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Dell predicts: "Openness" to turn legacy data center into cloud

In 2011, Dell committed a US$1 billion investment in solutions and services including cloud computing, and set up Dell Solution Centers worldwide. Read on to find out Dell's cloud deployment for CITIC Telecom CPC, the latest developments about open cloud, and three cloud trends to watch for.
by: Carol Ko 11-Jan-2012
Cloud adoption increases government transparency in South Asia
The first hybrid cloud implementation in South Asia for cloud services is in education. In 2009, Singapore Ministry of Education put 30,000 teachers on a Google public cloud, including all the course curriculum, emails, archives, while the rest of the strategic parts were put on the private cloud.
by: Eden Estopace 01-Dec-2011
How to build a turnkey private and hybrid cloud
Companies skeptics about public cloud are opting to deploy private and/or hybrid cloud solutions which provides them the benefits of a public cloud while keeping their infrastructure under their leading to dramatic cost and time savings.
by: Garima Thockchom, CIO US 18-Sep-2011
Dell opens cloud solution center in Singapore
Dell's solution center in Singapore is expected to provide computing power and storage capability, as wel as customer briefings and solutions demos, architectural design sessions, proof of concept testing and validation, and support for horizontal and vertical solutions.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 26-Jul-2011
Dell, CITIC Telecom CPC co-launch cloud services in APAC
Called Smartcloud, the new cloud services comprise a virtual server solution with high availability disaster recovery capability, and collaboration SaaS including email, calendaring and other collaboration tools -- at 99.9% availability.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 18-Jul-2011
Dell opens cloud computing data center in Shanghai
The new data center in Shanghai, China will be used to host public and private clouds and to provide off-premise application and storage services. It will also be used to conduct R&D of reference architectures for the cloud and storage services, as well as data movement between systems.
by: Agam Shah, IDG News Service (New York Bureau) 06-Jul-2011
Dell US$1b investment comprises cloud data centers
Dell announces to build multiple global cloud data centers in the next 24 months as part of its cloud initiatives. The data centers will help provide "unlimited storage" for production environments, off-premise back up and DR with SaaS, in addition to Desktop-as-a-Service.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 13-Apr-2011
Dell, Equinix and Rackspace launch cloud demo for developers
Dell, Equinix and Rackspace Hosting announce to co-develop an OpenStack cloud demonstration and test environment for enterprises, Software-as-a-Service providers and network operators to assess cloud apps on an open source cloud.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 31-Mar-2011

Tiered storage, SSD and data de-dupe for data management

CIOs may find it particularly challenging to manage data growth (structured and unstructured data), which is estimated to rise at a whopping 913% compound annual growth rate. Coupling the challenges are factors like compliances needs and backup and security issues.
by: SMBWorld Asia Editors 31-Mar-2011

Dell reviews: Public cloud SPs to become giant IT buyers

Dell has armed itself in the cloud race with 10 plus acquisitions since 2007. In the next 12 months, the company will focus its marketing efforts in the Internet service providers and the telecoms sector, with special emphasis on the China market.
by: Carol Ko 04-Jan-2011