Features

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
Cloud computing is the lynchpin supporting the mobility, big data and social media trends transforming how organizations and individuals engage with one another.
Khoo Boo Leong 01-Jan-2013
ETPL, the technology transfer arm of Singapore R&D organization A*STAR, is driving a consistent pipeline of technologies for commercialization as well as building clusters of industries, including business analytics, aimed at strengthening Singapore’s research and business ecosystem.
Khoo Boo Leong 01-Jan-2013
Computer technician on floor in server room
The six biggest misconceptions about cloud computing in 2012, according to some of the major cloud service providers and enablers in the region, range from conception, cost-benefit analysis, solutions design to application.
Carol Ko 31-Dec-2012
Devil and Angel shaking hands
Last week, a Gartner analyst wrote in her blog post suggesting the public cloud services of AWS and HP have the "worst SLA of any major cloud provider" for their availability zones requirement and "complex" SLA wordings. How did AWS, HP and an international law firm Pinsent Masons respond to this?
Carol Ko 19-Dec-2012
Sandra Ng, IDC
“2013 will be the last call for CIO transformation,” said Sandra Ng, vice president of IDC Asia Pacific’s Practice Group at the recent Asia-Pacific ICT 2013 Top 10 Predictions Forum. “The KPIs for IT departments and CIOs are beginning to change."
Khoo Boo Leong 19-Dec-2012
Hu Yoshida and Ravi Rajendran, Hitachi Data Systems
The explosive growth of data will continue to be the biggest concern for the IT industry in 2013 as big data creates challenges and opportunities, according to Hitachi Data Systems vice president and CTO, Hu Yoshida.
Khoo Boo Leong 19-Dec-2012
Determining the right cloud strategy for the business, stakeholders and customers is essential to ensuring enhanced business capabilities and an assured cloud experience.
Khoo Boo Leong 11-Dec-2012
Tony Simonsen, Equinix Australia
Australia is rapidly gaining a reputation for being the most fertile ground to house data. Despite heated competition in the Asia Pacific region, the Australian technology climate is enjoying a confluence of very attractive factors to make it a data destination of choice for local and global companies.
Tony Simonsen, Equinix Australia 10-Dec-2012
Rainbow and clouds over green pasture
In 2012, the Hong Kong OGCIO took the lead in hybrid cloud adoption and big players were busying building up data center capabilities. But industry-accepted cloud standards are still in the making.
Carol Ko 10-Dec-2012
Chip Salyards, BMC Software
Public cloud computing services have paved the way for non-IT staff to circumvent their IT organizations in search of faster IT support and problem resolution. Indeed, Forrester has reported that just 35% of business decision-makers say IT provides “high quality, timely end user support.”
Khoo Boo Leong 05-Dec-2012