data center

How networks must work with the complexity of virtualized data centers

vSwitches present a number of critical challenges to network administrators. Virtual ports inside servers are invisible to the devices managing security in the physical network. Managers have no way to identify and secure interactions between VMs. As a result administrators cannot monitor traffic or meet compliance and security policies. How do you secure what you can't see?
by: Gao Peng, H3C 17-Oct-2012
PT DCI, Equinix to build new data center in Indonesia
PT DCI will build and operate a new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia, to provide colocation, interconnection, support and monitoring services as part of Platform Equinix. Phase one is due to complete in Q1 2013.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 09-Oct-2012
Rolls-Royce to remotely compute from HP's data centers
Rolls-Royce will host its IT applications from HP's data centers in Singapore, the US and the UK. It will also remotely host its servers and storage in HP's facilities in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and Norway using infrastructure management tools.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 08-Oct-2012
Kansai University cuts 30% ICT costs with learning platform upgrade
By migrating its education research system to the cloud, Kansai University has consolidated its 21 servers to two with server virtualization. Together with cloud-based file storage, it has reduced 30% ICT costs, and cut power consumption by 46%.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 04-Oct-2012
Telstra expands hosting capacity with new Singapore data center
Telstra Global's new Singapore data center will help deliver colocation, managed hosting and network services, as well as cloud-based solutions including infrastructure, collaboration and security services, such as virtual contact center and IP conferencing.
by: Networks Asia staff 03-Oct-2012

Optimizing business value through preventive maintenance

A recent Gartner CEO survey reported that 85% of CEOs surveyed expects their businesses to be impacted by the economic downturn in 2012. Despite this, a ratio of more than two to one CEOs planned to increase their IT investments this year.
by: Benedict Soh, Schneider Electric 02-Oct-2012

Building HK's first gov clouds II: Outsourced private cloud

After setting up the first government in-house private cloud in December 2011, the Hong Kong government CIO office is now actively working to build its first outsourced private cloud, also known as GovCloud, with a target launch date in 2013.
by: Carol Ko 27-Sep-2012

Building HK's first gov clouds I: In-house private cloud

In December 2011, the Hong Kong government CIO office launched the first government private cloud platform, which is hosted at the ISO20000-certified Central Computer Center to process and store mission-critical government data of the 30 government bureaus and departments.
by: Carol Ko 26-Sep-2012
Symantec survey II: Info governance mitigates DC complexity
Symantec’s 2012 State of the Data Center Survey has found that the single biggest initiative organizations are undertaking to reduce data center complexity is to implement a comprehensive information governance strategy.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 26-Sep-2012
Symantec survey I: Cloud increasing data center complexity
Data centers are becoming increasingly complex as organizations generate huge volumes of data, deploy strategic technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing, and embrace mobility within the enterprise, according to Symantec.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 26-Sep-2012