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Fujitsu invests US$30m in new China data center

With US$30 million investment, the new Fujitsu South China Data Centre will become Fujitsu's "first world-class data center in China." It has been listed in the "Guangdong Top 500" modern industrial projects that provide advanced IT support, and professional data storage solutions for the South China region.
by: Carol Ko 03-May-2012

Movideo commits US$4m in APAC video SaaS delivery

Australia-based Movideo signs a four-year technical alliance with Microsoft to deliver its online video service on Azure. The company's CEO talks about how online video is delivered and consumed in Asia, the strongest business model for online video delivery, and his first steps taken to enter the Chinese market.
by: Carol Ko 02-Apr-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

PwC bonds 5 telcos, Oracle in Asia Pacific Cloud Alliance

The Asia Pacific Cloud Alliance, formed by five telcos in the Asia Pacific and Oracle plus independent adviser PricewaterhouseCoopers, will develop cloud interoperability standards around security and privacy, quality of service and SLA, as well as mitigate service provider lock-in.
by: Carol Ko and Sheila Lam 07-Feb-2012

Operational barriers for telco cloud services

Besides lacking brand identity in IT services provision, telcos must overcome various obstacles such as bringing internal network and IT teams together, enabling sales teams, and ensuring that OSS and BSS systems can deliver on cloud's on-demand nature.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 25-Jul-2011
Ovum: Public IP insufficient for biz-grade cloud computing
Although cloud computing is a well-defined concept, it will require a strong physical network infrastructure to live up to its promise. These will need improved interconnectivity for resiliency, load balancing, new transmission capacity; and added intelligence from new optical and IP hardware.
by: Ovum analysts 01-Jun-2011

Cloud computing -- the telco cloud dilemma

While telcos have a unique opportunity to position cloud computing as an extension of their managed networking solutions, most do not understand the complexity of cloud-based services as they are an amalgamation of hundreds or even thousands of components.
by: John Eng, Parallels Asia Pacific 28-Apr-2011

Verizon reviews: Building for peak capacity is bygone mindset

Last year, Verizon Business launched a series of cloud computing services comprising storage, security and enterprise mobility. While cloud adoption gathers speed in Asia, CIOs are advised to ask their cloud providers whether they receive regular third-party security assessments.
by: Carol Ko 07-Jan-2011

PCCW reviews: Data center networks to expand in HK and China

With "a full spectrum of cloud services," the Hong Kong-based ICT solutions provider defines cloud computing as one of its key business lines. In the coming months, PCCW Solutions will pour resources in enabling independent software vendors to offer cloud services on its platform.
by: Carol Ko 29-Dec-2010

Cloud agility test: telcos versus data center independents

Telecoms carriers are advised to take advantage of existing relationships, create new ecosystems and partnerships within their data center portfolio and show clients that they can meet their needs.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 22-Nov-2010