Singapore claims highest understanding of cloud in APAC

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jamie Yap.

Companies in Singapore are the most confident of their knowledge about cloud computing across the Asia-Pacific region, thanks to the strong push and lead by the government for enterprise cloud adoption and national efforts to attract service providers to make datacenter investments in the country. According to the VMware Cloud Index 2012 report, 82 percent of Singapore respondents said they believed they had a strong understanding of cloud computing, higher than the regional average of 75 percent, said Michael Barnes, vice president and research director of Forrester Research, which conducted the study.

Respondents who believe they strongly understand cloud
1. Singapore: 82%
2. Korea: 80%
3. India: 79%
4. Australia: 72%
5. Hong Kong: 74%
6. Taiwan: 72%
7. China: 72%
8. Thailand: 70%
9. Indonesia: 70%
10. Malaysia: 66%

Source: VMware Cloud Index 2012…

This was also the first time Singapore came out tops in this category, edging out Australia which held the position over the last two years, he added during a media briefing here Wednesday to unveil the results of the online survey. Commissioned by VMware, the annual study, now in its third run, was done in September this year. A total of 4, 954 senior IT practitioners in 10 economies across Asia-Pacific were surveyed: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Japan was surveyed separately by another market research firm, ITR…

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