Brazil's poor record in the promotion of innovation and in the adoption of
new technologies is not news. In addition, a heavy tax burden, which may have
helped weather the crisis in 2008, is, however, a major obstacle to
entrepreneurship. These factors, combined with the lack of investments in
infrastructure, have made a victim of the local Internet industry - and of
Cloud Computing. Nevertheless, the outlook for Cloud Computing in Brazil is
surprisingly promising.
There is significant pent-up demand in the industry as a whole still.
According to Registro.br, Brazil has about 2 million active domains. That is
less than what several U.S. players feature individually; for instance, 1&1
alone accounts for 2.6 million domains according to webhosting.info. With a
population that is roughly two thirds that of the U.S., this difference is
due to a significantly lower pene... (more)