At the launch of IBM Cloud Labs in Singapore on May 4th, Khoong Hock Yun, Assistant CEO, Infrastructure and Services Development Group, IDA, outlined the rationale behind the initiative: “In Cloud Computing, we have an emerging ecosystem that can be tapped into.
“500-600 Small-Medium Enterprises are already using our grid facilities. The “Software as a Service” model is ready to take off. Ultimately, we will have a spectrum of public and private clouds. Citizen outreach initiatives could occupy a public cloud and different ministries could have their own clouds according to their requirements.”
The IDA’s plan is to attract IT service providers and technology firms to Singapore. This will not only provide revenue, but keep local firms and institutes of higher learning abreast with all issues related to Cloud Computing.
The initiative seeks to bridge the gap between Research & Development and the real world, and to create a platform to link innovation with implementation so that the results of abstract research can be harnessed. The initiative is a part of the 10-year “Intelligent Nation 2015” (iN2015) Masterplan for Singapore led by the IDA.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Rahul Joshi
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 05.05.2010
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