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By Carol Ko 04-Jan-2012

Bernie Trudel, CTO, Cloud, Cisco APAC and Chairman, Asia Cloud Computing Assoc.
Bernie Trudel, CTO, Cloud, Cisco APAC and Chairman, Asia Cloud Computing Assoc.

In 2012, the IT industry can expect to see a much more robust product lifecycle management approach in managing cloud services as end consumers begin their 'cloud shopping spree.' Whichever cloud services to adopt, businesses are advised to incorporate cloud computing into their overall IT strategy, start small, and pay attention to change management, according to Cisco.

 

In an interview with Asia Cloud Forum, Cisco Asia Pacific's CTO of Cloud and Chairman of the Asia Cloud Computing Association Bernie Trudel (pictured) outlines Cisco’s key investments in cloud computing in 2011, how Cisco helped Singapore Temasek Polytechnic to build a "Green Data Center," and how IT may present the business case for cloud adoption to the senior management. Excerpts below:

 

Asia Cloud Forum: What was your company’s most important investment in cloud computing in 2011?

Bernie Trudel: This has been a big year for Cisco in cloud computing. We welcomed cloud guru Lew Tucker into the company as chief technology officer for cloud computing. As we continue to innovate and deliver offerings ranging from business tablets to core routers and switches, the relationship between these technologies and the cloud continues to broaden. 

In terms of our commitment to Asia’s cloud services market, we have invested in three main areas:

Asia Cloud Computing Association: we are active participants in the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) where I have the role of chairman of this industry association. We work closely to influence public policies and regulatory that shape Asia’s cloud services market. Earlier this year, we published the Cloud Readiness Index, which tracks the region's progress towards a complete environment of infrastructure, business and regulatory conditioned to facilitate cloud computing service offers. By understanding the criteria and conditions for successful cloud implementation, we aim to address issues and develop solutions that will remove bottlenecks, which may be slowing the adoption of Asia’s digital future. 

With regards to Cisco, we launched the Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (CIAC), an advanced software stack for cloud computing and data center automation, which works with both virtual and physical infrastructure across the compute, network, storage, and application domains.

Tidal Software (acquired in 2009) and newScale (acquired in 2011), part of the CIAC, helps our customers meet business demands for ever-increasing speed, agility, and cost savings by providing effective tools for managing IT in a new cloud-based paradigm.

Last but not least of all, Cisco invested in service delivery and consulting resources in Asia Pacific in order to help our customers take advantage of these new technologies like CIAC. 

Describe one of your company’s most successful customer deployments of cloud service in 2011.

"In public sector settings, cloud computing provides agility in terms of procurement and acquisition process and timelines."

 

-- Bernie Trudel, CTO of Cloud at Cisco in APAC, and chairman of Asia Cloud Computing Association

Trudel: Temasek Polytechnic recently announced the use of virtualization to cater to the millennial generation of students in their institution. Transforming higher education with the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS), Temasek Polytechnic has implemented a ‘Virtual Desktop Infrastructure’ on a foundation of a Green Data Center. This will offer anytime, anywhere learning to a generation of students who expect schools to offer learning via the same consumer technologies they use every day.

Digital technologies have become critical to educational institutions like Temasek Polytechnic as they find new ways to deliver and manage information, learning content, rich-media and provision academic and administrative services. Using the Cisco UCS, Temasek Polytechnic is able to provide a virtual desktop for students, available anywhere on campus and easily accessible through a Web browser. 

From a business perspective, the virtualization of the data center also provides highly secure, mobile, and flexible access to data, while the infrastructure delivers economies of scale and a smaller carbon footprint.




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2011 review, 2012 predictions, app store, Asia Cloud Computing Association, Cisco, Cloud Readiness Index, cloud strategy, education, merger and acquisition, network, product lifecycle management, Temasek Polytechnic




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