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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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Trust marks for cloud emerging; due diligence vital

Even as trust marks for cloud services are being established, companies using such services need to ask their providers critical questions about where their data is stored, who has access to it and whether it’s stored on shared servers.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 01-May-2012

FalconStor shifts AP HQ to S’pore, drives Bluestone vision

FalconStor is poised to increase penetration into Asian markets it currently operates in even as it fleshes out Bluestone, its vision for service-oriented data protection, according to the company's president and CEO Jim McNiel.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 01-May-2012

IBM lists 7 considerations for cloud storage

Look beyond capacity in support of an infrastructure-wide scale-out when evaluating scalability to be able to support changing business needs. It is important that a cloud storage solution integrates with other cloud platforms to ensure unified, end-to-end provisioning across a heterogenous platform.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 27-Apr-2012

Big data propels business intelligence to the cloud

Research house Gartner said nearly one-third of organizations either have been using or are planning to use cloud or software-as-a-service offerings to boost their core business intelligence functions. The explosion of big data is a factor driving BI to the cloud.
by: Alvin Goh, NetApp 18-Apr-2012
Reliability, security concerns hamper EU gov't cloud adoption
While the European Commission has recently focused on a cloud computing strategy to boost uptake across all businesses in the European Union, many companies still hesitate in adopting cloud computing because of reliability and safety issues.
by: eGov Innovation Editors 12-Apr-2012

Cloud: Lots to overcome before price is differentiator

According to Gartner, Amazon's updated rates will force its competitors to prove service differentiation, which could manifest into much lower cost services for more customers or more high quality services.
by: Enterprise Innovation editors 10-Apr-2012

Opportunities from cloud computing

Demand for cloud-based applications to fulfill requirements of big business is increasing and the upgrade of telecom infrastructure around the world facilitates adoption. Gartner estimates the cloud computing market will grow to US$148.8 billion in 2014.
by: EMC and Citi 29-Mar-2012

NetApp risk sharing augments service provider strategies

Although companies and operations in Asia Pacific continue to enjoy top-management support for cloud strategies, legacy cloud issues remain obstacles that prevent service providers from penetrating this space at a more rapid pace.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 27-Mar-2012

3 keys to cloud-legacy system integration

BMC Software's Suhas Kelkar and Eric Blum identifies ithree key considerations to guide IT decision makers in integrating cloud solutions with existing systems.
by: Suhas Kelkar and Eric Blum, BMC Software 27-Mar-2012
CSC launches on-premise private cloud in Asia
BizCloud features CSC CloudCompute, an infrastructure-as-a-service architecture that is also deployed in the CSC cloud data centers. CloudCompute delivers compute, storage and network resources as a service to support all applications.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 16-Mar-2012