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Assess business needs first before cloud move
News Cloud computing cuts costs and frees up manpower, but companies must evaluate business needs before deciding to adopt platform, analyst advises.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data security, Network security, Business planning, Disaster Recovery, IBM Corp., Security, Information Technology, Conference, International Data Corp.
Alatum touts local presence as differentiator
News Singapore-based cloud provider says local presence helps win more enterprise customers, giving it edge over bigger players such as Amazon.
Tags: Cloud computing, grid computing, Citrix Systems Inc., SingTel, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Customer, network
Open source adoption 'anomaly' in Philippines
News Country's private sector is unexpected early adopters of open source, which analysts say will be further boosted by entrance of Google's upcoming Chrome OS.
Tags: Open source, Support, Open-source Software, Philippines, Google Inc., International Data Corp., Survey, Asia-Pacific, Open source, Melvin G. Calimag
Asean CIOs list biz intelligence top priority
News Some 87 percent of CIOs in region see business intelligence and analytics as top priority, finds IBM study.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Business, Business development/management, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Survey, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Asean
E-media contest for Asean
Blogs SEACEM, ChangeFusion and Freevoice are now accepting applications for "ASEAN E-Media Startups Competition". The goal ...
Analyst: IBM needs to 'out-innovate' with Notes
News For Lotus Notes to wrest market share from Microsoft's dominance in e-mail collaboration, IBM needs to place bets on trends before they happen, says Forrester Research.
Tags: E-mail clients, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, work flow software, Software, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM Lotus Notes, e-mail, Emerging Market, software-as-a-service
'Ferociously loyal' users to stand by Sun
News Loyalty, cost and little reason to defect will help keep customers by Sun Microsystems' side, while the hardware vendor awaits approval of Oracle acquisition.
Tags: Servers, Server platforms, Acquisitions, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Unix, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server
Red Hat takes developer efforts to Malaysia
News CEO Jim Whitehurst lauds country's open source deployments in public sector, and launches Red Hat program to drive adoption and innovation.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Red Hat Inc., Open-source Software, Training, Singapore, software company, Malaysia, public sector, ISV
Gartner: 'Speak the CFO's language'
News With the economic situation forcing IT budgets to get cut, an IBM finance director and Gartner analyst offer tips to CIOs on how to get projects approved.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, IBM Corp., CFO, Project, IT-spending, Gartner Inc., CIO, analyst, finance
Asean midsize firms' CRM spending 'nascent'
News Spending on customer relationship management by region's midsize businesses is small but will grow 18 percent despite downturn, finds new study by AMI-Partners.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Sales force automation, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, Software, CRM, Tool, Midsize Business, Singapore, Sales
'Smart' move can help Asian firms ride slump
News Investing in a "dynamic infrastructure", part of Big Blue's "smarter planet" vision, can help region's data centers prepare for growth in the future, says IBM exec.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Virtualization, Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Infrastructure, International Data Corp., Singapore, asset management, Service Management
M'sia telecom spending to stay resilient in 2009
News Country's telecommunication operators will look to managed services as new revenue streams, while sector is expected to grow to US$6.7 billion, says analyst.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Communications, Sales/revenue, Mobile, Telecommunications, International Data Corp., Small And Medium Business, Broadband
IT vendors ready partners for new tech
News Beyond providing online and physical training facilities and support mechanisms, companies like IBM and HP, also subsidize training costs of their partners.
Tags: Business, Business development/management, Growth strategies and tools, Channel management, Sales, Partner, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Training, HPSS
Fujitsu unveils new S'pore data center
News Touted as the IT vendor's greenest in the region, the facility boasts features such as monitoring controls that help save up to 30 percent of customers' power bills.
Tags: Data centers, Servers, LANs and WANs, Thailand, Singapore, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Southeast Asia, Fujitsu East Data Centre, Server
Services with a 'green'
Insight Though slowed by the economic downturn, NEC Asia is focused on greening its IT and growing its services business, gunning for big contracts such as Singapore's SOE, says CEO Kiyofumi Kusaka.
Tags: Outsourcing, Infrastructure/architecture management, Business applications, Leadership, Personal Computers, Servers, NEC Corp., Security, Mobile, India
