Archive for the ‘Figures’ Category
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Veeam has reported 67% (Q3 2012) year-on-year growth in APAC and has 50,000 customers around the world.
Veeam Software is a provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V.
“What makes Veeam so successful is that it’s been built from the ground up specifically for virtualised environments, and hence is designed with the ability to innovate at an extremely fast rate while meeting the most stringent data recovery and protection objectives,” said Don Williams, Regional Director APAC, Veeam Software.
The company has capitalised on market opportunities for virtualisation, disaster recovery and cloud technologies in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
This is consistent with the findings of the VMware Cloud Index 2012 which underscored the importance and growth of cloud computing in the region.
Strong demand in APAC has resulted in a year-on-year revenue growth of 48% in Q3 2012 from new licenses.
Veeam’s cloud services business has seen a particularly strong uptake this year, having grown 58% in the last quarter alone. Veeam’s customer base has increased by 28% in the region this year.
Veeam’s presence in Pan Singapore has seen a 110% YoY increase in revenue growth and 86% YoY growth in new licenses revenue in the third quarter.
Simple and speedy data restoration in times of recovery.
Veeam has recently opened new offices in Singapore and plans to expand further across the region in 2013, having already doubled the headcount in the Singapore team.
Veeam at VMware’s vForum
Raymond Goh, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam in Singapore.
I had a chat with Raymond Goh, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam in Singapore, during VMware’s vForum in Singapore.
Raymond gave me a rundown of Veeam’s solutions for data protection and comprehensive systems management for virtualisation.
Two aspects of Veeam’s offerings impressed me during our conversation.
The scalability and flexibility of its solutions means that it can cater to both large enterprises and organisations, as well as smaller SMBs.
The ability of Veeam’s solutions to work simultaneously with both VMware and Hyper-V solutions translate to cost savings for customers who operate both in a mixed virtual environment, since Veeam does not charge separately for catering to two environments.
Solutions from Veeam Software
Veeam Backup & Replication is Veeam’s solution for VMBackup, while Veeam ONE is a single solution for real-time monitoring, resource optimisation and management reporting for VMware and Hyper-V.
The Veeam Management Pack (MP) and Smart Plug-in (SPI) extend enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager.
Tags:APAC, Hyper-V, Singapore, Veeam, vForum, virtualisation, virtualization, VMware
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
The 3rd annual study by VMware shows cloud computing entering a new stage of evolution in the region as it highlights the growth and importance of cloud as a business enabler.
Infographic showing the findings for APJ from the VMware Cloud Index 2012. Click to enlarge.
The results of the study was presented at the annual vForums in Asia. Here are several key trends revealed by the VMware Cloud Index.
Key trends for APJ
- Despite global economic concerns, nearly 80% of respondents in Asia Pacific indicates that their companies’ business outlooks for 2012 and 2013 include some growth and/or expansion.
VMware Cloud Index 2012 findings for Singapore. Click to enlarge.
- Cloud computing is seen by respondents as enabling the business to optimise IT (85%), reduce costs (80%), and supporting a more mobile and flexible workforce (81%).
- The CIO is increasingly empowered, with 44% of them cited as a final cloud decision maker. CEOs remain the top decision maker at 52%, but this is down 6% compared to 2011.
- 71% of respondents state that cloud computing has made their jobs less complex.
- Top barriers to cloud adoption are data privacy, residency, or “loss of control” (69%); security (64%); and cost (62%).
Businesses in APJ (Japan and Asia Pacific region) are forecasting business growth and see cloud computing as an integral part of their strategy.
“There is a transformation taking place in the industry and the datacenter has become a more automated place,” observed Andrew Dutton, senior vice president and general manager, VMware Asia Pacific and Japan.
There is an increased readiness for cloud and indication that it can provide competitive advantage, with 67% of APJ organisations believing that they currently have the skills and infrastructure necessary to manage a private cloud.
68% stated that without pursuing cloud initiatives, they could fall behind the competition.
With 83% of organisations stating that cloud can empower their businesses by simplifying access to IT resources, companies are looking to leverage cloud computing as a business enabler.
“VMware’s software defined approach to the datacenter not only helps organisations address concerns about integration, hybrid management and security, but also allows business leaders to leverage cloud computing in a way that aligns to their business needs,” Dutton added.
On the other hand, IT today is struggling to impose governance, control, access and self-service over heterogeneous cloud services.
VMware is working to solve this challenge – with the introduction of the software defined datacenter as the tenet to cloud computing.
IT has also evolved from its traditional role as a builder of services to become a broker of services and infrastructure capacity.
In the era of the enterprise hybrid cloud, there are new and increased responsibilities for IT, and CIOs will need to be at the helm to bridge the gap between business and IT and manage this transformation.
About the VMware Cloud Index
The 3rd VMware Cloud Index in 2012 is the largest regional cloud-related study in Asia Pacific.
VMware
Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, VMware is a global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud era.
