industry collaboration

Movideo commits US$4m in APAC video SaaS delivery

Australia-based Movideo signs a four-year technical alliance with Microsoft to deliver its online video service on Azure. The company's CEO talks about how online video is delivered and consumed in Asia, the strongest business model for online video delivery, and his first steps taken to enter the Chinese market.
by: Carol Ko 02-Apr-2012
C&W Worldwide, Equinix jointly offer global data center services
The collaboration is expected to strengthen C&W Worldwide’s existing cloud capabilities, which will be extended to data center services including co-location, managed hosting and cloud computing services.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 12-Jan-2012
Indosat, Dimension Data to build managed cloud services
Under the initial five-year partnership, Indosat will be responsible for sales, client management, and the data center and network operations, while Dimension Data will manage the “onecloud” services portfolio and operation, IT architecture, the cloud platform and IT infrastructure.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 10-Jan-2012
Macau CTM, Cisco to offer cloud-based value-added services
The cloud-based value-added services will be supported by CTM’s fiber broadband network and Cisco’s cloud technologies. Targeting at Macau’s enterprise customers, the services are expected to help companies to manage businesses more cost-effectively.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 29-Nov-2011
Rackspace’s private cloud edition runs OpenStack
Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition enables organizations to deploy private clouds either in their own data center, one of Rackspace’s partner data centers (such as Equinix’s International Business Exchange data centers), or one of Rackspace’s worldwide data centers.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 08-Nov-2011
Rackspace, Citrix, NetApp, Logicalis offer hosted desktop virtualization
The service is delivered with Rackspace’s infrastructure services from its Hong Kong facility, Citrix’s next-generation XenDesktop software, NetApp’s storage to enable the provisioning, and Logicalis’ front and backend support.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 25-Oct-2011
Cisco, Citrix deliver hi-definition virtual desktops
The Cisco-Citrix alliance will help companies simplify the deployment of high-definition virtual desktops and applications over a Citrix HDX-enabled Cisco network to millions of PCs, Macs, tablets, smart phones and thin clients.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 21-Oct-2011
C&W, Glasshouse help firms reduce CO2 with cloud pact
Australian companies will get additional help in easily migrating to cloud based services through combined consulting expertise and hosting services offered by the partnership of Glasshouse Technologies and Cable & Wireless Worldwide.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 30-Jul-2011
VMmare embeds RSA DLP in virtual environments
The RSA DLP policies comprise 80 pre-defined policies that facilitate compliance with regulations worldwide. The content analysis engine is said to provide "deep inspection of data" by looking for specific keywords, patterns, and strings, as well analyzing contextual information.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 18-Jul-2011
Microsoft, Parallels invest US$5m in healthcare cloud services
The joint Health Community Cloud Automation solution is expected to help healthcare organizations move from traditional IT models to private, community and hybrid cloud models. The solution is expected to extend to desktops with Microsoft-based virtual desktop interface.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 12-Jul-2011