Singapore claims to understand cloud computing best in Asia Pacific

Throughout Asia and the Pacific, Singapore has the most confidence in its knowledge of cloud computing, thanks to the government's strong push and leadership in corporate cloud adoption and national efforts to attract service providers to invest in data centers in the country.

According to VMware's 2012-year Cloud Index report, 82% of Singaporean respondents said they believed they had a deep understanding of cloud computing, above the regional average of 75%, said Michael Barnes, vice president and research director of Orrester Research, who carried out the study.

This is the first time Singapore has won in this category, defeating Australia, which has topped the list for the past two years, he added in a press conference published in Wednesday to publish the results of an online survey.

Commissioned by VMware, the annual study, which took place in September this year, is now the third. A total of 4 954 senior It practitioners have been surveyed throughout the Asia-Pacific region in 10 economies: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Japan was separately surveyed by ITR, another market research firm.

Barnes said. Singapore and Hong Kong have also been found to have the deepest concerns about data privacy and data presence in the region, even though their governments have consistently encouraged investment in local data centres.

It is possible, in Singapore, that companies with such concerns are concerned about their feelings, and that their understanding and understanding of the cloud is sufficient, he added.

At the same time, the strong influence of the Singapore government's "cloud" stance on the firm should not be underestimated, and Forrester analysts have highlighted how data center services and equipment are used and provided by various foreign companies.

"[Singapore] The government is doing a good job of attracting data center investment into the country, while other countries or some countries may not encourage the cloud for a variety of reasons," Barnes said.

Alvin Kok, head of information and communications services at the Singapore Telecom conglomerate, said at the same briefing that the government Cloud (G-cloud) has helped to promote cognitive outreach both in Singapore and abroad.

This indirectly pushes Singaporean companies to consider cloud computing if they haven't done so, Kok said. "If the government continues to move with the cloud and the government is an organization that prioritizes security and deals with a large number of sensitive electronic citizen data, the company will think: Why can't I use the cloud as a business?" “

Cloud uses spotlight the role of the telecommunications company

As for the current cloud use, the top three countries are Australia (58%), Singapore (51%) and India (50%) compared with the regional average of 42%.

Barnes stressed that as the cloud adopted growth across the region, the perception of what constituted cloud use was maturing, from simply using SaaS (software as a service) application to data center transitions and IT business optimization.

So, given that 69% of Singaporean respondents want to use cloud computing to increase the key role of telecoms operators or managed service providers, the location and machine of telecom carriers will highlight growth, "he added. Across Asia, the figure is 59%.

Kevin Pratesa,vmware, the ASEAN Director-service provider and public cloud, also agreed at a news conference that telecoms operators are increasingly having to innovate and "sell stacks", not just providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Telecom operators realized that they could not do this alone, so they acquired or cooperated with IT companies, Pratesa said, with the acquisition of dimension data, such as NTT DoCoMo, and cooperation between Singapore Telecom and VMware. The agreement announced two years ago, VMware provides cloud computing platform, management and security features for Singapore Telecom's IaaS products, called integrated package computing.

Telecommunications operators have a big advantage in cloud space, because "when it comes to cloud, connectivity is a big problem", and telecoms operators have local networks and can cross the region, says Kok, Singapore Telecom executive.

(Responsible editor: Schpeppen)