IaaS

Orange hits a six with Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia is deploying Orange Business Services’ Flexible Computing Premium IaaS to not only meet its growth needs over the next 36 months, but also consolidate and integrate its current environment with the cloud solution.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 05-Nov-2012
OneAsia cuts cloud delivery time from 15 days to 1 hour
To reduce the time to create new cloud services from months to minutes, OneAsia leverages HP pre-packaged application templates called Cloud Maps to automate provisioning and service catalog delivery capabilities.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 02-Nov-2012
StarHub, partners offer public government cloud services
StarHub has teamed up with several technology partners to fulfill the requirements of an Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore tender for the supply of cloud services to the public sector.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Oct-2012
Indosat launches enterprise-class IaaS
Indosat has launched the Indosat Cloud, an enterprise-class public cloud IaaS supporting on-demand provisioning and management of compute, storage and networking.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 17-Oct-2012
AT&T, IBM to launch cloud services via private networks
The business agreement will combine AT&T's virtual private networking and IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud capabilities, with AT&T Labs' technology to create a shared cloud service.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 09-Oct-2012
Gartner explains 5 misconceptions about the private cloud
Private cloud is being driven by the rapid penetration of virtualization and virtualization management, the growth of cloud computing offerings and pressure to deliver IT faster and cheaper. IT shops need to stay away from the hype, but focus on driving business values.
by: SMBWorld Asia editors 03-Oct-2012
Gartner: Global cloud services market to surpass US$109b in 2012
Business process-as-a-service will represent the largest growth segment in cloud services, accounting for about 77% of the total market. And the highest growth rates will occur in India, Indonesia and China.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 19-Sep-2012

Identity management a key part of Cloud 2.0

Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director of Cloud Security Alliance, sees current cloud deployments as Cloud 1.0, a new business model with old technologies. As the industry heads towards Cloud 2.0 with true multitenant technologies, identity management will become more crucial.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 05-Sep-2012

Geoprise: Asia Pac cloud adoption lags by 3 years or more

Despite the cloud computing hype in America and Europe, a study by Bangkok-based Geoprise Technologies shows that the Asia Pacific region hasn’t reached the peak of the technology hype curve quite yet.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 29-Aug-2012
XM Asia Pacific hosts clients’ platform on Savvis cloud
XM Asia Pacific is hosting its clients’ digital engagement platform on the Savvis Symphony Open public cloud platform through Savvis’ data centre in Singapore. The service is offered to customers in China, Australia and Japan.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 29-Aug-2012