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A virtual nightmare for traditional outsourcers
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» Asia was a bit slow adopting virtualisation, but is now leading the push to cloud computing. However, the road to transformation is a long one with many questions that need to be asked.
Recruiter shares his thoughts
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» Peter Fischbach was a serial entrepreneur and computer contractor in New York before he came to Thailand in the '80s. His first job was for a purchase order system for the United Nations in BASIC in DOS. Soon after settling down, he found out there were no IT recruitment and placement companies so instead of continuing as a programmer, he set up ISM recruitment and now lays claims to one of the largest if not the largest database of Thai IT professionals. He shared his experience on the Thai IT scene over two decades with Database.
Peppercan takes on the world
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» A small Thai multinational is taking on the world with its small, caring ERP (enterprise resource planning) called Peppercan, written in ruby on rails and delivered through the web by a software as a service model.
Thai banks face strong competition in Asean
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010
» Thai banks will need to get their act together to cope with increased competition when deregulation happens in 2015 with the advent of the Asean Economic Community.
The final nail, not a new era
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010
» As Thailand celebrates one year of ToT's 3G network, others will mourn the passing of the Frequency Allocation Act. Instead of marking the beginning of a new dawn in Thailand's telecommunications saga, the act marks the final nail in the coffin for our short-lived attempts to reform the telecommunications sector from a 90s-style state-run concession to a modern, deregulated licensed one.
Disappoint people at a rate they can endure
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/11/2010
» I wonder what Professor Jamison would think of our beloved National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). Quite a bit, I am sure, but he was tight-lipped when I asked him as he also works for the seven great ones in a consultancy position. Let's see.
Sybase 365 helping telcos to shift focus
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 20/10/2010
» With voice becoming a commodity, many mobile operators are looking at expanding into remittance, international remittance and mobile commerce to boost their fortunes. One company offers to help telcos get to grips with the harsh reality of the banking industry and making this vision a reality.
Peering through the dust that's settled over 3G
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 06/10/2010
» So now that the 3G dust is settling, one is left to ponder what happened. Finally, after almost two years of dithering, ToT is moving ahead with its 3G network.
Our servers and storage are so 2005
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/09/2010
» It has often been said that in the world of Enterprise IT, Thailand has world class banks and telecom companies, and Third World everything else. This was painfully evident during a trip to Chiang Mai with a certain big IT vendor who highlighted a couple of their star clients which could at best be described as being state of the art circa 2005.
The transformation of the data centre
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/09/2010
» Virtualisation, cloud computing and smart devices are changing the nature of the data centre. All the major network vendors have their vision and their name. Brocade's new data centre architecture is called Brocade One and, unlike the competition, it is not just a vision but equipment ships this month to greatly simplify data centre architecture.