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Singapore is second most cloud ready country in Asia-Pacific
Broadband quality, data privacy and pro-business regime makes Singapore the second most cloud ready country in the Apac region
Singapore has jumped two places on the Asia Cloud Computing Association’s (ACCA) Cloud Readiness Index (CRI) 2016, to become the second most cloud ready country in the Asia-Pacific (Apac).
It beat competition on the quality of broadband, regulatory environment and protection of intellectual property. The parameter where it has fallen behind is in freedom of information, where its score of 6.0 dropped.
Malaysia leads the way
“According to the study, Malaysia has the best cyber security measures in place in the region. It scored poorly on connectivity and datacentre risk, but showed improvement on eight of the 10 parameters covered in the CRI.”
Gap in cloud readiness
“The top performers are now reaping the benefits of multi-year national digitisation plans, including plans for government [G-Cloud], broadband and other connectivity roll outs.”
“Another factor is government support, which plays an important role in adoption of cloud computing. Accreditation of cloud computing would certainly help in adoption of cloud computing in any country.”
Read more about cloud computing in the Asean region
- IoT deployments are in their early stages in the Asean region, but experts predict that, as take-up of IoT apps increases, it will have a big impact on IT infrastructures in the region.
- Businesses in Asean countries are slower to harness cloud computing than in other regions – but could overtake them, with much less legacy IT to deal with.
- While developed economies such as Singapore are emulating the rapid take-up of other Asian nations, many other Asean organsiations are taking longer.



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