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Cloud architecture analyzed

Deciding just which components to include in a cloud implementation plays a crucial role in determining how best the cloud will serve the organization's needs.
Asia Cloud Forum editors 17-Apr-2013

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Digging the big data goldmine

In the cloud, data is provisioned and spread across multiple sites, allowing it to sit closer to the users, speeding response times and boosting productivity. And, because cloud makes IT resources more efficient and IT teams more productive, enterprise resources are freed to be allocated elsewhere.
by: Gabriel Leung, EMC Hong Kong and Macau 21-Sep-2012
CA helps CIOs with ‘chief experience officer’ role
“CIOs have become Chief Experience Officers as the customer experience becomes an increasingly powerful weapon in today’s competitive world,” said Stephen Miles, vice president of Service Assurance for the Asia Pacific & Japan at CA Technologies.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 19-Sep-2012

Forecasting the next-gen data center design

At the Hong Kong Data Center and Virtualization Summit, a Gartner research analyst discusses the five top trends that are shaping data center design in the future, and vendors including EMC, IBM, HP, Riverbed, Extreme Networks and iPerintis highlight the capabilities of the future data center.
by: Winston Raj Thomas 18-Sep-2012

Progress builds cloud strategy on ISV, channel ecosystem

Progress Software is going back to what it does best as it eyes leadership in the application PaaS market. The key to achieving its goals is its ecosystem of more than 1,500 ISVs supporting more than 5,000 applications, six million users and generating over US$5 billion in annual revenues.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 11-Sep-2012

Gartner: App dev market to exceed US$9b this year

The worldwide application development (AD) software market is expected to reach more than US$9 billion in 2012, an increase of 1.8% over 2011, according to Gartner. Evolving software delivery models, development methodologies and open source software will drive growth.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Sep-2012
Win Server 2012 powers cloud environments
A survey of 70 Windows Server 2012 early adopters from across the globe reveals that they expect, on average, 52% reduction in downtime, 41% reduction in workload deployment time, and 15 hours of productivity time saved per year, per employee.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Sep-2012
enStratus, OpSource provide governance for enterprise-class clouds
enStratus, a provider of cloud infrastructure automation and management solutions, has integrated OpSource’s cloud hosting services into its cloud management platform.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Sep-2012
Silver Peak accelerates workloads from VMware console
Silver Peak Systems unveiled at VMworld2012 a point-and-click solution for accelerating individual workloads directly from VMware vCenter and other virtual infrastructure management consoles.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Sep-2012

Miss Hong Kong voting saga -- Microsoft explains

Microsoft addresses some common concerns about the voting platform set up behind the Miss Hong Kong 2012 voting application: why it couldn't auto-provision more server capacities, the intricacies of building a truly scalable application, and more.
by: Carol Ko 29-Aug-2012
F5, VMware collaborate on software-defined data centers
Organizations that pursue increasingly agile IT deployment models are turning to software-defined data centers, which enables them to seamlessly integrate application services into data center operations, while reducing management complexity and operations costs.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 29-Aug-2012