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Surviving 7 year itch: Atos HK continues OGCIO data center provision

Atos Hong Kong, who last week won a seven-year contract from the Hong Kong OGCIO to implement and operate its outsourced private cloud platform, has been providing the OGCIO with data center services the past seven years.
Carol Ko 03-Apr-2013

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HK group buying site ensures 100% network uptime with managed hosting
Using managed hosting service, GoBuya.com gets 24/7/365 support and guaranteed service levels backed by SLAs. This enables GoBuya.com to reduce spend on internal IT resources and focus on its core business.
by: Computerworld Hong Kong staff 15-Oct-2012

How to sell cloud computing to CIOs and CFOs

As the Hong Kong OGCIO secures US$31.2 million to build its first outsourced private cloud, we compare how CIOs and CFOs view the business case of cloud computing, and how big organizations like OGCIO keep cloud costs under control.
by: Carol Ko 10-Oct-2012
Rolls-Royce to remotely compute from HP's data centers
Rolls-Royce will host its IT applications from HP's data centers in Singapore, the US and the UK. It will also remotely host its servers and storage in HP's facilities in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and Norway using infrastructure management tools.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 08-Oct-2012
Kansai University cuts 30% ICT costs with learning platform upgrade
By migrating its education research system to the cloud, Kansai University has consolidated its 21 servers to two with server virtualization. Together with cloud-based file storage, it has reduced 30% ICT costs, and cut power consumption by 46%.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 04-Oct-2012
US schools migrate data to cloud for big savings
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's server consolidation exercise will save local schools US$10,000-$15,000 a year, funds that can be spent on other education programs. The state also expects to save about US$1,000,000 annually on support services.
by: eGov Innovation editors 03-Oct-2012

Toyota to deploy cloud communications for 200,000 staff

Toyota will deploy Microsoft's communications and collaboration products for 200,000 plus employees worldwide in the next two years to better support mobile devices, reduce costs, and improve collaboration between employees with enterprise social networking, conferencing, messaging and info-sharing tools.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 02-Oct-2012

Building HK's first gov clouds II: Outsourced private cloud

After setting up the first government in-house private cloud in December 2011, the Hong Kong government CIO office is now actively working to build its first outsourced private cloud, also known as GovCloud, with a target launch date in 2013.
by: Carol Ko 27-Sep-2012

Parallels rallies providers to tap $20b SMB cloud market

Asia Pacific SMBs could soon be subscribing to as many as four to six business-grade cloud services from one or more cloud service providers. Such trends could explain why service providers can profit by delivering cloud services to SMBs.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 25-Sep-2012
APAC SMB cloud services market to reach US$19.8b in 2015
The Asia Pacific SMB cloud services market opportunity in 2012 is worth US$7.6 billion, and will grow 38% annually, reaching US$19.8 billion in 2015. China and India will continue to led the growth markets for cloud services in the region.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 24-Sep-2012
ING Australia shows cloud transformation
ING Direct's "Bank in the Box" implementation, a private cloud solution which virtualizes ING Direct's entire banking platform, has been one of the most wide-ranging and significant cloud projects completed in Australia this year.
by: Lachlan Colquhoun 19-Sep-2012