SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler
In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are
iPad Singapore – nice price, no telcos
I was so-o tempted to buy one in Japan last week, so I’m happy that TODAY reports the Apple iPad will go on sale here in Singapore on Friday (23rd Jul 2010, with iPhone 4 expected on the 30th). The biggest surprise for me was that it’s only selling through Apple and authorised resellers. None [...]
Looking East Again: More Hotness On The Singapore Front
Regular readers of my post know about my strong belief that the future of Cloud Computing is an ecosystem of open federated clouds. The world is very diverse and “decentralized” and the most important invention after wheel, the internet, is also decentralized and open. So, in my opinion, the technology that is developed on top [...]
Looking East: Singapore Prepares For Widespread Cloud Adoption
Image via Wikipedia While the tech world is busy talking about the Cloud Computing with a focus on US, Singapore is quietly preparing itself for the Cloud Computing revolution. Singapore’s major telecom vendor, Singtel, along with grid computing vendor, Platform Computing, are offering Cloud infrastructure and applications solutions under the Alatum brand. Alatum offers these [...]
Government's Role in IT
I’ve always been a member of the school of thought that says that Governments should keep out of areas that private businesses play in. That said there are cases where a focused provision of services by Governments can prove an enabler to a countries businesses, and by extension the economy. A good example of a [...]
