But the EU government as a whole has been making a push for cloud migration, citing the opportunity for improvements in efficiency, and, according to the EU Observer, the streamlining of health services, making it easier for doctors to access patient records.
"A cloud could be used to store all the health data of an individual, including recent prescriptions, ailments, treatments, operations, allergies and blood type," Honor Mahony wrote for the publications. "The person's data would then be instantly accessible if they suddenly had to be treated abroad or if they moved house and registered with a different doctor."
While several health organisations have migrated data storage such as patient records to the cloud for similar reasons, the benefits of the cloud have also appealed to a wider swathe of businesses, signalling a possible massive migration of users to cloud computing in coming years.
This possibility has been championed by many IT experts, as well as tech analysts and executives around the world.
"This is as big as going over to PCs in the seventies," Microsoft vice president for European Affairs John Vassallo told the EU Observer.
Vassallo indicated the strengths of the cloud included scalability at the drop of a hat, meaning a company's servers could accommodate sudden rushes of traffic without risking downtime.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Jason Morton
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