private cloud

Hitachi, Microsoft ease private cloud deployment
Enterprises that build and operate their own private cloud have to bear high capex or upfront costs. To minimize investment risks, these businesses need to quickly and cost-effectively deploy private cloud infrastructures with predictable results and create an avenue for further automation and orchestration.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 01-May-2012

China's TravelSky runs mission-critical systems on private cloud

TravelSky's new private cloud environment will feature a new dashboard that gives administrators a single, integrated view of all cloud resources. The production cloud will also enable travel agencies, airline reservation offices and external systems to communicate with its mission-critical systems.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 18-Apr-2012
Survey: Great confidence in IT hinder collaborative cloud deployment
IDC Government Insights survey show that a government department that is highly confident in running its own private cloud environment may run the risk of not reaching out to other internal departments to collaborate on cloud opportunities. Read on for IDC's recommendations to optimize the benefits of cloud services.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 11-Apr-2012

Savvis launches private cloud, managed services in HK

Savvis delivers its infrastructure-as-a-service and managed services from its existing data centers in Hong Kong, which will continue to offer co-location hosting services. This complements Savvis' launch of public cloud solution in Japan and the opening of the second data center in Singapore two months ago.
by: Carol Ko 23-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

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

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

Japan's pet insurance company hosts Web on Savvis public cloud

Japan’s largest pet insurance company Anicom Holdings hosts its website with online purchase function on Savvis' public cloud service Symphony Public, which is delivered through Savvis’ data center in Tokyo.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 20-Feb-2012

Connecting the cloud universe

Some will argue that there is no ‘cloud universe’; that there are only a handful of components to the platform and that you can probably count the key modules on two hands. The focus should be not only on the ability to build interoperable interfaces between the different platforms but on driving singular standards of cloud computing.
by: Nathan Bell, Telstra International 17-Feb-2012