Cloud Computing Gives Emerging Markets a Lift

Cloud computing offer businesses and individual access to advanced IT infrastructures and applications that might otherwise be out of their reach. Cloud computing can be applied to a range of areas, including e-commerce, education, healthcare, governance, telecommuting, community building, and emergency response. Taiwan, China, and India are making huge investments in cloud computing and are looking for support in the form of foreign investments in cloud computing services and joint projects with other nations. Multinational companies are establishing cloud and data centers and promoting clouds in emerging regions, adopting unique approaches to address the regions' specific needs. To successfully use and benefit from clouds, an enterprise must prepare itself strategically, culturally, and organizationally, taking a holistic view of cloud computing. Future Group, India's largest retailer, is also using cloud computing to support data warehousing and analytics for its chains of retail stores.