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Hong Kong hears Beijing and Guangdong out on cloud progress

While Beijing Cloud Valley aims to achieve, by 2015, a value of output of US$8b from IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, the Guangdong government plans to create a 'cloud computing industry' comprising IaaS, PaaS and SaaS valuing over US$16b.
by: Carol Ko 18-Apr-2013

OGCIO explores Guangdong-HK, SMB cloud development in IT Fest 2013

The 2-week International IT Fest 2013 will feature 20 events and 5 awards, including the HK-Guangdong Cloud Industry Collaboration Forum and the SME ICT & Cloud Experience Day. Hong Kong's GCIO explains why there is no cloud award this year.
by: Carol Ko 21-Mar-2013

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

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

Forecasting the next-gen data center design

At the Hong Kong Data Center and Virtualization Summit, a Gartner research analyst discusses the five top trends that are shaping data center design in the future, and vendors including EMC, IBM, HP, Riverbed, Extreme Networks and iPerintis highlight the capabilities of the future data center.
by: Winston Raj Thomas 18-Sep-2012
HK and China's cloud experts to discuss cloud standards
IT leaders from Hong Kong and China will gather to discuss the overall planning, key technologies, applications and security governance on cloud computing standardization; the information infrastructure of cloud computing; and the cooperation opportunities for China cloud computing applications, technology and standards.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 28-Mar-2012