private cloud

Hong Kong Quality HealthCare to deploy BI, private cloud
According to IBM, the project involves the consolidation of more than 100 servers into a single private cloud environment that hosts QHMS’ mission-critical front end and back end systems that serve more than 600 medical centers in Hong Kong and Macau.
by: Computerworld Hong Kong staff 22-Dec-2011
IDC: Outsourcing 3.0 to replace traditional ITO, BPO
With Outsourcing 3.0, the cloud will metamorphose into a universal service catalog of individual cloud services. This will begin to replace both traditional information technology outsourcing and business process outsourcing engagements as well as on-premises infrastructure.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 29-Nov-2011

DreamWorks Animation taps into hybrid cloud for global resources

For DreamWorks, the beauty of producing animation on a hybrid cloud is its ability to use infrastructure resources rapidly and as needed. This enables their artists to "focus on making the movies they want to make, not just the movies that fit within the resources within our walls."
by: Carol Ko 28-Nov-2011

French drug company runs biz critical apps on private cloud

Following its data center consolidation from six to one in Asia Pacific, Sanofi will deploy its business critical applications including ERP, email and financial apps on Equinix’s International Business Exchange data center, with the aim for higher levels of collaboration and performance.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 24-Nov-2011

HK, China hospitals simplify content management on cloud

Using HDS' content platform, St Teresa Hospital Hong Kong streamlines the provisioning of the medical record and images in its health system into one single content platform, thereby automates its entire storage management.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 21-Nov-2011

CA: PaaS to rise and offer specialized industry content

CA Technologies’ Chief Technology Architect Trevor Bunker predicted that in the next three years, private cloud will grow exponentially, public cloud adoption will stabilize or even decrease, whereas Platform-as-a-Service will increasingly be adopted in new innovate business models.
by: Carol Ko 15-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
Unitas Global expands private cloud hosting to Hong Kong
US-based Unitas Global expands its enterprise private cloud hosting service to Hong Kong to target at the financial sector. The company adds new technical staff to its existing Hong Kong regional headquarter office to support its managed hosting and IT infrastructure services in the region.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 11-Oct-2011
How to build a turnkey private and hybrid cloud
Companies skeptics about public cloud are opting to deploy private and/or hybrid cloud solutions which provides them the benefits of a public cloud while keeping their infrastructure under their leading to dramatic cost and time savings.
by: Garima Thockchom, CIO US 18-Sep-2011

How 4 cloud-adopting CIOs tackled business challenges

The CIO should utilize private clouds with full cloud service automation which should have a self service portal for IT and the LoBs. The portal will have templates which allow the IT manager to provision hardware, software and applications via an onsite pay-as-you-go model in minutes.
by: Michael Conlin, HP 29-Jul-2011