{"id":4506,"date":"2012-11-07T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/nov\/07\/which-asia-pacific-country-knows-most-about-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:12:29","slug":"which-asia-pacific-country-knows-the-most-about-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/which-asia-pacific-country-knows-the-most-about-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Asia Pacific country knows the most about the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual VMware Cloud Index survey has shone light on trends in Asia Pacific cloud computing, including which was the most knowledgeable nation.<\/p>\n<p>The research surveyed 6,500 senior IT workers across the Asia Pacific region in 11 countries, including Australia, China, India, Japan and Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it appeared Singapore and Hong Kong were top of the class. 82% of respondents in Singapore claimed they had a strong knowledge of the cloud, with nine out of ten people in Hong Kong having a strong knowledge of virtualisation.<\/p>\n<p>The key takeaways from the research included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three quarters of those surveyed were either in the cloud or planning to go there<\/li>\n<li>Data privacy was the biggest barrier to cloud computing, ahead of security<\/li>\n<li>Most companies see cloud as having multiple benefits, with optimising existing IT management the most important<\/li>\n<li>71% of respondents believe cloud computing has made their job less complex &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual VMware Cloud Index survey has shone light on trends in Asia Pacific cloud computing, including which was the most knowledgeable nation.<br \/>\nThe research surveyed 6,500 senior IT workers across the Asia Pacific region in 11 countries, inclu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}