of small and fledgling companies in Australia. The report predicts that cloud applications will contribute 3 billion of billions of dollars of growth to Australia's GDP each year.

     The results are from KPMG (KPMG, a global network of professional services agencies that provide audit, tax and consultancy services to businesses and institutions), The survey targeted 29 companies with a 80% per cent contribution to Australia's GDP. KPMG also found that if Australia's financial, property and business services sector, education, media and communications sectors increased its investment in cloud technology in infrastructure, these sectors would reduce the cost of electronic information by about 25-50%. If the cost of these savings is diverted to production innovation, Australia's GDP will achieve an annual growth of $3.32 billion trillion in the next decade. Nicki Hutley, chief economist at KPMG,     , Nitch Hetter that cloud technology will undoubtedly inject a boost into the Australian market for small, start-up businesses. "With cloud applications, start-up companies have the opportunity to reduce operating costs, and cloud applications for small businesses can be tailored to customer needs, which will be a major change for small businesses in Australia," she said.

     Now, some enterprises and institutions have begun to integrate their service systems with the public cloud services system, with a start to fruition. such as the Australian Surfing Lifesaving Organization (SLSA), which recently merged their members, training, surveillance, ordering and voice recognition systems with cloud services platforms such as public beach security sites and member self-help portals, the group claimed that they could save 400,000 of billions of dollars a year through this series of initiatives.

     Australian Congressman Stephen Canroy (Stephen Conroy) was involved in KPMG's work on the report, He argues that the current Australian population's acceptance of cloud applications is mainly due to the data sovereignty and connectivity problems caused by low speed broadband. In addition, he affirmed the work of cloud service providers, including the Australian Telecom (Telstra), Fujitsu (Fujitsu), NEXTDC and Macquarie Telecom (Macquarie EADS).

    , Australia's justice minister, Nicola Rough is planning to discuss with the U.S. government the content of offshore data in the U.S. Patriot Act. Stephen Canroy that Australia is a good choice for other international companies that want to build offshore data centers. He wants to discuss with them a plan to establish an offshore data center in Australia in the near future when he goes to the US to meet with Google executives. Other electronic information industry multinationals have also expressed interest and concern in choosing Australia to invest in data centers, including Salesforce (CRM's software service provider) and Amazon network Services (Amazon Web service, or AWS).

China ccpit Electronic Information Industry Branch compilation: Guo Kai

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