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THE INVESTOR
March 29, 2024

Industrials

Korean firms rank low in utilizing cloud service

  • PUBLISHED :October 31, 2017 - 09:51
  • UPDATED :October 31, 2017 - 09:51
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[THE INVESTOR] Korean companies rank in the bottom tier in utilizing cloud service, a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development showed on Oct. 31.

An OECD survey of 33 member states in 2016 placed Korea at 27th, with the service use of 12.9 percent. Hungary (12.2 percent), Turkey (10.3 percent), Greece (9.2 percent), Mexico (9.1 percent), Latvia (8.4 percent) and Poland (8.2 percent) ranked below Korea.

Amazon.com currently dominates the country’s corporate cloud service market, having landed in Korea with its Amazon Web Service in 2012. Other local and foreign companies, including Microsoft, Google, KT and Naver, compete for the remainder.

Sweden topped the list for its corporate use of a cloud network with 48.2 percent. Japan and Brazil followed with 44.6 percent each, Iceland with 43.1 percent and Denmark with 41.6 percent.

Korea had announced steps in November 2015 to spread the use of cloud computing, pledging to change regulations to make the platform more readily available and friendly to public institutions, and medical and education communities.

By Alex Lee and newswires (alexlee@heraldcorp.com)


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