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ACCA launches vendor-neutral Cloud Assessment Tool

Powerful online tool to help enterprises choose the most suitable cloud service provider

The Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) today launched the online version of its  Cloud Assessment Tool, a powerful new tool designed to help businesses choose the most suitable cloud provider.

The Cloud Assessment Tool (CAT) provides a standard framework that allows IT users to measure their requirements against vendor offerings.

Business Software Alliance (BSA), the global industry association, has just issued its annual Global Cloud Computing Scorecard. Although it applies a different methodology and covers fewer countries in Asia, its findings align well with ACCA’s 2012 Cloud Readiness Index (CRI).

Of the ten Asian countries BSA covers, it ranks Japan first, as did the CRI. Apart from reversing the positions of Australia and Korea, it also put the other countries in the same order (see chart below).