Cloud is a paradigm, not a place

May 19, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from MIS-Asia. Author: Steven Yong.

Today’s cloud computing pace is moving at an accelerated rate – we see a shift in traditional computing that gives businesses on-demand access to a variety of software and services while giving IT a shared pool of configurable computing resources at the platform, infrastructure and application layers. When done right, cloud computing helps businesses do more – tapping into the power of massive datacentres and IT services without having to build, manage or maintain them.

In Malaysia, deploying cloud-based ICT solutions has become the most important trend and is expected to reach about US$900 million by 2020. The cloud market in Malaysia is growing at a rapid pace, with the local government driving the development of a cloud computing ecosystem as a strategic initiative to promote MSC Malaysia while simultaneously equipping organisations with cloud capabilities to accelerate the nation’s development into a fully innovative digital economy…

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