industry collaboration

BMC Software and Accenture jointly develop cloud solutions
The two companies agree to jointly develop and implement BMC Business Service Management solutions including virtualization, cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service. Accenture pros will team up to provide consultancy and integration services to BMC and its clients.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 22-Nov-2010
Cloud Security Alliance launches audit & compliance tools
The Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Stack toolkit will help the key stakeholders of the cloud assess private and public clouds against industry established best practices, standards and critical compliance requirements.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 18-Nov-2010

Asia Cloud Computing Association formed to drive industry collaboration

With 11 founding members, the not-for-profit organization will address cloud-related issues including data privacy and security concerns, compliance and regulatory mandates, licensing models, service levels, and other market risks.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 12-Nov-2010
Japanese companies get NEC-SAP cloud-based ERP
NEC will adopt "SAP ERP" as application software in the enterprise core system area of NEC’s Cloud Oriented Data Centers with an initial offering to companies in Japan. NEC customers in Japan will be offered a subscription model of the SAP ERP package software.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 04-Nov-2010
BSNL builds 6 data centers for private cloud services in India
BSNL will provide managed hosted and cloud services to the public sector and banks in India under the brand “onecloud.” The new data centers are expected to help speed up the implementation of social programs of the Indian government.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 01-Nov-2010

Cloud computing remains a 'relationship sale'

The go-to-market approach that Telstra and Accenture have adopted is based on relationship selling, rather than the often-hyped self-service cloud portal. The focus is on strategic and major sales and on protecting/ deepening existing network-centric customer relationships, as opposed to...
by: Steve Hodgkinson, Ovum 22-Oct-2010
Telstra and Accenture's private cloud keeps data onshore
The two companies are co-delivering private cloud services to businesses in the ANZ, delivered via a private high speed data connection from Telstra's data centers. The service offerings comprise infrastructure, development, business processes and applications, charged on a 'pay-as-you-use' basis.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 22-Oct-2010
Orange, Cisco, EMC and VMware form cloud biz alliance
Dubbed Flexible 4 Business, the alliance's cloud services portfolio will initially comprise IaaS solutions, including private cloud and back-up services, and SaaS solutions like security and unified communications services.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 11-Oct-2010
Amazon runs Oracle's software on designated machine images
AWS is splitting off a chunk of its cloud infrastructure for Oracle VM and Oracle apps, while Oracle loosens up its licensing for AWS. Will customers care?
by: Jo Maitland, Executive Editor and Carl Brooks, Technology Writer, SearchCloudComputing.com 22-Sep-2010

CA Technologies-Fujitsu pact supports cloud development

Going by an OEM agreement signed between Fujitsu and CA, Fujitsu will sell CA's application performance management solutions in Japan, and offer it with their SOA middleware suites and system management software suites. In return, CA will sell Fujitsu’s business process manager analytics product worldwide.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 17-Sep-2010