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Amazon to boost Asia's cloud assurance
News update Cloud provider's push into Asia-Pacific is expected to provide a boost of assurance to companies of cloud computing's viability, says analyst.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, SingTel, software, Amazon.com Inc., Asia, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Storage, Web Service
Asia's search hits record high in September
News Search queries in region clocks 38.6 billion last month, compared to 33 billion last year, with Google leading way as preferred search site, study shows.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., search engine, Search, Web sites, Asia-Pacific, Australia, South Korea
IT will lead Asia's economic recovery
News Region's tech spending in 2009 will outpace gross domestic product, growing by 4.8 percent to reach US$300 billion in 2009, finds new IDC study.
Tags: Growth strategies and tools, Microsoft Windows, Personal applications, Business, Microsoft Corp., software, Information Technology, revenue, Asia, International Data Corp.
Asian travelers want to fly by mobile
News Travelers want to use mobile phones to access more travel services including flight check-in and seat change, survey finds.
Tags: Mobile applications, Traveller, Sabre Holdings, application service provider, Travelers Companies Inc., Traveller, Survey, advertisement, mobile, Mobile applications
1H09: Asia-Pacific and ITO the bright spots
Blogs With the 2009 first half results for the sourcing market now out, it's worth digging into them a bit to see what they te...
China SaaS growth to exceed 'traditional IT'
News Country's software-as-a-service market will grow 56 percent next year, exceeding IT sector that includes on-premise software, says report.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Security, software, Information Technology, CRM, Asia-Pacific, On-demand, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), security application, China
Portables, China boost APAC PC market
News Asia-Pacific PC market grew 18 percent to hit 23.4 million units in third quarter, boosted by government procurements in China and Taiwan, IDC finds.
Tags: Personal Computers, Hewlett-Packard Co., International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Sales, Japan, ASUS, Pakistan, mini-notebook, China
S'pore employees want 'ethical' companies
News Some 66 percent of Singapore employees consider company's ethical conduct very important factor in deciding where to work, new study reveals.
Tags: Employee communications, Recruiting, Generation Y, Employee, Worker, Generation X, Survey, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore
HP zeros in on converged data centers
News Wide portfolio and supply chain efficiencies make HP's new offering to enterprises more relevant than "hobby" competitors, according to Asia-based exec.
Tags: Business applications, Data centers, Data Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, network, Business applications, Asia-Pacific, Storage, Server
APAC to see fastest software revenue growth
News Asia-Pacific software market will churn US$22.1 billion in revenue next year, boosted by large domestic user base, according to Gartner.
Tags: Business applications, Software, Region, compound annual growth rate, Application Software Expenditure, revenue, Information Technology, Software, Business applications, South Korea
Overland cable connects India and China
News Reliance Globalcom's new terrestrial cable connecting India and China, aims to reduce latency and provide redundancy in case of subsea cable break.
Tags: Bandwidth, Networking technology, Disaster recovery, Asia, India, cable system, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Cable
2010: Software spend up, IT budgets down
News Software budgets in the Asia-Pacific region in 2010 will grow 4.4 percent over last year, while overall IT expenditure will dip by 3 percent, new Gartner study shows.
Tags: IT budgeting, Business applications, IT Budget, India, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Australia, Gartner Inc., Malaysia
'Best effort' insufficient for cloud
News Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.
Tags: Service level management, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, NTT Corp., SingTel, network, Uptime, Asia-Pacific, SLA, Service Management
APAC security growth 'remarkable'
News Security market in Asia-Pacific region enjoyed double-digit expansion in 2008 despite downturn, Gartner says.
Tags: Security, SMB, Growth, IT Security, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Australia, Gartner Inc.
Smaller APAC telcos innovate to compete
News Tier two and three mobile operators in Asia-Pacific bank on innovative services to grow, says market player, who adds Singapore telcos can do more.
Tags: Customer support, Convergys Corp., Hutchison, Operator, BSS, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Indonesia, billing, average revenue per user