With 2011 revenues of US$3.77b, VMware has more than 400,000 customers and 55,000 partners.
Forrester Consulting and ITR (for Japan only) were commissioned to conduct the annual research in September and October 2012.
Approximately 6,500 senior IT practitioners across the APJ (in eleven countries/regions: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand) were surveyed this year.
Check out the infographics for your region here.
Tags:Asia Pacific, cloud, data center, data centre, Japan, research, Singapore, study, survey, trends, vForum, virtualisation, virtualization, VMware
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
Polycom gains significant market share in the global video collaboration market in both Q1 and Q2 to gain an additional 8 percent of the total market in 1H 2012, controlling roughly one-third of the market.
Polycom has taken an additional 8% of the global video collaboration market over the past half a year to control roughly one-third of the market.
Polycom has announced significant, sequential quarter-over-quarter market share gains in the video collaboration industry for the first half of 2012, at the cost of some of its biggest competitors.
Multiple independent analyst firms report that more customers continue to choose Polycom over the competition for best ease of use, most interoperability and lowest total cost of ownership.
According to new quarterly market share research reports from IDC, Synergy Research Group and Wainhouse Research, Polycom gained between 4.4 and 5.7 percentage points in revenue market share quarter-over-quarter in Q2 2012.
Based on reports from all three firms, Polycom’s Q2 gains build on the company’s market share gains of up to 2.2 percent in the first quarter of the year.
On the whole, Polycom now holds more than 32 percent global market share at the end of the second quarter of 2012, and gained nearly 8 percent global video collaboration market share in the first half of 2012, reports Wainhouse Research.
Tags:collaboration, IDC, Polycom, Synergy Research Group, video, Wainhouse Research
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Sunday, September 9th, 2012
Did you know Red Hat started out in a spare bedroom in Tim Burke’s (current Vice President, Linux Engineering, Red Hat) house?
Here’s a tech byte about the software company that provides open source software to the enterprise community.
Red Hat started out from a spare bedroom. Click to see full infographic which includes Red Hat and Open Source software.
Red Hat Linux first appeared in 1994, with an October release called Halloween. It also started the Fedora Project in 2003.
This infographic is extracted from a larger version prepared by Red Hat. You may check the complete graphic that includes Linux and Open Source software
here.
Red Hat believes in community-led innovation. That’s why Red Hat is the leading corporate contributor to the kernel, with 70,790 changes, making up 16.3% of contributions to the GNOME project.
The Top 5 Asia Pacific stock exchanges are powered by Red Hat.
Tags:Fedora, info graphics, Linux, Open source, Operating System, OS, Red Hat
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Saturday, September 8th, 2012
Do you know that Linux has turned 21 years old on 25 August 2012? Here’s a tech byte about the open source operating system.
Linux is now twenty-one years old. Click to see full infographic which includes Red Hat and Open Source.
The initial announcement from Linus Torvalds was posted on 25 August 1991.
This infographic is extracted from a larger version prepared by
Red Hat. You may check the complete graphic
here.
The kernel which forms the core of the Linux system is the result of one of the largest co-operative software projects ever attempted.
Almost 8,000 individual developers contributed to each kernel release between ver. 2.6.11 to 3.2, and the numbers continue to increase.
Tags:info graphics, Linux, Open source, Operating System, OS, Red Hat
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Cost per victim goes up this year, with cybercriminals starting to focus their efforts on social networks and mobile devices.
2012 Norton Cybercrime Report, an annual study to understand how cybercrime affects consumers, and how the adoption and evolution of new technologies impacts people’s security. Click to read detailed report.
The annual Norton Cybercrime Report is one of the world’s largest consumer cybercrime studies, involving 13,000 adults from 24 countries.
“Personal email accounts often contain the keys to your online kingdom. Not only can criminals gain access to everything in your inbox, they can also reset your passwords for any other online site you may use by clicking the ‘forgot your password’ link, intercepting those emails and effectively locking you out of your own accounts,” says Effendy Ibrahim, Internet Safety Advocate & Director, Asia, Norton by Symantec.
The 2012 edition of the study tags the direct costs of global consumer cybercrime at US$110 billion over the past 12 months.
In Singapore, more than 1.4 million people fell victim to cybercrime in the same period, suffering approximately S$1.2 billion in direct financial losses.
This works out to an average of S$812 per victim in Singapore.
The equivalent global average direct cost per victim is only S$244.
Globally, every second, 18 adults become a victim of cybercrime, resulting in more than one-and-a-half million cybercrime victims each day.
Social networks and mobile devices
In Singapore, one in five online adults (20 percent) has been a victim of either social or mobile cybercrime, and 36 percent of social network users have been victims of social cybercrime.
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Tags:mobile devices, Norton, Norton Cybercrime Report, security, Singapore, social networks, Symantec
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
The Singapore White Spaces Pilot Group (SWSPG) added six new members today, and launched three commercial pilot deployments of TV White Spaces (TVWS) smart radio technology.
