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Hong Kong government hatches cloud biz start-ups

Hong Kong Cyberport's incubation program provides start-ups the needed financial assistance and support to build their cloud hosting businesses. According to Asia Cloud Computing Association, the best way forward to develop one's cloud capacity is to widen exposure and get mentorship.
by: Carol Ko 02-Mar-2012

CA Tech predicts: Every company can become a service provider

The cloud computing market is causing a big shift in business models, where every company can fundamentally become a service provider, said CA Technologies' cloud specialist Anna Gong. Read on to find her seven other predictions about cloud in 2012 and the key lessons learnt in 2011.
by: Carol Ko 27-Jan-2012

Reach new heights with the cloud

The last 12 months have marked a turning point for the cloud -- it has gathered force as an incubator for innovation and a safe haven for businesses large and small. But most of all it is teaching a new generation to reach beyond the boundaries of possibility.
by: Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services 19-Jan-2012

Amazon extends Start-Up Challenge worldwide

One week after M-Dot Network won last year's AWS Start-Up Challenge, it raised more than $1 million in angel funding and fielded calls from more than 30 interested VCs. In April 2011, the company obtained further funds after being acquired.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 01-Aug-2011

Mobile coupon firm wins cloud contest with US$86 start-up fund

M-Dot Network is a platform that let consumers receive digital coupons from a retailer's website via SMS, the Internet or on-site. By building their business on AWS, M-Dot can process one million concurrent transactions in a tenth of a second with no investment in physical data center.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 09-Dec-2010
Amazon Web Services names finalists for cloud start-up challenge
Amazon Web Services today named the five regional semi-finalists and the APAC region finalist for its fourth annual Start-Up Challenge. Contestants are all tech startups from Australia, India and Japan.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 24-Nov-2010

Private cloud -- The next big concerns after scaling

Cloud startups can produce an environment that looked like Amazon Web Services, but it inevitably got bogged down and ran too slowly to be useful with more than a handful of servers. Now, users and integrators say that the wide array of choices in cloud platforms and early growing pains are over.
by: Carl Brooks, Technology Writer, SearchCloudComputing.com 30-Aug-2010

Comparing ROI calculators for cloud computing

Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace all offer cloud ROI calculators, but can they really help you figure out the true worth of cloud computing? Experts advise that cloud calculators need to be taken in context -- make sure you understand the premise and assumptions of each one.
by: Carl Brooks, Technology Writer, SearchCloudComputing.com 23-Aug-2010

Amazon awards US$100K to innovative cloud adopters

The contest aims to encourage start-up companies to leverage the AWS cloud platform to quickly and cost-effectively innovate and build the infrastructure for their businesses.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 18-Aug-2010

Ovum: Why cloud start-ups fail?

New data storage services based on public cloud storage are emerging. Because of their economies of scale, these services have the potential to lighten the heavy burden of on-premise enterprise storage and backup, and to provide alternative mechanisms for disaster recovery and data distribution.
by: Tim Stammers, Ovum 22-Jul-2010