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Australia's CBA bank consolidates 300 databases on PaaS

Following the success of running the entire bank's core production accounting system on PeopleSoft ERP, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2007 adopted PaaS to consolidate and share its 300 databases in a private cloud environment for its businesses in Australia.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 02-Jun-2011

Hong Kong traditional IT sectors risk complete elimination

The rise in cloud adoption in the last two years has already impacted IT hires in the vendor sales business and internal IT shops. While recruiters are increasingly looking for a strong command of soft skills, pure technical positions such as system administrators are being eliminated "completely."
by: Carol Ko 05-May-2011