The State of Cloud Computing Around the World: Japan

Grazed from CloudTimes.org. Author: Xath Cruz.

The state of cloud computing in Japan makes for an interesting read, due to the various oddities that are present within the country with regard to the technology. For instance, the country currently comes in at first place in the BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, which is a remarkable achievement considering the fact that Japan has a track record for being a slow adopter of new, non-Japanese technology. And we all know that the Cloud was born in the Western IT landscape.

Slow Adopters of Western Technology
Japan’s slow adoption of foreign technology is made apparent by majority of Japanese businesses’ resistance against social media services such as Facebook, Mixi, Twitter, and others. Whereas other countries’ businesses have already adopted the social medium as new venue for marketing, promotion, and even profit earning, Japanese companies are still cold to the idea of using social media as part of their day to day operations. However, the good news about this is that it’s only a matter of time and they will eventually realize that they’d have to keep up or risk being overtaken by foreign businesses. This means there is a huge possibility that they will start adopting the new technology in the future, in which case a boom will happen in the industry…

The BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard
The BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard basically looks at a country’s accumulated points based on several different aspects of cloud computing and then grades countries accordingly. The factors considered in the scoring consist of legislative readiness, management of intellectual property rights, anti cybercrime laws, interoperability, international harmonization of cloud computing rules, and infrastructure and statistical indicators…

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