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Brazil should offer incentives to help cloud computing providers

Cloud-computing service providers should install their infrastructure close to their clients to mitigate risks, said Gartner VP Gene Phifer, adding that as cloud service providers deploy that strategy, they will want to have their infrastructure throughout the world, including Brazil. As such, “the Brazilian government should offer financial incentives to receive these firms,” said Phifer.

In Phifer’s opinion, the country offers good economy and political environments, which are attractive to cloud providers. However, it may demand investments for government, for instance increasing electricity capacity. “Some cloud providers are working to have their own power generation, so they might not need to use traditional ones.”

The economy’s growth is attractive to many vendors, but the government should establish incentives such as taxes breaks and improving the workforce to further entice providers to locate in the country. “Countries need to be business friendly and there are a lot of things they can do.”

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Roberta Prescott
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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.