The Saviour of Ireland

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The cloud computing industry can be the next IFSC in Ireland if the correct policies to deliver it are implemented, a report says.

The cloud computing industry can be the next IFSC in Ireland if the incoming government moves quickly to implement the correct policies to deliver it, according to a new report.

Ireland has the chance to create jobs and help restore competitiveness if it moves quickly to establish itself as a global cloud computing centre of excellence, the report states.

The report, commissioned by Microsoft Ireland and compiled by Goodbody Economic Consultant, says that cloud computing is an evolving industry that has the potential to create ā‚¬9.5 billion in annual sales by 2014 and generate 8,600 jobs. The cloud computing market is estimated to be worth ā‚¬40 billion by 2014.

Cloud computing moves technology infrastructure into data centres where information is managed, secured and delivered to users as and when they need it. Users of the site like Hotmail and YouTube use an application that runs on a remote server and which they access as and when they need it and from a personal computer or a smartphone.

Todayā€™s report also says that early adoption of cloud computing will take costs of ā‚¬0.5 billion out of Irish businesses every year.

The technology can also offer major benefits to the public sector as it can deliver major productivity gains and lower the costs of delivery as well as improving the quality of services for people.

ā€˜Cloud computing will revolutionise technology the way that the internet did,ā€™ commented Microsoft Irelandā€™s managing director Paul Rellis.

ā€˜As this global industry is in its infancy, Ireland has a real opportunity to pioneer its adoption to create new jobs, new businesses and enhance our competitiveness while attracting foreign direct investment and creating new export markets,ā€™ he added.

ā€˜If the correct steps are taken now, Ireland could be home to the next Facebook or Salesforce.com. However, the race is on globally and if we do not act immediately, the opportunity will be lost,ā€™ he said.

Any of the tech savvy know much about cloud, only ever really scratched the surface of it in third levelā€¦but it looks as though it will be the next big thingā€¦presume broadband woud need a complete overhaul here for this to come about

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Typo in the title

should be saviourā€¦

Rocko please amend when you have a chance

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I wouldnā€™t really be a fan cloud computing as it could make the role of many on site IT Managers redundant.

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nice to see you thinking of your boss thereā€¦

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:smiley:

Are you working in the ā€œcloud computingā€ sector yourself?

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no but presume the stuff I am working on will go that way in the medium term, but mentioned it in the interview a few months ago and nearly came a cropperā€¦sure i wouldnā€™t have much of a clue about it and was trying to sound important

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Yes, I fell into a similar trap before when some half arsed research on my part resulted in me saying I had used one of the companies services, when in fact the service was only ever launched in the US and was not available in Ireland.

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Exactly, makes it easy to move work out and maintain apps etc at a nice low cost location.

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Tough shit Runty.

You need to morph yourself from being an IT admin to being a Service Operations guy in a Data Centre.
Those guys have all the stroke these days. Seriously.

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I.T is dead in the waterā€¦I.S is where it is at

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Iā€™m sure itā€™ll happen eventually,ā€¦ but probably not as soon as they are saying.

We have a lot of offshore resources accessing our site via Citrix. Lots of problems with remote support. They really couldnā€™t do it without having us onsite for now.

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Yes, but what happens when a PA spills coffee on her keyboard?
Who do they turn to then?

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Whatā€™s all this crap about going to save the country incase ye havenā€™t noticed the agricultural sector is on the middle of saving the county bur we donā€™t go on about it Valuable assets like the Dunph, Kinvarraā€™s passion, myself and a few other lads here are out producing exports.

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Agriculture nearly made shit of my car last week

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Just keep back out of the way of the Tractor/ Jeep/Cows itā€™s in the national interest

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Well when herds of limousine calves take to walking the roads without reflective jackets on then itā€™s going to lead to problems.

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Obviously the man was grazing the sides of the road for the local council, these are stringent time runt, your cooperation and patients is appreciated

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:smiley:

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:lol:

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The cost of companies running their own data centres are pretty prohibitive at the moment.Ireland I guess is English speaking, have IT literate people, pretty cheap at the moment etc . Canā€™t imagine how Ireland could compete with the likes of Malaysia though really. We were looking at outsourcing storage for the client here, all the big vendors HP etc have pay as you consume models now. But there is the whole CAPEX v OPEX argument and a host of others concerns.

Think the whole infrastructure as a service model has a bit to go to be honest. The issue strategically why you would want to give a vendor that level of control over a critical
part of your business is a big one for me.

Iā€™m not sure Ireland with itā€™s high cost of electricity and diabolical broadband infrastructure is in the best place to capitalize on it anyway.