By Asia Cloud Forum editors 31-Oct-2012 Cloud computing adoption worldwide has doubled since 2010, but 38% of the respondents in a global Ernst & Young‘s survey said no security measures were implemented to mitigate risks. Instead, organizations have been implementing incremental improvements to their information security capabilities to provide short-term solutions — without tackling the issues associated with the overall information security threat. In [...]

By 2015, 65 percent of enterprises will have a mobile device management strategy. About 90 percent of enterprises are deploying smartphones and tablets. This large increase in the use of mobile devices by enterprises is creating IT system challenges. In a separate Gartner study, for example, devising Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies is cited as a major concern of enterprises. To manage the [...]

Sound Telecom, a leading provider of 24 hour Telephone Answering, Call Center and Cloud-Based Communication Services sees meteoric rise in social media presence by partnering with social media agency, Project Bionic. Seattle, Washington, October 30, 2012 – Sound Telecom, a nationwide provider of 24-hour Telephone Answering, Call Center and Cloud-based Communication Services, just got “Liked” on Facebook. But that is not all. Sound Telecom [...]

NetSuite counts major e-commerce players Groupon, Zalora and Rebonz.com as well as Philippine-based Jollibee Foods Corp among its customers. The latter is one of the cloud-based financials and ERP software provider’s largest customers in the region.   The quick service restaurant chain, currently expanding aggressively into the US, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei, has deployed NetSuite’s OneWorld cloud-based ERP system [...]

MobileIron, the mobile device management provider, announced that the company now supports Windows Phone 8 applications and devices. It also offers mobile application management (MAM) capabilities on Windows 8 as it does for other operating systems. This means that IT teams that use MobileIron’s services can then include Windows 8 devices in their mobile environments. The same can be said for mobile workforce systems. [...]

Subscribers to MSDN and TechNet are now able to access the release to manufacturing build (RTM) of Microsoft’s new 2013 Office client, as of October 24, 2012. The suite also includes Office servers Lync Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, and SharePoint Server 2013. Originally Microsoft released to manufacturing the final version of Office 2013 server, client and services on October 11, 2012. At this [...]

Polycom recently announced that it has attained its Q3 earnings goals with a total of $335 million in revenue. Although this figure is below the 2011 quota, the company did match Wall Street’s predictions this time. This quarter’s revenue follows a considerably balanced previous quarter and continues Polycom’s even keel.  The company, a leading provider of video conferencing solutions, announced a net loss of [...]

Microsoft released Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets and PCs on October 26, 2012, and at the same time, announced the availability of several new apps designed for these touch-centric devices. The Microsoft-developed Windows 8 and Windows RT apps can now be downloaded in final form. The apps include the recently developed, Windows 8/Windows RT OneNote and Windows 8/Windows RT Lync. Both applications are [...]