hybrid cloud

F5 advises: 3 tips to help minimize hybrid cloud risks

IDC’s recent finding that Asia/Pacific financial services institutions seek greater clarity on cloud computing regulations and better articulation of business benefits by IT vendors emphasizes how not all businesses are ready cloud converts.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 10-May-2012
Survey: Public, private cloud delivery to increase by 50% by 2020
Coleman Parkes Research's survey findings show that almost 70% of business and technology executives in the Asia Pacific believe that cloud computing will be at least as disruptive to the technology landscape as the impact of virtualization or the internet.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Apr-2012

Gartner: 5 trends to affect cloud strategy through 2015

Gartner identifies five short-term cloud computing trends that the enterprises should factor into their IT planning process -- as cloud trends and the related technologies evolve change rapidly, and there is continuing confusion and misunderstanding as vendors increasingly hype 'cloud' as a marketing term.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 04-Apr-2012
Biz vs IT tension worsens as public cloud adoption grows
New survey results show the high expectations for speedy, low-cost implementation of new software systems in the cloud are putting unique pressures on IT departments within the enterprise. As businesses demand for greater speed and agility, they tend to look outside the organization to provision services in public clouds.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 22-Mar-2012
CSC launches on-premise private cloud in Asia
BizCloud features CSC CloudCompute, an infrastructure-as-a-service architecture that is also deployed in the CSC cloud data centers. CloudCompute delivers compute, storage and network resources as a service to support all applications.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 16-Mar-2012
Survey: 45% HK biz to protect data with cloud by 2012
According to new survey findings, 47% of Hong Kong companies plan to focus spending on better protecting their virtual environments, while 46% will plan focus investment on managing a hybrid cloud environment where private clouds are supplemented with access to public clouds resources.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 15-Mar-2012

Best practices of cloud-based co-location in 5 industries

Cloud-based co-location providers are in a great position to do business as they can deploy mission-critical equipment close to their users' cloud apps and development environment. Find out how cloud-based co-location can be adopted in five industries: finance, media, government, retail and telco.
by: Carol Ko 13-Mar-2012

Hybrid cloud solutions: Hype or Holy Grail?

The possibility to having "the best of both worlds" with hybrid cloud extends to enterprises with on-premise infrastructure -- using traditional IT infrastructure in connection with public cloud computing via private network for maximum effect.-
by: Taylor Man, executive vice president, new business division, NTT Com Asia 07-Mar-2012

Vietnam's IT heads to transform IT with cloud

CIOs in Vietnam all recognize the need to transform IT but face internal cultural and security issues in their journey to the cloud. Bao Viet Bank, for example, is building its private cloud and virtualizing servers and apps, but finds it hard to convince the management to move some more critical systems to the virtual environment.
by: Chee Sing Chan 28-Feb-2012
HK gov't to adopt public cloud services, builds vendor directory
The government CIO in Hong Kong invites submissions from cloud service providers on public cloud services provisions to government bureaus and departments. Public cloud SPs can submit offers under four categories -- productivity applications, business applications, cloud IT services and social media applications.
by: eGov Innovation editors 22-Feb-2012