Cloud "Relevant" to 90% of Thai Companies

Now the companies have released survey results about Thailand. The study found that 90 percent of Thai organizations surveyed believe cloud computing is relevant to their company, and 32 percent already have cloud initiatives in place - up from 21 percent a year ago.An additional 40 percent of organizations said they are actively planning cloud initiatives - one of the highest rates amongst the eight Asia Pacific countries studied, according to VMware. Just in case to Thailand and Malaysia, the Cloud Maturity Index surveyed Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. Additional country results are expected to be released shortly. The index was compiled through interviews with 6,141 senior business and IT decisionmakers throughout the region, in a variety of industries, with company size ranging from fewer than 100 employees to more than 10,000.

Virtualization is CriticalIn Thailand, 74 percent of organizations said they strongly consider virtualization to be critical to enabling cloud computing, during citing their interest in virtualization for server and datacenter capabilities and potential to support business continuity and disaster recovery.

"The results from the Annual Cloud Maturity Index show that Thai organizations are increasingly looking to virtualization and cloud computing with a deeper appreciation of related business benefits," said Dr. Chawapol Jariyawiroj, country manager of VMware in Thailand. Referring exactly to a recent elephant in the room, he added, "The recent impact of the floods on business operations and employee mobility as well demonstrates the viability of virtualization-based business continuity and disaster recovery solution, and this is an upward trend that we expect to continue."

"Serious concerns over data privacy and security have led local respondents to show a strong preference for a hybrid cloud model," said Dr. Chawapol, adding that Vmware's position is "that seamless federation of information between public, private and hybrid clouds is critical to realizing the true benefits of cloud computing."

In my innovation, I weigh a number of research and social measurements into a recipe that delivers a "pound-for-pound" ranking of national ICT expenditures. This approach measures dynamism and torque - to put it more exactly than raw spending power - so tends to favor highly aggressive, developing economies. Looking at things this way, Singapore and Vietnam both exceed Thailand when it comes to the dynamism of their IT environment.Follow me on Twitter

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Roger Strukhoff holds a BA from Knox College, Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and MBA from CSU-Hayward. He won a 2009 "Stevie" American Business Award for producing the best publication in its category. He is a former Publisher at IDG and Guest Lecturer at MIT. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, nevertheless can as well be found at www.twitter.com/strukhoff