parties involved in the educational
process. The same process was
implemented in Chile, where the
Department of Education decided
to publish the results of the SIMCE
examinations, which measure
teaching quality in schools around
the country.
This is an example of the impact of the Cloud, which we will
see exponentially grow during
this decade.
We will also see a similar
impact on companies and
businesses. Companies of all sizes,
particularly small companies,
will adopt some form of cloud
computing and cloud services,
as clear acknowledgement that
these new technologies can better
position them in a competitive
environment. A survey conducted
by the Harvard Business Review
Analytic Services shows that
85 percent of the businesses
interviewed will use the Cloud
moderately or extensively in the
next three years. Those surveyed,
around 1,500 companies, stated
that the main benefits of this
form of computing are the
ability to increase the speed and
flexibility of their businesses
and the reduction of costs, which
result in higher levels of growth,
innovation and collaboration. This
will promote accelerated levels of
technological adoption.
We are witnessing an increasing
number of success stories from
companies that have placed
themselves on the map by
becoming more productive and
competitive through the use of
this type of computing, and that
are exploiting the new features
that make them more flexible,
agile and practical when it comes
to solving business problems
or taking advantage of new
opportunities.
The Cloud has given young peo-
ple the possibility of creating their
own opportunities. An example of
this, which is becoming increas-
ingly common, is students who
have recently graduated from col-
lege and who have successfully cre-
ated their own companies by using
technology. Such is the case of the
young Argentineans from “ 3 Mel-
ons” who develop videogames on
the Cloud and who were able to
successfully incorporate an online
entertainment company. This con-
stitutes yet another example of the
Latin America will be
witnessing the creation
of 700,000 new jobs and
6,000 new companies
between 2009 and 2013
thanks to the Cloud.
decade that we will be living in
Latin America.
If we focus on students, who are
fundamental to every country’s
economic development, we can
see how the Cloud allows them
and the educational institutions
they represent to use services and
resources which, otherwise, would
be too expensive or complex to
implement. Nowadays, large
servers at universities can be
replaced at a fraction of what it
used to cost by accessing the Web
and the Cloud through the latest
Internet browsers. Today, entities
and companies only have to pay a
few dollars per month per user to
have access to complex functions
that are performed by a data center
somewhere in the Cloud.
In this same manner, Cloud
computing offers easy access to
large network and data systems
for small companies, entities
and governments; something
which was only available to large
corporations in the past. Smaller
companies can now obtain cost-
benefit ratios which are 25 times
greater than the investment,
according to a study done by Booz
Allen Hamilton.
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