(Allabouttechwiki) – Cloud computing has lately gained a good reputation in the state sector of the economy, especially among administrative agencies and other official outfits that deliver social services to citizens and residents in a country, for its amazing potential to handle with ease and efficiency enormous, if not colossal, amounts of data and information that usually overwhelmingly inundate governments’ departments.
This efficiency and productiveness effected by cloud computing allows governments to keep a close eye, in a consistent and coherent manner, on their countless, various everyday activities, so that any wrongdoing, misconduct and malpractice, not least corruption, bribery and abuse of official position, can be promptly brought to surface and satisfactorily dealt with; and also makes it more possible than ever for governments to successfully cope with large-scale national emergencies, which are not at all rare events, especially at a time like now when many reckon man-made climate change is frequently bringing about freaky natural phenomena (such as hurricanes, cyclones, unusual flooding, etc.,) not to mention various other natural disasters that have been regularly inflicting themselves on humanity ever since the beginning of time, such as large earthquakes that can trigger massive tsunamis or big volcano eruptions; and national emergencies are of course not in any way confined to the wrath of Mother Nature, but also logically include human doings such as wars, civil strives, terrorist attacks, infrastructure breakdowns, etc.; and all of these misfortunes could very well result in governments’ IT systems being destroyed, or at least severely malfunctioning for substantial periods of time.
Cloud computing is in fact excellently apt in preventing any major discontinuation of IT services and any dreaded loss of governments’ data, particularly in disasters that would otherwise absolutely shut down, or at least gravely handicap, conventional IT infrastructures; as cloud computing, by nature, consists of multiple (meaning more than one) self-sufficient, separate data-storage and data-processing premises and facilities which can certainly be located far away from one another, completely sheltered from any calamities that may happen in other places; and hence cloud computing is extremely conducive to one-hundred-percent data-backup and total recovery of information that may have only been dreamed of in the previous tech age; as a class of sophisticated, technically impressive technologies known as network virtualization, rooted in cloud computing, has promisingly emerged to propitiously take on these tasks, while also conveniently making data transfers among data centers seamlessly easy, or even harmonizing their operations, without compromising anything on their structural independence, when necessary.
Therefore, cloud computing does appear to be a great boon to national governments the world over, not least because of the fact that it is able to assist them a great deal in providing and ensuring national security.
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