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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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Acision helps operators monetize IP messaging services

Amid the popularity of OTT applications such as Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook, Acision believes that messaging remains a core component in helping mobile operators to reduce operating costs and increase customer experience.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 10-Oct-2012

Parallels Summit presents huge opportunity in the cloud

At a time of global economic uncertainty, an unparalleled trillion-dollar blue ocean market awaits savvy movers in the SMB cloud and hosting services sectors. Parallels estimates the APAC cloud services market to grow to US$19.8 billion in 2015.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 09-Oct-2012
Making peace with the cloud and BYOD
A secure-by-design virtualized architecture, complemented with strict yet flexible control over access and tailored endpoint security, allows non-standard, unmanaged devices into the environment while maintaining the protection of sensitive data.
by: Kurt Roemer, Citrix 09-Oct-2012

Shopping portal Global Blue pioneers BI in the cloud

Since deploying cloud-based BI three years ago, Global Blue now runs 40% of its business using business analytics from its data warehouse. It also gets a clear view of how individual components of the organization are performing.
by: Emily Chia, Enterprise Innovation 03-Oct-2012
US schools migrate data to cloud for big savings
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's server consolidation exercise will save local schools US$10,000-$15,000 a year, funds that can be spent on other education programs. The state also expects to save about US$1,000,000 annually on support services.
by: eGov Innovation editors 03-Oct-2012

RSA: Top capabilities for the next-gen cloud

Identity management will remain a key capability for cloud adopters in the forseeable future. The simple reason is that a notion of trust has to be at the center of managing many-to-many relationships in the cloud, says Eddie Schwartz, CISO of RSA.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 03-Oct-2012
Gartner explains 5 misconceptions about the private cloud
Private cloud is being driven by the rapid penetration of virtualization and virtualization management, the growth of cloud computing offerings and pressure to deliver IT faster and cheaper. IT shops need to stay away from the hype, but focus on driving business values.
by: SMBWorld Asia editors 03-Oct-2012

Oracle focuses on cloud with future Java

Oracle’s Java Development team leaders outlined plans for the future of the Java platform at this week’s JavaOne Conference 2012 in San Francisco. Plans covered portability between platforms, vendors, and even cloud-to-cloud portability.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 02-Oct-2012
Infor apps run on Red Hat middleware with MySQL, MariaDB
Business application software provider, Infor, is making its ERP suite available on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions under a global partnership.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 02-Oct-2012
CA extends cross-platform middleware with Nastel
CA Technologies will distribute and resell Nastel Technologies’ AutoPilot middleware infrastructure monitoring and management globally under a recent agreement.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 02-Oct-2012