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Q&A: Is big data too big for SMEs?
Most IT industry conversations about big data revolve around large organisations such as banks and telcos that tap on sophisticated technologies to make sense of large volumes of complex data. Small...
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Cloud IT infrastructure spending to grow 24 per cent this year
Enterprises are expected to spend more on cloud services this year, with total cloud IT infrastructure spending worldwide slated to grow by 26.4 per cent, according to latest industry figures from...
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Trend Micro: Singapore users more reliant on cloud despite security concerns
Seven in 10 Internet users in Singapore store photos and documents on the cloud despite their reservations over its security, according to an online poll of 348 respondents by network security firm...
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Aliyun to open data centre in Singapore, eyes global cloud market
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is setting its sights on the global cloud computing market, starting with the launch of a new cloud data centre in Singapore later next month. The company’s cloud...
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Ingram Micro debuts Cloud Marketplace in Singapore
Ingram Micro has launched its cloud brokerage service in Singapore, giving cloud service providers (CSPs) here an additional source of cloud services that they can resell to businesses. Besides...
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Salesforce users grappling with integration challenges
As more enterprises tap on Salesforce to run their business, challenges in integrating the cloud-based platform with legacy on-premise software are bound to occur. According to a worldwide study by...
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On-premise has no future as an IT model
Owning on-premise IT infrastructure has no place in a world where the most valuable data is likely to come from outside the enterprise, according to a top Salesforce executive. “Legacy IT models were...
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Veeam plans bigger push into enterprises and the cloud
Backup software specialist Veeam plans to reach out to larger companies and help more of them tap on cloud services to backup their data. Laying out the company’s priorities in 2016 at the VeeamOn...
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Veeam’s revenue bookings surge 17 per cent in third quarter
Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev at the company’s annual VeeamON conference Veeam continues to maintain its momentum in the market for backup and recovery of business applications and data in the...
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Public cloud services to grow in mature APAC markets
Public cloud services in mature Asia-Pacific markets are expected to grow 8.7 per cent in 2015 to reach US$7.3 billion, up from US$6.7 billion in 2014, according to Gartner. These markets include...
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Alicloud opens second Hong Kong data centre
Alibaba’s cloud computing arm Alicloud has opened a second data centre in Hong Kong to meet the growing demand for cloud computing services in the Asia-Pacific region. According to a statement Tuesday,...
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Microsoft partners team up on Red Dot ERP
A group of Microsoft Dynamics partners in Singapore have banded together to offer Red Dot ERP, a suite of business applications targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. The...
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Microsoft, Google dominate nascent cloud e-mail market
Many large organisations continue to shun cloud e-mail services, preferring to host their email systems in-house or in private clouds, usually out of security concerns. In a survey by Gartner, a...
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Equinix teams up with Singapore IT firm on disaster recovery
Global data centre service provider Equinix has partnered with Singapore IT company Pantropic Online to provide a new disaster recovery (DR) service for enterprises. Delivered via Equinix’s Cloud...
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Dell partners Microsoft in cloud offering, expands support for multi-cloud...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Dell CEO Michael Dell and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger announcing a cloud partnership on stage at Dell Technologies World 2019. PHOTO: Dell handout After months of...
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Integration of global trade flows necessary to survive in digital economy
A participant trying his hand at a simulator at IBM’s Think conference earlier this week in Singapore. PHOTO: IBM Singapore Facebook page. IBM transformed the world 38 years ago, when it introduced...
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Going on the cloud? Think SD-WAN
Brought to you by Silver Peak PHOTO: Silver Peak The move to the cloud is a big part of any transformation effort today, as enterprises seek to deliver applications and services more quickly and...
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Oracle goes AI in a big way with cloud, database services
Oracle executive chairman, Larry Ellison, speaking to the audience at the company’s OpenWorld user event last week. PHOTO: Handout Cloud and autonomous technologies were two interconnected words that...
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Public cloud services to create 22,000 new jobs over next 5 years: Boston...
Inside a Google Cloud data centre. PHOTO: Google handout The deployment of public cloud services will help create 22,000 new jobs in Singapore, while boosting the country’s gross domestic product...
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Companies embarking on digital transformation are open to outages, so data...
PHOTO: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Data protection is a key issue that organisations must manage during their digital transformation journeys. Increasingly businesses have to prioritise data protection...
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