Features

Vast majority of firms have no issues with data sovereignty: SoftLayer APAC GM

Discussions around data privacy and security in the cloud have often been inextricably linked to perceived concerns over where an organization's data resides.Such fears, however, have not surfaced among SoftLayer's customers.
Melissa Chua 05-Jun-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
Albert Tay, OpenText
OpenText builds enterprise cloud apps around EIM core
Many business leaders and CEOs are recognizing the urgency to leverage information assets, both inside and outside the enterprise, to achieve better business decisions and performance and increase the strategic value of IT, according to research firm Gartner.
Khoo Boo Leong 01-Mar-2013
Freddy Tan, CISSP, chairperson, (ISC)2 board of directors and co-chair
Can old IT security skills be reskilled for cloud management?
While (ISC)2's latest study shows about 75% of the info-security workforce in APAC agree that cloud computing requires new skill sets, Akamai's Enterprise Security Director John Ellis said there is already a cloud-aspect to most of the IT skills that an organizations looks for.
Carol Ko 27-Feb-2013
Seagate's strategic application of storage
Strategic application of storage I: Trends and implications
Business leaders continue to expect increased agility to use their data to do more things, more quickly and more affordably despite exponential growth in information volumes and a drastic shift in the volume of data to be managed and where those assets are to be stored.
Asia Cloud Forum editors 26-Feb-2013
Singapore growth
Singapore Budget 2013 targets quality growth
Singapore has unveiled a S$5.9 billion (US$4.8 billion) Quality Growth Programme in its fiscal year 2013 Budget to fuel growth by sustained productivity improvement rather than manpower growth.
Khoo Boo Leong 26-Feb-2013
Passengers buy train tickets at the Chongqing railway station in China (Xinhua)
Can cloud adoption halt China's railway ticketing failure?
This year, the creation and wide use of plug-in browsers to speed up ticket purchase from China's national railway ticketing system worsened the already intense web traffic spikes, causing network server crash. Is cloud adoption a sure way to ensure service availability?
Carol Ko 20-Feb-2013
Mick Scully, Akamai and Alex Chau, IDC
CDNs offer telcos higher-margin opportunities
CDNs have become the perfect delivery vehicle for fixed and mobile operators, particularly in Asia, to attract higher-margin revenue, create new revenue streams and improve their customers’ experience while saving cost.
Khoo Boo Leong 20-Feb-2013