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Cloud association to examine Asia’s cloud readiness

By Xinghui Guo | 9 July 2011

The Asia Cloud Computing Association (Asia Cloud), an organisation working towards driving cloud adoption in Asia, is launching a “Cloud Readiness Index” meant to track Asia’s progress towards cloud through conditions and criteria the organisation has identified as critical for successful implementation and uptake.

According to Per Dahlberg, Chief Executive Officer of Asia Cloud, this index will analyse 10 key attributes critical to the deployment and use of cloud across 14 countries—China, Australia, Hong Hong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam—that are “representative of the region”.

The 10 conditions (listed below) can help governments discuss cloud issues and move forward on them, said Dahlberg.

“Our long-term goal is to see how to get different policy makers to regularise cloud policy environment, to harmonise it,” Dahlberg told FutureGov Asia Pacific.

Asia Cloud is also launching a Cloud Map on its website. A graphical illustration of the current state of the cloud debate, this map will follow and visualise discussions, talk about regulatory challenges and list out opinion leaders and followers. This map will leverage semantic mining technology to include the pulse of the cloud debate across the internet including views and topics from Twitter and blogs.

Asia Cloud, the self-regulatory organisation, aims to come up (along with analysts, experts and governments) with a set of useful tools for the industry and promote a set of governance and guidelines, said Dahlberg.

The attributes that comprise the first release of the index include:

Regulatory conditions

International connectivity

Data protection policy

Broadband quality

Government prioritisation

Power grid quality

Internet filtering

Business efficiency index

Global risk

ICT development

These 10 attributes are thought to all affect how cloud computing products and services can be offered, delivered and consumed by the market.

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