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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.
QAD offers laser focus
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» Enterprise software maker QAD offers ERP (enterprise resource planning) with a difference. Rather than being able to everything like the competition, it focuses only on a few industries and does so with a laser focus.
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.
VMWare takes cloud to new level
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/12/2010
» Virtual servers are now being deployed faster than physical servers and move to cloud will mean that systems management will need to change to cater for thousands or hundreds of thousands of virtual machines in a typical data centre. VMWare, leaders in the virtualisation space, want a seat at your board table to be part of this sea change that is revolutionising the enterprise IT space.
Symantec boosts authentication
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» After 27 years of providing security for end points, Symantec has launched a new logo and acquired a number of companies that together will provide the trust, strong identity and encryption it needs to protect a world where servers are virtualised and are somewhere in the cloud outside of the company's data centre and where CIOs need to be responsible for data that flows readily to their employee's personal smart phones.
Categorising the world's websites
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» Blue Coat has launched a new traffic-shaping appliance aimed at giving IT departments visibility as to what is personal, what is business and what is the grey area in between, now that everything from games to social networks to corporate enterprise applications are accessed via Internet browsers over the HTTP protocol.
When disaster strikes, why doesn't Thailand learn its lessons?
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 27/10/2010
» Disasters. With the Indian Ocean earthquake back in 2004 and the resulting tsunami, one would think Thailand would have learned a thing or two about handling disasters. Perhaps, but many of those lessons were not put to use when the floods hit the country last week.
Next generation data centres
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 13/10/2010
» HP has deployed its next generation data centre in a container - the HP performance-optimised data centre, or POD - for the first time in Asia-Pacific, in Australia.
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.
Cloud helps cut through uncertainty
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/09/2010
» With uncertain business climate outlooks, companies are looking towards cloud computing as a way of increasing agility and reducing costs.