Author: Edwin Yapp

SoftLayer’s high hopes for Asia
Global cloud infrastructure provider SoftLayer Technologies has set its sights on Asia for its next growth phase, targeting to develop strategic partners in four countries within the region, according to a company official.
Asian SMB cloud adoption leapfrogs advanced market in US
Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Asia are embracing public cloud computing and its adoption in the region has surpassed that in the United States, according to industry players.
Opportunities abound for cloud service providers: Parallels
Web hosting and cloud service providers serving the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) sectors are well primed to take advantage of the diversity created by the cloud computing era, according to cloud services enablement player Parallels.
Embrace changing trends or perish, says Gartner
A number of new trends in information and communication technology (ICT) have emerged in the past year and enterprises that do not realize these shifts risk losing out on innovation and profitability, with some even possibly staring at the end of the road their businesses, warns research firm Gartner. 
Tablet wars heating up this Fall
As Western countries prepare to end their summer season, tech companies are gearing up in the battle of the ever-increasing lucrative tablet market come Fall.
As Apple takes center stage, iPhone 5 is evolutionary, not revolutionary
While Apple’s latest iteration of its smartphone – the iPhone 5 – met the general expectations of gadget pundits and market talk, analysts were divided as to whether Apple can win the long smartphone game in this increasingly fickle consumer-driven world.  
Asia experiencing the impact of IT globalization: Gartner
The top business and technology priorities for chief information officers (CIOs) in Asia have for the first time become exactly aligned with those suggested by their counterparts in the worldwide region, according to data from the latest Gartner CIO Survey for 2012.
Jaring’s cloud-ready infrastructure, its best asset
Puncak Semangat’s initial interest in Jaring could very well be because of its data center infrastructure, which the Internet service provider has spent a fair amount of time and resources on building in the past two years, according to an industry observer.
Broadband nirvana: The last mile's the hardest
TIME dotCom launched its latest 100Mbps fiber broadband offering at RM179 per month. Edwin Yapp wonders why every other broadband player can't have an option to offer such speeds and questions what the impedients are for not being able to do so. 
‘We will not be arrogant, but innovative like Apple’
The incoming CEO of software giant VMware has wowed not to allow his company to become “arrogant” in the industry during his tenure in charge of the virtualization and cloud player.
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