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Cloud adoption inevitable in both public, private sector, analysts say

Deni Ghifari (The Jakarta Post)
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Mon, September 5, 2022

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loud technology has been around for some time and is used by established enterprises and large government agencies in Indonesia, but its adoption by smaller public institutions and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) has been slow.

The United Nations’ 2020 E-Government Development Index places Indonesia in the early stages of cloud adoption, ranking it 88th out of 193 countries, and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has found that only 30 percent of 169 public institutions surveyed used cloud computing.

“Cost efficiency, speed, agility, flexibility and scalability are among the benefits cloud computing offers,” CSIS researcher Deni Friawan said on Aug. 23 at an event for the survey’s publication.

IBM Asia-Pacific general manager Paul Burton, whose company offers cloud tech in Indonesia, said one of the advantages of cloud computing was that users could scale up capacity instantly with a few keystrokes instead of beefing up their local infrastructure in a process that might take weeks.

“With hybrid cloud, you can have burst capacity when you need it, so you don't have to buy and install a bunch of capacity to sit idle most of the time. That level of automation is what ultimately reduces costs yet maintains service levels,” Burton said, emphasizing the benefits of the hybrid cloud model that combines the use of on-premise data centers with cloud computing.

Read also: Executive Column: Lack of tech skills holding back growth -- IBM vows to help out

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