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ISACA: 5 cloud governance questions BoDs must ask

ISACA issues in a white paper five key questions that the board of directors must ask to ensure consistent practices to maximize value and manage risk of cloud computing.
Asia Cloud Forum editors 03-May-2013

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Cisco: Global cloud traffic to grow six-fold by 2016
By 2016, Asia Pacific will be the region that generates the most cloud traffic, overtaking the current top contributor to cloud traffic North America, according to the second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2011-2016).
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 05-Nov-2012

From COBOL to cloud: Modernizing apps

Improved resource management, greater business agility, and lower cost of IT are certainly value propositions of cloud computing that resonate with business. However, many of today’s businesses still rely on the unique characteristics inherent in their business software applications.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 02-Nov-2012

Hybrid clouds: Asia Pacific enterprises' secret weapon?

A NTT Communications-commissioned IDC survey sees 31% of APAC IT decision makers responding that they plan to implement clouds in the next 12 months, 26% looking to pilot-test cloud projects, and 28% having implemented cloud in one or more locations.
by: Taylor Man, NTT Com Asia/HKNet 31-Oct-2012

NetSuite SaaS melds e-commerce, core biz apps

NetSuite integrates e-commerce and business software in a single application as more organizations with on-premise solutions move to the cloud. The SaaS provider counts Groupon, Zalora and Rebonz.com as well as Philippine-based Jollibee Foods Corp among its customers.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 31-Oct-2012

Reval SaaS tackles dynamic treasury and risk management

Liquidity and funding risk may be a top concern for Asian treasury professionals dissatisfied with their ability to forecast their cash positions but only 7.5% of the professionals polled by Reval identified operational risk an area worth their attention.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 30-Oct-2012

From COBOL to cloud: The race for talent

Micro Focus, a leader in the COBOL application base, is seeing developers using its technology beginning to examine the possibilities of cloud application development and deployment for their businesses.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 30-Oct-2012
Singapore infocomm award winners leverage cloud
This year’s Singapore National Infocomm Awards nominations in the category of Most Innovative Infocomm Product/Service witnessed many innovative tech start-ups leveraging cloud, data analytics, near field communication and smart mobility.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 30-Oct-2012
IBM: Big data drives PaaS adoption
The IBM Center for Applied Insights has found that the need to streamline application development amid big data, increasing complexity and higher pace of innovation, is driving demand for PaaS.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Oct-2012
Nice adds IBM software to scale up analytics
Nice Systems has integrated analytics capabilities that will enable organizations to leverage, in real time, big data gathered from customer interactions across voice, e-mail, chat and web.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Oct-2012
Singapore, Bhutan tie up in ICT capability building
Singapore and Bhutan have inked a Memorandum of Understanding in infocomm technology that will pave the way for developing manpower and expertise and build on existing ICT collaborations.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 22-Oct-2012