Market
Is India the emerging cloud computing capital of the world?
For a country like India, the importance of a technology like cloud computing is manifold as a majority of small and medium enterprises who cannot afford technology in the current form can now afford to adopt the latest technologies. [Continue]
APAC financial services firms slow to get on the cloud
Asia/Pacific financial services institutions are still taking a measured approach to cloud computing, as the industry awaits further clarity on cloud computing regulations and better articulation of business benefits by IT vendors. The findings were revealed in a report by IDC Financial Insights, “Perspective: A Slow Ascent Toward the Cloud for Asia/Pacific Financial Services,” which [Continue]
Asia Pacific healthcare high on cloud
Asia Pacific healthcare service providers are looking at cloud adoption, according to the latest IDC Health Insights report, “Cloud Computing in Healthcare: An Asia/Pacific View.” Although the adoption is still not widespread, the future looks promising for this technology as 69 percent of IT decision makers across the region said they currently have budget assigned [Continue]
Industry
India: Mapping Cloud readiness
According to the BSA Survey, while there is a lot of activity revolving around Cloud computing in India, the laws have been unable to keep pace with the rapid developments in technology. Chris [Continue]
Cloud computing to create 2 million jobs in India by 2015, says study
Cloud computing will generate some 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015, and India alone will create over 2 million, predicts a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by International Data [Continue]
Bringing value to cloud applications
Itzik Weinstein, CEO, Telco Systems, explains what he sees, what the vision is, and how he sees the difference in the cloud providers. There are two main categories that we see. One of them is the [Continue]
Cloud really drives differences in how people approach their work: Clive Longbottom
Cloud Computing changes everything – or does it? Well, you could look at Cloud Computing and say if you moved to a full Cloud Computing model you may not need a data centre at all any longer. [Continue]
Finance/Investment
Infosys offers small cooperative banks cloud computing for ‘anywhere anytime’ banking.
Data centre owners will want to reduce their Opex and by spending a little bit on Capex: Bruce Bateman
Microsoft bags largest cloud computing deal in India
Why Should Investors Care About Amazon’s Cloud Services?
EMC’s ‘Triple Play’: Cloud, Big Data and Security Generate 11 Percent Revenue Increase
Dell Acquires Wyse Tech to Gain Cloud Share
Infrastructure
Red Hat to set up its second largest R&D centre in India
Red Hat India, the Indian arm of the New York Stock Exchange listed $1.13 billion American Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source technology solutions is setting up its second largest research and development and support centre in India outside the US as it [Continue]Security
Data, not devices, vital to enterprise security
As cloud computing continues to mature and more companies incorporate it within their IT infrastructures, there is a need to focus on protecting access of corporate data over the hardware used to house the information. This would include beefing up one’s monitoring and access management practices, says Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen. [Continue]
Technology
Cloud Computing – Shifting Focus to PaaS, Big Data Analytics and Mobility
If you look at the hour hand of a clock you will not notice the movement, but you cannot conclude from your observation that hour hand does not move. [Continue]Government, Legal/Regulations
Five Popular Cloud Myths Busted
Cloud computing can be a powerful tool in meeting fast changing business demand and opportunities. Today’s economic climate requires [Continue]
Government G-Cloud leads the way
We don’t usually associate government with industry-leading IT but the UK government’s G-Cloud is a potential exception. Today, the perception [Continue]
U.S. Department Of Defense’s Shift To Cloud Computing Saves Costs
The high costs of operating, securing and maintaining a large variety of often redundant legacy stove-piped networks has steered the U.S. Department [Continue]
Trends
Foreign Invasion Through Cloud Computing
Today, American culture has invaded every country with Coca Cola and McDonald’s, which have become integral parts of popular culture everywhere. [Continue]
The Future Of Infotech Is Mobile And Cloud
The Mobile Cloud: Ready or Not, Here It Comes: The mobile cloud is a crucial and inevitable development that will have a massive effect on mobile [Continue]
AMD deploys HP’s Networking Solution & Server Technologies
HP announced that AMD has improved business efficiency and streamlined operations by consolidating its worldwide data centers and standardizing on HP [Continue]
Corporate/Companies
HP is betting big on cloud adoption in India.
The world’s number one PC vendor with a 16.9% global market share of shipments announced the launch of its HP Converged Cloud in Mumbai. [Continue]
Telco Systems Unveils New Carrier Cloud Gateway and Aggregation Platform in Asia Pacific
T-Metro 8000 provides industry’s first open architecture platform with best in class carrier Ethernet/MPLS density, scalability and price [Continue]
7 Ways IBM Will Make $7 Billion In Cloud
IBM in the near future will unveil a comprehensive initiative that better ties together its multi-pronged efforts to offer cloud computing services, [Continue]
News
World’s Most Innovative Companies Run Business On NetSuite Cloud
NetSuite Inc., the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that six of the World’s [Continue]
HP Delivers Agility without Compromise with HP Converged Cloud
HP has announced HP Converged Cloud, the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture spanning [Continue]
NetEvents Hong Kong Highlights
The Carrier Cloud future… SDN’s killer app… Datacentre modularisation…The launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification… One global data [Continue]