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Mandarin Oriental's Single Cloud migrates 5K users to Office 365

Under the "One Single Cloud Service" project title, the 28-hotel group unifies its communication and collaboration systems using Microsoft Office 365, enabling US$300K-500K cost reduction per hotel over four to five years, and saving 20 IT man hours per month per hotel.
Carol Ko 10-Apr-2013
Ericsson at MWC 2013
Ericsson: Cloud helping telcos to monetize networks
In a connected world, telecom operators, service providers and enterprises in industries such as transport and utilities are well positioned to capitalize on the growth of cloud services.
Asia Cloud Forum editors 27-Mar-2013
Ryobi Kiso investing to boost productivity, efficiencies
Singapore’s recent US$4.8 billion Quality Growth Programme is poised to gradually transform industry sectors such as construction to fuel growth by sustaining productivity improvement and rely less on manpower.
Khoo Boo Leong 26-Mar-2013
Strategic application of storage II: Lowering TCO
The most obvious way to lower storage TCO is to simply lower the cost of capacity. But as enterprise cloud adoption shifts from being just an ad hoc procedure to a strategic move, enterprises have to reduce costs while at the same time boost innovation.
Asia Cloud Forum editors 20-Mar-2013
BYOD and Mobile Security Conference, Singapore
BYOD success – no mixing work and play
The mobile security market has been rising at a compound annual growth rate of 43% between 2010 and this year, according to Frost & Sullivan. The strong growth is driven mainly by the BYOD trend that has been made feasible for business with cloud computing.
Khoo Boo Leong 20-Mar-2013
Richard Davies, CEO, Elastichosts
Elastichosts: HK and Sydney make sense as a pair
CEO of London-based Elastichosts explains why Hong Kong was picked as its new Asia data center location, why it chooses Equinix's data center facilities, and how its existing customers can leverage its cloud services for scalability, hosting support and server migration.
Carol Ko 19-Mar-2013
Mike Oliver, founder, Open 4 Business Online (O4BO)
O4BO: Why we switched from AWS to IBM?
Hong Kong-based Open 4 Business Online's founder Mike Oliver explained how he leveraged cloud computing in its cloud services delivery, and why he switched from the initial cloud service provider Amazon Web Services to IBM.
Carol Ko 13-Mar-2013
APM basis for service assurance, managing complexity
Applications and business transactions are becoming more important as companies introduce more online or cloud services that have a direct impact on customer satisfaction, revenue and retention.
Khoo Boo Leong 13-Mar-2013
Dell: SDN still maturing, cloud adoption heads CIO agenda
Dell recently bolstered its networking portfolio to help enterprises accelerate migration to software-defined 10G cloud and virtualized data centers. However, widespread SDN adoption may be three or four years away.
Khoo Boo Leong 13-Mar-2013
Alan Perkins, Director of Product & Technology for APAC, Rackspace
Rackspace: Big data and cloud were made for each other
Following the acquisition of ObjectRocket last week, Rackspace's senior executive in APAC explains the company initiatives in big data, how relevant is the use of cloud in big data analytics, and the value of using open source cloud to support big data analytics.
Carol Ko 06-Mar-2013
Patrick Buddenbaum, Intel
Intel distro for Hadoop to widen data analytics usage
Semiconductor giant Intel plans to enhance the Apache Hadoop platform for the widest range of uses, build the next-generation analytics solutions and eventually, ‘democratize big data analysis’.
Khoo Boo Leong 05-Mar-2013