Features

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
Peter Sharples, director of channel strategy, cloud & IT Mgmt, CA Technologies
Calculating data center energy costs and boosting energy efficiency
When your annual energy cost of running a 2,000-rack data center in Hong Kong amounts to US$12 million, energy efficiency should be one top concern, also because more cloud customers will ask you to incorporate energy efficiency into their cloud contracts.
Carol Ko 07-Aug-2012
Malik Murad Ali, Mydin Mohamed Holdings Berhad
Mydin sows seeds of growth in the cloud
Malaysian retail and wholesale giant, Mydin Mohamed Holdings Berhad, has found the agility and speed it needs in cloud computing to propel its rapidly growing business. The company is targeting US$840 million (RM2.6 billion) in sales for its current financial year ending March 31 next year.
Khoo Boo Leong 07-Aug-2012
Loh Ching Soo and Alvin Goh, NetApp
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.
Khoo Boo Leong 07-Aug-2012
Launch of Citic Telecom CPC's SmartCloud center in Singapore
CiticTel CPC opens SmartCloud center in Singapore
Citic Telecom CPC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Citic Telecom International Holdings Ltd, has launched its first ASEAN SmartCloud center in Singapore. The newest SmartCloud center is the company's sixth in the region after Taiwan, Guangzhou and Shanghai early this year and two in Hong Kong last July.
Khoo Boo Leong 01-Aug-2012
Taylor Man, Executive Vice President, New Business Division, NTT Com Asia
Powering green data centers -- NTT's successes and challenges
NTT Com Asia's Hong Kong data center receives the LEED Silver certification for its green practices and improvements in operations. What are the key design elements for the facility? Is renewable energy source an option for them?
Carol Ko 31-Jul-2012
Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report
Verizon: Watch out for gaps in security practices
“Enterprises generally know about [security] best practices,” said Andrew Valentine, managing principal for IRN Forensics at Verizon. “The issue is that enterprises think that they’ve got the best practices in place but they don’t."
Khoo Boo Leong 30-Jul-2012
Aloysius Cheang, MD & standards secretariat head, APAC, Cloud Security Alliance
CSA APAC HQ selection: Is Hong Kong losing out in cloud race?
Cloud Security Alliance's APAC managing director contrasts the efforts Singapore and Hong Kong made in developing cloud standards. He says Singapore "has an upper hand" as a sovereign state, and has contributed in international standardization efforts for years.
Carol Ko 30-Jul-2012
IBM data center
IBM builds risk-aware culture with 10 essential controls
An increasingly mobile workforce demanding anytime, anywhere access from any device to corporate systems and lines of business adopting cloud services drastically increase the vulnerability of an enterprise network.
Khoo Boo Leong 25-Jul-2012
Aloysius Cheang, Cloud Security Alliance
The multiplier effect of CSA’s corporate HQ in Singapore
The decision by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to locate its corporate headquarters in Singapore could set off a multiplier effect on IT jobs, investments and innovation in the island republic and the region.
Khoo Boo Leong 24-Jul-2012
Alex Caro, Chief Technology Officer and VP of Services, APJ, Akamai Technologies
Akamai CTO: Smart devices drive hyper-connectivity on cloud
Hyper-connectivity is first driven mostly by devices -- the availability and connectivity of the devices. If you have lots of devices, and lots of users using those devices, you'll start to consider different options to increase data center capacity, including cloud computing.
Carol Ko 24-Jul-2012