vendor interview

As a cloud service provider enabler, NetApp's cloud implementations are done through partners and integrators. In 2010, the cloud business contributed to about 10% of the company's revenue in the APAC.
by: Carol Ko 04-Jan-2011
Last year, Equinix has aggressively expanded its data center space in Asia, on top of the existing eight in the region. In 2011, the company will expand two existing data centers in Singapore for colocation and interconnection services, and will build three new ones in Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
by: Carol Ko 03-Jan-2011
Setting sights on India, Hong Kong, China and Singapore, Hitachi Data Systems is prepared to capitalize the huge market potential in the telco sector, which is supporting an exponential growth in mobile data usage.
by: Carol Ko 03-Jan-2011
While EMC has kept itself busy with about 40 acquisitions in the past five years, it invested about 10% of its annual sales in R&D, including cloud technologies. In 2010, the company introduced 30+ solutions related to virtualization, storage, security, information and content management.
by: Carol Ko 31-Dec-2010
NTT Com Asia predicted that in the next few years, cloud computing will fuse with other emerging technologies such as mobility, as more apps will run on the cloud platform accessible by mobile devices.
by: Carol Ko 30-Dec-2010
In the past year, IBM's extensive 'cloud' footprint wasn't marked by a busy agenda of data center expansion, but by big wins in cloud computing contracts and concrete steps taken to forge security standards through partnerships with other key stakeholders in the IT industry.
by: Carol Ko 30-Dec-2010
Despite a slower cloud adoption rate in Asia compared to North America and EMEA, Rackspace sees Australia and Japan being the most mature in cloud adoption in Asia. As CIOs continue to test apps in the cloud, there will be a shift from an exploration of cloud computing to experimentation.
by: Carol Ko 29-Dec-2010
India-based Tata Communications said cloud adoption in the emerging markets is held back by a lack of understanding of the technology. As businesses become more comfortable with public clouds over the next few years, many of them will adopt a "cloud only" policy for low to medium sensitive applications or projects.
by: Carol Ko 29-Dec-2010
Japan-based Fujitsu has been focusing on the delivery of Infrastructure-as-a-Service since 2010. To date, Fujitsu has already set up 40 data centers in Asia, and has invested US$1.1 billion in cloud-related business in 2010 alone, up 54% from the previous year.
by: Carol Ko 29-Dec-2010
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