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4.2 What do you think are some of the scenarios that can spur the use of cloud services in your
country?

Received responses are the following:
• The pass of the right to information bill by parliament
• Overall cost savings
• Scalability in an instance
• Flexibility to switch vendors and platforms with minimal notice without cost overruns
• Resilience and an overwhelming degree of reliability
• Resource conservation owing to workforce redundancy

• Increased operational efficiency
• Absence of wasted capacity, routine server maintenance or daily backup issues
• Data security and protection from denial of service attacks and spam
• Statutory compliance when housing and processing medical or government data
• Guaranteed uptime and SLA

• Access to the latest licensed software and infrastructure without having to pay for it entirely
• Reduced cost of Internet service
• Increased privacy and security
• Cost of bandwidth
• The cost of investment in terms of infrastructure versus the use of cloud services
• The fact that services can be accessed and used from anywhere

• For SMEs, this cuts on costs of running the business
• No need to have premises to accommodate all staff
• Efficiency and cost reduction issues can spur the use of cloud services

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