Australia and NZ fall behind in cloud race

Grazed from The Register. Author: Natalie Apostolou.

Australia and New Zealand’s limited international connectivity has cast a shadow over both market’s cloud computing competitiveness against their Asian neighbours. According to the Cloud Readiness Index (CRI), an annual study produced by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), Australia has slipped three positions in the rankings due to its perceived limited international bandwidth, where it ranked second last.

While Australia scores highly in data privacy and data sovereignty its overall competitiveness in the cloud stakes sees it trail Japan, which secured top ranking followed by Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore Taiwan and New Zealand…

The report recommended that due to the limited availability of offshore capacity, the Australian government should consider subsidies, tax credits or other incentives to increase connectivity to the rest of the region…

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