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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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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
Symantec delivers DRaaS on Windows Azure
Advancements in replication, clustering and server virtualization software have opened the door to a more flexible approach to those architecting business continuity (BC) schemes, according to IDC’s 2011 Business Continuity Market Analysis.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 14-Jun-2012

Avanade survey: Singapore firms reap returns from big data

A surprising number of companies are already seeing returns on their big data investments, according to Avanade’s “Is Big Data Producing Big Returns?” global survey of more than 550 business executives and IT leaders.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Jun-2012
Sanofi consolidates 26 data centers to 3, migrates 4,000 apps
In just six months, Sanofi built an IT infrastructure consisting of three data centers that are interconnected and operate as a global private cloud. The global pharmaceutical company leverages VMware vSphere and EMC unified storage.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Jun-2012

Defending data with a secure cloud strategy

The success of any cloud implementation rests on a solid transformation strategy. Making the move to the cloud can be daunting as it compels CIOs to look at multiple issues – such as storage and server consolidation, automation and human resources – at the same time.
by: Loh Ching Soo, NetApp Singapore 11-Jun-2012