cloud computing
October 28th, 2014 | by
Aaron Tan IT head honchos in the Asia-Pacific region no longer see cloud computing as being new and disruptive, a new study has found. Instead, they are planning to ride on mega trends such as Internet of Things, mobility and big data to...
September 3rd, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew The biggest chunk of this S$520 million will be spent on infrastructure as a...
July 28th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew The idea of owning less, living more is appealing. But what happens when your pay-as-you-use oven or toothbrush stops...
February 4th, 2013 | by
Raymond Lau Companies will spend more on cloud-based services in the next few years, but the growth for one of the biggest technologies to greet the workplace in recent years is expected to slow down, according to research firm...
November 16th, 2012 | by
Aaron Tan The Asia-Pacific IT industry is entering a ‘nexus of forces’, where the integration of big data, cloud computing, social collaboration and mobile technologies will drive innovation and new business models in the region,...
June 6th, 2012 | by
Raymond Lau “The future of everything is mobile and social,” said Colin Miles, Chairman of MEF Asia and Vice President of InternetQ. Speaking last Thursday at UNWIRED 2012, Singapore’s only independent mobile and wireless conference,...
April 24th, 2012 | by
Alfred Siew Microsoft today opened a S$23 million technology centre in Singapore to enable companies to test out new technologies such as cloud computing and unified communications before rolling them out at their own...
October 18th, 2011 | by
Alfred Siew The Asia-Pacific region appears more keen to adopt cloud computing than Europe and the United States, according to a survey of industry leaders revealed by HP...
October 8th, 2011 | by
Aaron Tan Amidst the brouhaha surrounding the spat between Oracle and Salesforce at Oracle Openworld this year, Oracle unveiled a public cloud service to strengthen its position in the SaaS market. The world’s second largest...
October 5th, 2011 | by
Aaron Tan The growing rivalry between Salesforce.com and Oracle reached a pinnacle this week when Oracle reportedly canned a Salesforce.com keynote at its annual confab. In a statement today, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Oracle...
September 2nd, 2011 | by
Aaron Tan Salesforce has unveiled a slew of new tools and services to lure developers to its cloud-based platform. Leading the pack is Database.com, a cloud database that can power apps built for Android and iOS-based devices. These apps...
September 1st, 2011 | by
Aaron Tan Salesforce.com is deepening the social connections that underpin its suite of cloud computing products. Starting this October, its customer relationship management (CRM) customers will be able to see social profiles of customers...
April 23rd, 2011 | by
Raymond Lau Hootsuite, Reddit and Foursquare were among several online services down yesterday, as Amazon Web Services outage makes one take a harder look at the promises of cloud-based...
April 15th, 2011 | by
Chan Chi-Loong The cloud infrastructure market in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region is heating up. Savvis, a primarily US-based IT-services company that is looking to aggressively expand in Asia Pacific, is set to launch their virtual...
January 31st, 2011 | by
Chan Chi-Loong With the cloud computing paradigm showing no signs of stopping, big IT vendors like HP, IBM and Oracle are clamoring to provide lucrative end-to-end cloud computing solutions for enterprise customers. The one who wins these big...
September 20th, 2010 | by
Aaron Tan Oracle became the latest major IT vendor to tap into the red-hot enterprise cloud computing market today when it unveiled its Exalogic Elastic Cloud today at its annual Oracle Openworld technology confab. Targeted at large...
May 26th, 2010 | by
Chan Chi-Loong Every good story needs a hero and a villain. In Salesforce.com's case, that villain is Microsoft, who is the poster boy for enterprise software. Or so that is the narrative that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff wanted to...
July 1st, 2009 | by
Chan Chi-Loong Look into the world’s tech crystal ball and you’ll see only clouds. Even with my limited divination skills, this trend isn’t hard to spot. For the past year or so, many tech vendors — e.g. IBM, Microsoft,...
April 23rd, 2009 | by
Chan Chi-Loong The tech industry is full of jargon junkies. We invent acronyms, come up with complex-sounding terms that are little more than airbrushed revamps of existing concepts. Scarcely had the latest “in” buzzword exited the...
January 22nd, 2009 | by
Chan Chi-Loong Cloud computing and social media are big themes this year. Every major software vendor – from Microsoft to Google – is talking it up and jumping on the bandwagon. IBM Lotus just unveiled LotusLive Monday 19th Jan at this...
