cloud management

Dimension Data cloud services target need for agility

Over the next 12 months, Dimension Data plans to extend its cloud platform, develop new services offerings, and aggressively execute on its strategic plans, said Brett Dawson, CEO of Dimension Data.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 20-Nov-2012

Cloud Maturity Study: Top 10 issues reveal low cloud confidence

"Government regulations keeping pace with the market," "exit strategies," and "international data privacy" were found to be the top three areas where organizations have the lowest confidence in cloud computing, according to ISACA and CSA's "Cloud Maturity Study."
by: Carol Ko 20-Nov-2012
How to design and build a cloud app environment in 30 minutes
To 78% of respondents in an HP-commissioned study earlier this year, reducing the time required to provision new applications will improve responsiveness to customer demands, reduce time-to-market and provide faster access to real-time information.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 13-Nov-2012

From COBOL to cloud: Modernizing apps

Improved resource management, greater business agility, and lower cost of IT are certainly value propositions of cloud computing that resonate with business. However, many of today’s businesses still rely on the unique characteristics inherent in their business software applications.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 02-Nov-2012

From COBOL to cloud: The race for talent

Micro Focus, a leader in the COBOL application base, is seeing developers using its technology beginning to examine the possibilities of cloud application development and deployment for their businesses.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 30-Oct-2012
Jelastic integrates Parallels billing automation system
Jelastic Inc, the Java hosting platform for cloud applications, is supporting the Parallels Business Automation Standard, a billing and hosting automation system for managing and scaling small and medium-size web hosting businesses.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 30-Oct-2012

3 reasons IT should transform the service desk experience

As social media and BYOD trends become commonplace, especially in the Asian workplace, IT organizations may have little choice but to transition quickly from a passive, infrastructure-oriented support function to one that proactively empower the highly mobile user.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Oct-2012
IBM: Big data drives PaaS adoption
The IBM Center for Applied Insights has found that the need to streamline application development amid big data, increasing complexity and higher pace of innovation, is driving demand for PaaS.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Oct-2012
Microsoft releases cloud security readiness tool
Microsoft has made available a Cloud Security Readiness Tool, which organizations can use to understand their systems, processes, policies and practices.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 17-Oct-2012
VMware extends multi-platform, multi-cloud management
Businesses of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to transform IT through the software-defined data center, according to Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president of cloud infrastructure and management at VMware.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 17-Oct-2012