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Japan govt plots private cloud
Japan’s government is planning to build a private cloud environment that could eventually host all Japanese government software.
Dubbed the Kasumigaseki Cloud, the initiative is part of a larger government project called the Digital Japan Creation Project that aims to help spur economic recovery in Japan through aggressive IT investment.
That larger project aims to generate tens of billions of dollars worth of new IT market revenue and create 300,000 to 400,000 new jobs within three years.
It will also more than double the size of the IT market in Japan by 2020 by investing in research and development of promising new technologies, increasing support of IT education, encouraging green IT, building more ubiquitous broadband links, and taking other steps, including the creation of Japan’s mega-private cloud.
“Accelerating the use of [communications and technology] nationwide will require the government to take the initiative in implementing measures,” the Japanese government said in a document outlining the Digital Japan Creation Project.
The Kasumigaseki Cloud will be deployed in stages through 2015 and aims to cut development and operating costs while also improving performance. The cloud will require Japan to create new platforms for shared services and consolidate hardware, including the possible building of new data centers.
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