Global Business Cloud Reporting: BRIC countries still lag behind

Beijing Time March 7 News, according to foreign media reports, the Commercial Software Alliance (BSA) Thursday released the 2013 Global Cloud Computing Evaluation Research Report. The report notes that BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are still lagging far behind developed countries in key policymaking on future cloud computing, but four countries have made some progress over the past year.

Cloud computing ranked 1-12 (Tencent Science and technology with map)

The Business Software Alliance, which includes US industry giants such as Microsoft, said in its second annual cloud report that the BRIC countries were all in the lower half of the 24 countries surveyed. The Business Software Alliance was divided into 100 points and Brazil scored 44.1 points, rising from the last to 22nd place. China, India and Russia ranked 2, scoring 51.5 points, 53.1 points and 59.1 points respectively.

Cloud computing refers to providing software, storage, computing power, and other services to customers from remote data centers over the network. Cloud computing software demand is growing fast because it allows businesses to use new programs faster and cheaply than traditional products installed in the customer's own data center. "Cloud computing is now a hot area in the IT industry, and American companies have a strong interest in countries that can advance rather than boycott cloud computing policies," he said. "Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance, said Robert Hareman.

The report also notes that massive data accumulation in large data centers has also created "new, highly attractive targets" for cyber attacks, and that law enforcement and cloud service providers have the right tools to deal with intrusions. Australia, France, Germany and Japan scored very high points in the Cyber Crime Survey, with Canada, China, South Korea, Russia and Vietnam getting lower scores. The biggest improvement in the country is Brazil, which, after a long investigation, eventually passed the cyber-crime law. "the report said.

The 24 countries surveyed represented 80% of the global information and communications technology industry, scoring in 7 areas, including data privacy, security, free trade, intellectual property protection, infrastructure, and support for fluent data flow promotion through industry-leading standards.

The report says China has made a modest rise this year in its assessment of new data privacy laws, and Russia has gained credibility in its accession to the World Trade Organisation. The rise in India's score reflects the country's revision of its copyright law in line with international standards.

Cloud computing ranked 13-24 (Tencent Science and technology with map)

Japan again ranked first with 84.1 points, with other developed countries with the closest score, including Australia, the United States, Germany, Singapore, France, Britain, and South Korea, scoring in the upper half of the 70 to 80 points. Singapore rose from tenth to fifth, after the country passed a new data privacy law that was praised by the Business Software Alliance for its "low interference" and balanced approach.

The United States has risen from third to second, but Germany, France and Britain have all slipped, with Italy falling four. Lehman said the EU is developing data protection regulations that could make it difficult to cross the border. "If this measure is implemented, I think you will see a further decline in the ranks of major European countries." "he said. Lehman said the US-European Free-trade agreement negotiations are expected to start June ago.

Cross-border data flows have become a focus of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a regional Free-trade agreement proposed by the US and 10 other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, to be finalized this year. As one of the TPP countries, Vietnam ranked last in this year's rating, scoring only 40.1 points.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)