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Anaplan CEO: What makes us smarter than Microsoft's Excel?

How may a business data modelling/ planning SaaS be useful to Finance, Sales and Operation with varying operation cycles? What is "hyperblock architecture?" What makes Anaplan's CEO think his software surpasses Microsoft's Excel and Access?
Carol Ko 06-May-2013

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Oracle builds public cloud offering with RightNow acquisition
The new acquisition will beef up Oracle's public cloud service offerings including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud.
by: CRM Innovation editors 06-Nov-2011
Intertrust Group: Hong Kong offers world-class data centers
Recently set up its 600 sq. ft. data center in Hong Kong, the Group considers Hong Kong to be a more viable choice to build their regional data center in despite the city shares the same level of political stability and infrastructure maturity with Singapore.
by: Sheila Lam 04-Nov-2011
NTT Com Asia launches cloud-based disaster recovery solution
NTT Com Asia’s EnterpriseCloud allows enterprises to operate a secondary disaster recovery site in the cloud with highly redundant and scalable resources and which is backed by NTT Com Asia’s IT infrastructure.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 02-Nov-2011
Red Hat to acquire Gluster for open source storage
Gluster's speciality is simplifying storage using open source software and commodity hardware. Its GlusterFS is a software-only, scale-out storage system. It allows enterprises to combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally-managed and globally-accessible storage pool.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 02-Nov-2011

Hard questions CIOs must ask before cloud buys

CIOs hold overall responsibility for meeting the performance requirements of their user groups. They also plan current and future capacity, agility and security of their IT. Given these important responsibilities, CIOs must ask these critical questions of their prospective cloud solution providers.
by: Ajoy Philip, NetApp 01-Nov-2011

Monitor cloud vendor performance or risk user disappointment

Businesses considering cloud computing to support its customer-facing Web apps must look beyond the cloud’s cost savings and scalability. They should also evaluate how cloud adoption will impact the end user experience, which will in turn impact their revenues.
by: Carol Ko 31-Oct-2011
Huawei hinges cloud dreams on partners
Huawei is aiming to have 60% to 70% of its cloud business originate from outside of China by the end of next year, up from the current 25%. Now, Huawei’s challenge lies in engaging both systems integrators and software application partners specializing in cloud deployments for specific verticals.
by: Melissa Chua 27-Oct-2011
HDS tackles big data with information cloud
HDS information cloud provides a scale-out file system that can store and process both structured and unstructured data in parallel and at scale. It can connect data sets, reveal patterns, actionable information and new insights to business users.
by: Asia Cloud Forum 26-Oct-2011
Equinix connects 4,000 data center users on e-marketplace
The new service, called Equinix Marketplace, enables enterprise users to create a custom profile and storefront. This helps sellers of services -- network connectivity, private clouds, alternative trading systems -- to drive sales by promoting their services to other participants.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 25-Oct-2011
Rackspace, Citrix, NetApp, Logicalis offer hosted desktop virtualization
The service is delivered with Rackspace’s infrastructure services from its Hong Kong facility, Citrix’s next-generation XenDesktop software, NetApp’s storage to enable the provisioning, and Logicalis’ front and backend support.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 25-Oct-2011