Quick broadband and cloud computing could lay the podium for better innovation through the export of IP and services, says the CEO of Gen-i’s Australasian, Chris Quin.

According to him, this could ultimately lead to an improvement in the GDP of New Zealand but careful investment in fibre-based communications infrastructure will not be sufficient.

“I firmly believe that exporting intellectual property represents the best opportunity for New Zealand to grow its GDP. This will enable us to earn valuable export revenues from our unique expertise and knowledge,” says Quin.

He confirms that fibre investment will help to earn more GDP. Expertise, ideas and services are the intellectual property which is being delivered over the fibre that counts.

The combination of super fast connectivity and cloud computing will make easy export of local knowledge.

Cloud-based proposals will be the future marketplaces, where kiwi expertise can become communal with the world on an as-a-service basis.

Gen-i itself has been trying to develop a plan, which will focus on the contribution of repeatable and scalable ICT services supplied through a utility model.

Nevertheless, it says that it will still suggest system integration that helps to meet more complex client needs.

The Company started its ReadyCloud server in April, and is planning to offer two more infrastructure as-a-service offerings, which are ReadyCloud Storage and ReadyCloud Backup.