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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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Kroll Ontrack: Data recovery plans lacking in cloud deployments
A cloud survey by Kroll Ontrack has revealed that while 62% of respondents are leveraging the cloud or virtualization or both, only 33% of them test data recovery plans regularly to ensure proper protocols are in place to protect this data.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Sep-2012

Data protection laws II -- APAC data privacy laws update

Data protection laws update matter to cloud users because their data may reside in a different jurisdiction. Here is a quick guide on the data protection laws update in South Korea, Taiwan, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong.
by: Carol Ko 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
SecureAge builds cloud storage on military-grade security
Singapore-based SecureAge Technology has released its LockCube App for the iOS platform. The secure cloud storage allows business users on the move to access their mission-critical files through their iPhones and iPads.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 29-Aug-2012

Data protection laws I -- policymakers' perspective

What are some of challenges policymakers face when drafting data protection laws? Is it a problem if data privacy laws disregard "data" as "assets? And why is it a challenge for policymakers to factor in industry-specific regulatory and compliance requirements?
by: Carol Ko 15-Aug-2012
Quantum, NCS expand partnership across Asia Pacific
Quantum Corp and Singapore-based service provider NCS are expanding their partnership across the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to Singapore, the expanded tie-up will initially cover the Greater China, Australia and ASEAN markets, with other markets to follow over time.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 07-Aug-2012

NetApp: Is your data a boon or bane to business?

For explosive amounts of data to be a propellant rather than a burden to business, enterprises and cloud service providers need an agile, flexible and scalable data infrastructure that they can monetize from. Such an infrastructure should also accommodate any existing heterogeneous environment.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 07-Aug-2012

Mastering the cloud contract tug of war II

This part II of an interview with attorney at law and CEO of CloudRisk Asia explains why cloud users need to scrutinize the boilerplate clauses in a cloud contract, and discusses the intricacies of data collection, retention, deletion and delivery by CSPs during a contract's lifetime.
by: Carol Ko 06-Jul-2012

Gartner: One-third consumer digital content to store in cloud by 2016

Despite social media sites are handling the bulk of consumer cloud storage needs at present, the increasing demand for consumer digital storage will open up huge business opportunities for local storage providers, home networking and automation service providers, as well as online storage and sync companies.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 25-Jun-2012
Savvis offers cloud-based big data solutions with Hortonworks
Savvis, a CenturyLink company and a provider of cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, is simplifying the movement of data between its Hadoop-based platform and enterprise data systems.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 14-Jun-2012