Comments on: TREND 5: Cloud Computing http://nextleap.wordpress.com COMPETITIVE IRELAND IN THE DIGITAL ERA Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:10:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: An Irish-based EMEA Digital Legal Services Centre? « The Next Leap http://nextleap.wordpress.com/trend-5-cloud-computing/#comment-102 An Irish-based EMEA Digital Legal Services Centre? « The Next Leap Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:05:58 +0000 http://nextleap.wordpress.com/?page_id=58#comment-102 [...] in Trend 4 is that this could focus on payments and rights clearance for digital content, but as Trend 5 shows, the scope might be broader. This means that a digital legal services centre may be directly [...] [...] in Trend 4 is that this could focus on payments and rights clearance for digital content, but as Trend 5 shows, the scope might be broader. This means that a digital legal services centre may be directly [...]

]]> By: J Doyle http://nextleap.wordpress.com/trend-5-cloud-computing/#comment-51 J Doyle Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:54:39 +0000 http://nextleap.wordpress.com/?page_id=58#comment-51 Cloud computing and hosted applications and remote storage are all major parts of "new IT ecosystems" and Ireland should certainly try to get involved. I remember well, mind, the early ASPs, in the days when Dublin was ringed with data centres, some quite palatial (the contents of many would now fit in one room), and we need to ensure we plan any such adventures well. Yes, SAAS and S+S have achieved some reasonable level of acceptance, but the market is by no means secure. This is an area where a "branding" of Ireland could help, the more so as we are a quiet, physically, politically and (really, despite everything) econmically stable place. The idea on localisation is also excellent, and could be pioneered by multinational branches in Ireland, helping to keep them here, and our colleges and their enterprise and / or incubator arms. Cloud computing and hosted applications and remote storage are all major parts of “new IT ecosystems” and Ireland should certainly try to get involved. I remember well, mind, the early ASPs, in the days when Dublin was ringed with data centres, some quite palatial (the contents of many would now fit in one room), and we need to ensure we plan any such adventures well. Yes, SAAS and S+S have achieved some reasonable level of acceptance, but the market is by no means secure. This is an area where a “branding” of Ireland could help, the more so as we are a quiet, physically, politically and (really, despite everything) econmically stable place.

The idea on localisation is also excellent, and could be pioneered by multinational branches in Ireland, helping to keep them here, and our colleges and their enterprise and / or incubator arms.

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