banking and finance

Bankers see cloud being essential to transformation

Banking and finance leaders at the recent Finance Tech Forum 2012 talked of the challenges in transforming IT and the role of cloud. The question of how IT must transforming to enable dynamic business change is almost always focused on the role of cloud computing.
by: Chee-Sing Chan 14-Nov-2012
Pakistan to expand mobile banking on IBM Cloud
Pakistani mobile-commerce provider Monet will deploy mobile banking applications using IBM's SmartCloud technology. The private cloud will allow Monet to save on initial investments in IT.
by: Enterprise Innovation editors 05-Nov-2012

5 banks join SAP to simplify transactions on cloud platform

Five banks joined SAP's cloud-based services platform to simplify their transactions with corporation, facilitate multi-bank routing, multi-format payments, on-boarding and corporate services application development and deployment.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 29-Oct-2012
Australia's CIOs tap cloud for growth and change
Delegates to the Asia Cloud Forum Conference held in Melbourne earlier heard keynote case studies from leading Australian companies including Pacific Brands, Realestate.com and ANZ Banking Group.
by: Enterprise Innovation editors 21-Sep-2012
Goldman Sachs to deploy data center-as-a-service in Singapore
Goldman Sachs' deploys modular data centers, a data center-as-a-service in Singapore, the UK and the US to achieve greater opex and capex savings, and to enhance energy conservation and power usage effectiveness.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 19-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

CIO panel: Is data center outsourcing a double-edged sword?

At a CIO panel discussion held last week, CIOs explain their concerns over data center outsourcing, the non-mission critical and mission critical projects and systems that they have outsourced, and their lessons learnt about outsourcing service provider selection.
by: Carol Ko, Winston Rah Thomas 19-Sep-2012
Indonesian CIOs seek virtual IT, business agility
Virtualization is a hot area in Indonesia as CIOs from Jakarta discussed their keen attitude to create fully virtual environments to support changing applications and user requirements.
by: Chee-Sing Chan 31-Aug-2012

The great debate: Is cloud a game-changer?

Cloud is no new model of IT service delivery, but it enables IT to become more agile. Current and ex-CIOs at Midland Realty, Essar Group and Temasek and a KPMG consultant speak about the successes and horrors of cloud adoption.
by: Carol Ko 20-Aug-2012
HKEx hosting data center added founding member Verizon
As part of ecosystem, Verizon will provide other members with low-latency connectivity and on-demand computing solutions and services for HKEx's new data center, due to launch at the Hong Kong Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate by end of 2012.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 15-May-2012