Opinions

Cloud and the SMB opportunity

For midsize companies it’s particularly important to harness the power of big data to differentiate their client experience from larger competitors. By moving to the cloud, SMBs can now benefit from the actionable insights that can be gleaned from deep analysis of data that wasn’t manageable in the past.
Cheah Saw Pheng, IBM Singapore Post date: 28-May-2013
IT outsourcing market transformed by the Cloud
An interesting transformation is taking place in the IT outsourcing landscape, specifically in the system integration space.
Poh Mui Hoon, ICONZ-Webvisions 17-Jun-2013
Cloud and the SMB opportunity
For midsize companies it’s particularly important to harness the power of big data to differentiate their client experience from larger competitors. By moving to the cloud, SMBs can now benefit from the actionable insights that can be gleaned from deep analysis of data that wasn’t manageable in the past.
Cheah Saw Pheng, IBM Singapore 28-May-2013
Lee Thompson, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, Salesforce.com
How to create customer companies with enterprise social networking
Customer companies listen to every customer, engage on every channel and deliver great customer service everywhere. They sell as a team, connect products to the network and deliver apps on any device.
Lee Thompson, Salesforce.com 21-May-2013
Hybrid clouds and their potential to transform government services
New and emerging global risks – tepid global growth, huge volatility in financial markets, terrorism, and global warming related disasters are just some examples – pose unprecedented challenges to governments, often on short notice.
Damien Wong, Red Hat 21-May-2013
Noisy neighbors in your cloud
The "noisy neighbor problem" occurs when the disk I/O for one user starts to interfere with the operations of another user on the same server.
Stefan Hammond, Computerworld Hong Kong 16-May-2013
Opening new doors in the cloud
Despite the rising competition between telcos to offer cloud services, many telecom providers find themselves challenged to organically develop the expertise to manage complex enterprise class types of cloud deployments.
Nathan Bell, Director of Portfolio, Telstra Global 07-May-2013
Cloud data protection tips
With any evolving technology comes new threats to the security of an organization’s data, and specifically payment card data, which remains the most attractive target for criminals.
Jeremy King, European director, PCI Security Standards Council 22-Apr-2013
Bruce Dahlgren, SVP and GM, enterprise services, APJ, HP
Essential IT investment: Outsourcing cloud services
Most finance and insurance institutions will enter the cloud computing continuum by building private clouds and consuming external non-core services such as email, collaboration tools, and ERP/CRM.
Bruce Dahlgren, HP 22-Apr-2013
Karl Horne, CTO, Ciena Asia Pacific
SDN: Enabling the cloud backbone of the future
In the future, rather than over-provisioning the network, service providers will employ a software-defined network (SDN) that can be programmed to allocate bandwidth from a shared pool of resources where and when it is needed.
Karl Horne, Ciena Asia Pacific 22-Apr-2013
Authenticating access to the Cloud
Authenticating users' identity before they are allowed to access the cloud is the most straightforward method to ensure better protection for data and applications. But even so, simple username-password authentication in this day and age will not be sufficient to keep intruders away.
Philippe Inserra, Asia Vice-President, Online Authentication, Security Business Unit, Gemalto 09-Apr-2013