Who’s the number one cloud computing nation?
March 20, 2013
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.
The BSA has put together a report which ranks the top 20 countries worldwide in terms of cloud readiness, and it may not be a surprise as to which nation is at the summit… Japan is the highest ranked cloud computing nation worldwide, according to research published by BSA: Software Alliance. In its 2013 BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, the Alliance aims to “provide a platform for discussion between policymakers and providers of cloud offerings, with a view toward developing an internationally harmonised regime of laws and regulations relevant to cloud computing.”
In other words, the raw figures perhaps are not the be all and end all. But the overall statistics, taking into account such areas as data privacy, security and ICT readiness among others, still make interesting reading. Japan is the most cloud-oriented nation by some distance according to the study, scoring 84.1 overall. The rest of the top five were very closely matched, with Australia (79.9) and the United States (79.7) ahead of Germany (79.1) and Singapore (78.5), who climbed five places compared to last year’s study…
The remainder of the top 10 comprised France, the United Kingdom, Korea, Canada and Italy; Canada jumped three places from 2012’s results whilst Italy dropped four positions. Aside from this, the individual scores between countries on cloud pain points proved most interesting. In line with its rise up the league tables, Singapore has the most IT-ready infrastructure globally, with its score of 22.9 edging out the US (22.2) and Korea (21.9)…
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