multi-tenancy

Noisy neighbors in your cloud

The "noisy neighbor problem" occurs when the disk I/O for one user starts to interfere with the operations of another user on the same server.
by: Stefan Hammond, Computerworld Hong Kong 16-May-2013

Business IT forecast: Partly to mostly cloudy

Gone are the days when IT maintenance, updates and upgrades were based on a yearly, quarterly or even monthly schedule and your data lived in a storage center that was located in an industrial park across town.
by: Sal Fernando, Commvault 19-Dec-2012

Retailers’ vulnerabilities in the cloud

Like other industries, the retail sector is under pressure to reduce costs, increase margins, drive growth and respond quickly to market conditions, making the cloud an increasingly attractive option.
by: Marc Bown, Trustwave 26-Nov-2012
VMware extends multi-platform, multi-cloud management
Businesses of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to transform IT through the software-defined data center, according to Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president of cloud infrastructure and management at VMware.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 17-Oct-2012

Oracle focuses on cloud with future Java

Oracle’s Java Development team leaders outlined plans for the future of the Java platform at this week’s JavaOne Conference 2012 in San Francisco. Plans covered portability between platforms, vendors, and even cloud-to-cloud portability.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 02-Oct-2012
Bhutan Telecom taps Avaya’s tenant-based manager
Avaya is providing a multi-tenant, web-based and personalized thin client application interface for integrating management and administration of contact center applications.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 19-Sep-2012
Cisco updates security solutions for cloud data centers
IT teams are struggling to keep pace with the demands of changing high-performance virtual and cloud environments, as well as the demands of increased complexity, compliance and employees bringing their own devices to work, among other trends.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 19-Sep-2012

6 questions to ask your SaaS provider

The cloud environment in which apps are built will have major implications on the QoS ISV and app developers offer. This will inevitably trickle down to the business consumer or end user. Before entering into any contractual agreements for SaaS, businesses should ask these six questions.
by: Chung Hao Ning, IBM Singapore 24-Nov-2011

Don’t recover from cloud security attacks, avoid them

With cloud computing, the best defense that also won’t hamper performance is early implementation of purpose-built security. Implement ironclad cloud security today to thwart malware attacks of the future.
by: Douglas Murray, Juniper Network Asia Pacific 17-Nov-2011

Cloud legal issues III: Data privacy laws in Asia

What are the different data privacy laws in force today? Can the Chinese government seize customer data which resides in a cloud data center in Hong Kong? What actions can firms take to protect their corporate data from government seizure, such as in the name of 'terrorism?'
by: Carol Ko 03-Aug-2011