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Hongkong and Shanghai hotels book rooms in hybrid cloud

To centralize its IT infrastructure and better align its processes and systems, The Hongkong and Shanghai hotel group adopts a hybrid cloud infrastructure to leverage additional capacity on demand during peak booking periods.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 14-Nov-2012

VMware Cloud Index: Business priorities prevail

VMware’s 3rd annual VMware Cloud Index, a commissioned study conducted across Asia Pacific by Forrester Consulting and ITR (in Japan only), has signaled a new level of cloud maturity in the Asia Pacific region.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 14-Nov-2012

VMware Cloud Index: Business priorities prevail

VMware’s 3rd annual VMware Cloud Index, a commissioned study conducted across Asia Pacific by Forrester Consulting and ITR (in Japan only), has signaled a new level of cloud maturity in the Asia Pacific region.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 14-Nov-2012

Philippine education department IT takes front seat with Google cloud

The 600,000-strong workforce of the Philippine Department of Education -- teachers, staff, school admins and top managers -- are moving to the cloud via Google Apps for Education. The landmark project gave out email addresses to all its employees nationwide.
by: Eden Estopace, eGov Innovation 06-Nov-2012
Telekom Malaysia-owned VADS attains vCloud validation
VADS Berhad (VADS), the ICT and BPO arm of Telekom Malaysia Berhad, has attained VMware vCloud Powered status for its VADS Cloud Services and become a member of the VMware Service Provider Program.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 06-Nov-2012
Orange hits a six with Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia is deploying Orange Business Services’ Flexible Computing Premium IaaS to not only meet its growth needs over the next 36 months, but also consolidate and integrate its current environment with the cloud solution.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 05-Nov-2012

NetSuite SaaS melds e-commerce, core biz apps

NetSuite integrates e-commerce and business software in a single application as more organizations with on-premise solutions move to the cloud. The SaaS provider counts Groupon, Zalora and Rebonz.com as well as Philippine-based Jollibee Foods Corp among its customers.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 31-Oct-2012

Reval SaaS tackles dynamic treasury and risk management

Liquidity and funding risk may be a top concern for Asian treasury professionals dissatisfied with their ability to forecast their cash positions but only 7.5% of the professionals polled by Reval identified operational risk an area worth their attention.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 30-Oct-2012

IBM opens first Tier III+ data center in Hong Kong

The Big Blue yesterday opened its fourth data center in Hong Kong, a Tier 3+ facility in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate that represents a multi-million US dollar investment.
by: Carol Ko 25-Oct-2012
PwC: TVB underestimates Miss Hong Kong voting traffic
PwC estimates that the total number of system transactions created as a result of voting activity within the hour between 10:02 pm and 11:02 pm far exceeded the predefined hourly quota limit of 12.8 million system transactions.
by: Computerworld Hong Kong staff 24-Oct-2012