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Does BYOD bring IT cost savings?

Like cloud computing, BYOD is valued for shifting capex to opex -- as companies no longer own the devices but have IT support in place to aid their use. Are companies actually saving IT costs from BYOD? Or are they unknowingly adding to the cost of ensuring security and compatibility with enterprise software?
by: Carol Ko 15-May-2012

Cloud: Lots to overcome before price is differentiator

According to Gartner, Amazon's updated rates will force its competitors to prove service differentiation, which could manifest into much lower cost services for more customers or more high quality services.
by: Enterprise Innovation editors 10-Apr-2012

Gartner: 5 trends to affect cloud strategy through 2015

Gartner identifies five short-term cloud computing trends that the enterprises should factor into their IT planning process -- as cloud trends and the related technologies evolve change rapidly, and there is continuing confusion and misunderstanding as vendors increasingly hype 'cloud' as a marketing term.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 04-Apr-2012

Gartner: 5 megatrends ushers new Personal Cloud era

Gartner said the major trends in client computing have shifted the focus on PCs to a broader device perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices. Emerging cloud services will become the glue that connects the web of devices that users choose to access.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 13-Mar-2012
Gartner: 90% of all devices to be cloud-linked by 2013
Gartner predicts that personal cloud will become widely adopted by 2015. The emergence of personal clouds reflects consumers' desire to seamlessly store, sync, stream, and share their content on regardless of device or platform.
by: StorageAsia editors 08-Mar-2012

Vietnam's IT heads to transform IT with cloud

CIOs in Vietnam all recognize the need to transform IT but face internal cultural and security issues in their journey to the cloud. Bao Viet Bank, for example, is building its private cloud and virtualizing servers and apps, but finds it hard to convince the management to move some more critical systems to the virtual environment.
by: Chee Sing Chan 28-Feb-2012

HP service targets supplier sprawl in IT outsourcing

Supplier sprawl is a major challenge as business groups within enterprises adopt the cloud 2.5 times faster than IT groups and as they procure services from external suppliers, which are separate from services developed by IT.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 23-Feb-2012
Gartner’s top 2012 predictions: Cloud to erode IT budgets
"The IT organization of the future must coordinate those who have the money, those who deliver the services, those who secure the data, and those consumers who demand to set their own pace for use of IT," said Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner fellow.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 02-Feb-2012
Big data, VM sprawl challenge virtualization adopters in HK
The unintended consequences of increased server virtualization adoption in 2011 is virtual machine sprawl. In many cases this can actually increase the total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure and wipe out the economic benefits associated with virtualization, Gartner said.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 30-Dec-2011
Gartner: Low-cost cloud to disrupt $1 trillion IT services market
Garter predictions for 2012 herald changes in control for IT organizations as budgets, technologies and costs become more fluid and distributed. The continued trends toward consumerization and cloud computing highlight the movement of certain former IT responsibilities into the hands of others.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 01-Dec-2011