Business News Americas | January 4, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Chilean SMEs and corporations are “eager” to adopt cloud computing, enabling them to see savings in total cost of ownership and energy expenses, Jose Ignacio Rio, product and presales manager for Chile with Japanese telecoms corporation NEC, told BNamericas.
According to Rio, companies can save 40% in total cost of ownership by investing in thin clients compared with an equivalent suite of traditional computers, and can save 70% in energy costs given that a thin client consumes some 25-30W compared with 250W for a traditional PC.
“I’d say there is not only receptiveness [to this technology in Chile], there is an eagerness to adopt it. The market wants it, it needs it, it craves it. The market knows what it is. It has found out that the way to be competitive is incorporating the latest technology in operations,” Rio said.
The reasons for adopting cloud computing differ for SMEs and large companies. For SMEs, the benefit of cloud computing is cost; it enables SMEs to access world class software in an on-demand format or for an accessible monthly fee.
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