Cloud usage shooting up in Asia Pacific
Cloud usage shooting up in Asia Pacific
Businesses across Asia Pacific are currently embarking on a “rapid cloud take-up,” according to technology experts in the field.
Cloud-based applications are rapidly becoming the “service mode of choice for many big Australian businesses,” science and technology correspondent Jake Sturmer reported for Radio Australia.
Almost half of businesses in the country are now making use of the technology in some form. Enticed by the lack of computers and cables taking up space in the office, increasing numbers of businesses are now enjoying the myriad benefits that come from the cloud including easily accessible and reliably stored information, cost effectiveness and flexible, efficient working.
While the cloud market was worth £576 million in 2012, analysts Frost & Sullivan estimate that the Australian cloud industry will grow to around £2 billion by 2016.
Andrew Milroy, Frost & Sullivan’s information and communications technology vice president told Radio Australia that the country was currently leading corporate cloud adoption in the Asia-Pacific region, but that other countries were snapping at its heels.
“Almost a third of businesses in the Asia-Pacific use cloud computing today. In Australia, 43 per cent of businesses have adopted cloud computing,” Mr Milroy confirmed.
Meanwhile, in New Zealand, uptake of the cloud is happening fast too, with last week's well-attended cloud session at the NZ Oracle User Group conference in the country's capital, Wellington, proving. Making use of the cloud will be "beneficial" for businesses across New Zealand, experts said at the event, as it gives the ICT department a "means of concentrating on the unique aspects of the company’s business – their market differentiators."
Doug Hughes, vice president responsible for the fusion cloud services in Asia-Pacific for Oracle - the business software and hardware systems company - told delegates at the conference, which was reported upon by Computer World: "Changing the relationship between business and ICT as a result of the rise of cloud can be a massive positive."
Businesses looking to move services into the cloud, should evaluate the performance of their existing network and consider setting up a leased line or MPLS network.
