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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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Microsoft's BPOS suffers 3-hour outage, US customers affected
Microsoft's outage of BPOS, which includes Exchange Online and SharePoint Online, has been hit by various outages dating back to August of last year. Yesterday's outage involved a networking hardware problem and affected customers in North America.
by: Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau) 23-Jun-2011

8 questions to ask prospective cloud vendors

The decision to pursue a cloud computing strategy is checkered with questions: What cloud vendor do you hire? What apps do you put in the cloud? Do you use a public cloud or a private cloud? Then there are the issues of security, availability and disaster recovery to consider.
by: Todd R. Weiss, CIO.com 23-Jun-2011

"Cloud Readiness Index" tracks Asia's cloud adoption progress

Asia Cloud Computing Association's "Cloud Readiness Index" studies a spectrum of cloud-based infrastructures and services, by mapping the conditions and criteria required for successful implementation and uptake.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 21-Jun-2011
HP enhances cloud solutions for telcos, SMBs
HP Cloud Services Enablement for Communications-as-a-Service is expected to enables wireless, wireline and broadband companies to offer SMBs IT and communications services such as messaging, collaboration and automated voice services.
by: Staff writer, TelecomAsia.net 17-Jun-2011
Telstra invests US$800m dollars to support 5-year cloud plan
Telstra's US$800m expenditure will include the building of a new Australian data center and modernization of existing Telstra data centers; the expansion of enterprise apps, a new integrated online account management portal; and the enhancement of T-Suite's capabilities.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 17-Jun-2011
VMware to buy Digital Fuel to measure cloud costs
Digital Fuel provides enterprises with tools to measure the cost of their infrastructure and applications across a combination of public clouds, private clouds, or traditional environments. Business units can then be charged for their actual usage of IT applications and resources.
by: John Ribeiro, IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau) 15-Jun-2011

Fujitsu commits US$40m in cloud, took SingPost & NIE on board

Singapore's National Institute of Education research arm deploys Fujitsu's open infrastructure component for speedy IT resources provision to scale its research projects more effectively.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 13-Jun-2011

Survey: 40% of HK NGOs say cloud can solve their IT challenges

To raise service levels, 12 participating Hong Kong NGOs and schools of Microsoft's "Cloud Connect" initiative will gain access to always-on connectivity, mobility and security to offload their manpower burden and costs of IT infrastructure maintenance.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 11-Jun-2011
NEC manages environmental impact info on public cloud
Called GreenGlobe Data Visualizer, the service gathers and centralizes the management of environmental impact information on public cloud from multiple locations: the consumption and emission of energy, chemical substances, paper, water, CO2 and waste matter.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 10-Jun-2011
China Life, China Unicom join Open Data Center Alliance
Along with a group of US and overseas companies, they will encourage other cloud providers to adopt commons standards for managing security, operating routine processes and describing their services.
by: Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld (US) 10-Jun-2011