Flying to the Cloud : Governments Seek Gains from Cloud Computing
The transition to cloud computing broadly means shifting programs and data from personal or office hardware to shared hardware that many individuals and organizations access over the Internet. That migration is happening fast. By 2019, according to...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/881601490902321138/Flying-to-the-cloud-governments-seek-gains-from-cloud-computing http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26362 |
| Summary: | The transition to cloud computing
broadly means shifting programs and data from personal or
office hardware to shared hardware that many individuals and
organizations access over the Internet. That migration is
happening fast. By 2019, according to the information
technology company Cisco, 83 percent of all global data
center traffic will come from cloud services. And the
profitability of the cloud services unit of Amazon, the
leader in the worldwide cloud computing market, has been
growing strongly. Relative to conventional computing, the
cloud can offer more efficiency, scalability, and flexible
real-time service to employees, customers, and citizens.
Cloud computing, a fast-growing business, appeals to
governments that want to provide more accessible, secure,
and cost-effective public services. However, putting
government data in the cloud—that is, on remote,
Internet-connected devices owned by another, typically
private, organization—poses the question of readiness to
handle issues that are inherent in the technology, including
security, dependability, and the scope of control that might
be exercised by the owner of the cloud hardware and the
Internet service provider. The World Bank’s Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) unit in collaboration with
Accenture Consulting, recently developed a toolkit that can
assess government readiness for cloud migration. It is
conducting pilot studies to improve and refine the ability
of the toolkit to provide recommendations to interested
national policy makers and digital leaders. |
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