IDC: 50% Asian Sr. Execs favor Cloud Computing
By Tarry Singh at 5 March, 2009, 4:54 pm
Cloud computing is being used, or considered, by more than half Asia Pacific’s senior IT executives and cost-cutting is the key driver, according to new IDC research.
Some 11 per cent of those surveyed are already using cloud-based solutions and a further 41 per cent are either evaluating or piloting cloud computing solutions.
Cloud computing has been [...]
CloudCamp Singapore fails as Sun pushes too hard!
By Tarry Singh at 25 January, 2009, 1:06 pm
After the talk, MC asked audience to propose topics for unconference and the audience did (key providers, security concern and definition of cloud computing). First 15 mins or so was quite good with audience defining what’s cloud computing and arguing that cloud computing is still an early stage for using inside enterprise and government sector [...]
Read More >>Satyam Saga continues: (PwC) Price WaterHouse Coopers Auditors arrested
By Tarry Singh at 24 January, 2009, 1:52 pm
Senior partners S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri were booked by Andhra Pradesh police CID on charges of fraud (Section 420 of the IPC) and criminal conspiracy (120B) in the Rs 7,800 crore scam.
A conviction for fraud, if proven, carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and that for criminal conspiracy can range from [...]
Indian firm, Frontier goes strong with Virtualization!
By Tarry Singh at 24 January, 2009, 2:30 am
Frontier Business Systems Pvt. Ltd., an IT infrastructure solutions and services company, has been offering its customers the complete portfolio of solutions and services required to design, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructure environments.
Last year, Frontier added Virtualization consulting, solutions and services technology to its professional services portfolio. “Virtualisation has been rated by Gartner [...]
Satyam Computers had 13,000 ghost employees!
By Tarry Singh at 22 January, 2009, 12:38 pm
Satyam Computer Services Ltd., the software exporter at the center of India’s biggest fraud inquiry, padded employee numbers to siphon off cash and forged documents to support fake bank deposits, a prosecutor said.
Satyam had about 33 billion rupees ($672 million) of “fictitious and non-existent” accounts, public prosecutor K. Ajay Kumar told a hearing for the [...]
M&A: Time for European buyout of Satyam Computers
By Tarry Singh at 21 January, 2009, 10:15 am
The DealBook of NYT are suggesting or even expecting some stakeholders to grab Satyam Computers, but I see this as a great opportunity for any European firm, possible a SI vendor but it could also be any other vendor in HW/SW business, to go after this firm. The timing may not sound right but it [...]
Read More >>3PAR goes to Asia with Utility storage for the Clouds
By Tarry Singh at 21 January, 2009, 7:48 am
Fremont, CA, January 21, 2009–3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that it has expanded sales in Asia through a new channel partnership with data management provider PTC System (S) Pte Ltd., based in Singapore. PTC has agreed to sell and support 3PAR Utility Storage systems to enterprise customers in [...]
Read More >>Thai Group to implement Cloud Computing
By Tarry Singh at 7 January, 2009, 6:14 am
Like I have been saying it for almost three years now. The extended-BRIC countries will be fast and nimble in not only effectively experimenting, POC’ing but also eventually deploying CC than the ones burdened with the legacy infrastructures and legacy working styles. Many firms that have several advantages such as the proposed FPI (which will [...]
Read More >>Alibaba to open Cloud Computing Center in Nanjing!
By Tarry Singh at 6 January, 2009, 12:30 am
Alibaba.com, China’s leading B2B e-commerce portal, announced its software subsidiary Alisoft has inked the strategic cooperation framework agreement with Nanjing municipal government to build the country’s first “e-commerce cloud computing center” in the city, sources reported.
Pursuant to the agreement, Alisoft plans to start the construction as early as the beginning of 2009, and the initial [...]
Cloud Computing APAC: SalesForce goes to India
By Tarry Singh at 26 November, 2008, 4:40 am
Salesforce.com sees India as one of the potential market for cloud computing. “Cloud computing is the next stage of SaaS. As we have had an experience of more than 10 years in this foray, cloud computing was the obvious next step. When we were holding our press conference about the same in San Francisco, a [...]
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