The three founding members of the SWSPG added six new members today.
The three founding members (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Microsoft Singapore and StarHub) of the SWSPG introduced the following six members today.
- Neul Ltd, a Cambridge, UK-based TVWS Solutions and Services Company.
- Adaptrum, a Silicon Valley, US-based TVWS technology and solutions provider; whose TVWS System ACRS 1.0 was certified by the FCC and commercially deployed in the US.
- Power Automation Pte Ltd (a joint venture between Singapore Power and Siemens) which is a provider of smart grid solutions.
- Singapore Island Country Club, a golf and country club in Singapore.
- Spectrum Bridge Inc, a developer of spectrum management systems and a provider of spectrum sharing solutions, whose TVWS platform was the first to obtain FCC certification in the US.
- ZDW Systems Pte Ltd, an equipment manufacturer and solutions provider for wireless communications coverage enhancement networks.
The group also announced the first series of commercial pilot deployments of TVWS smart radio technology in Singapore.
“The Singapore TVWS pilots are very timely with the on-going digital TV transition and rising trends of the Internet of Things and Smart City regionally,” said Michael Thatcher, Chief Technology Officer, Public Sector, Microsoft Asia Pacific.
This will hopefully introduce a new class of wireless connectivity to Singapore, putting the island nation at the forefront of a new wave of wireless services innovation and Smart City applications.
With the support of IDA, these first three commercial pilot projects will attempt to demonstrate the characteristics and benefits of TVWS solutions in different environments and with different usage applications.
The first demo will penetrate the dense vegetation and challenging terrain of the SICC to enable wireless connectivity.
“IDA welcomes industry-led efforts such as the TVWS commercial pilots by the SWSPG. We will continue to support and provide regulatory guidance to industry initiatives looking at new and innovative ways to deploy TVWS,” said Aileen Chia, Deputy Diretor-General (Telecoms & Post), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.
The second demo will provide long-range wireless Internet coverage across the waters at the Singapore harbour.
The third demo will support smart grid applications that will impact the million households in Singapore.
These commercial pilots are conducted under a test licence from IDA and utilise a TVWS Geo-location Database developed by Microsoft, with the advice and inputs from IDA.
Tags:Adaptrum, broadband, demo, I2R, Microsoft, mobile, Neul, Power Automation, SICC, Singapore, Singapore Island Country Club, Spectrum Bridge, StarHub, SWSPG, TV White Spaces, TVWS, Wi-Fi, wireless, ZDW Systems
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012
Progress Software is collaborating with SingTel to launch cloud-based infrastructure for ISVs to build, test, manage and deploy cloud-based applications.
MoU signing. Keith Budge, Vice President and Managing Director (Asia Pacific & Japan), Progress Software (Left) with Alvin Kok, Head of Infocomm Services, SingTel (right).
From the brief that Budge and Kok gave me, I can see how the collaboration will enable ISVs to mature from providing on-premise one-to-one solutions; to cloud-enabled, single-source, multi-tenanted, pay-per-use solutions.
Essentially, SingTel will provide the foundation with its PowerON IaaS, Progress Software will provide the enabler in the form of OpenEdge PaaS, so that ISVs can quickly and cost-effectively deploy cloud-based applications for their clients’ businesses.
Progress Software Corporation is a global software company that aims to be a leading platform provider for the next-generation, context-aware applications in the Cloud.
“… this [collaboration with SingTel] bolsters our strategy to provide new and existing application partners a singular, unified platform to build and deploy applications in the cloud,” said Keith Budge, Vice President and Managing Director for Asia Pacific and Japan, Progress Software.
Its collaboration with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) will enable software developers from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to deploy, access and analyze applications in the Cloud using the Progress OpenEdge application development platform.
The Asia Pacific Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market is attracting considerable interest from businesses due to the flexibility it brings to application development and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Frost & Sullivan projects that the market will grow to reach $523 million in 2016.
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Tags:cloud, enterprise IT, IaaS, ISV, OpenEdge, PaaS, Progress Software, SaaS, SingTel
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Saturday, August 11th, 2012
Utilising unused TV frequencies to provide wireless broadband connectivity increases the range and and penetration of coverage through foliage and reflective water surfaces that traditional Wi-Fi simply cannot penetrate.
Squeezing more more channels from the electromagnetic spectrum.
Currently, the radio spectrum in the TV broadcast bands have been reserved for use by licensed broadcasters and are out-of-bounds for wireless broadband networks.
“Broadband connectivity is the ‘oxygen’ to today’s digital economy, and is fundamental to the wide adoption of cloud computing services that are already part of our daily lives, whether at work, home or play,” observed Jessica Tan, General Manager, Enterprise & Partner Group, Microsoft Asia Pacific.
However, much of these reserved radio spectrum remain unused and are called TV White Spaces (TVWS).
For instance, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia shares out the TV broadcast bands in the region and there are certain bands allocated to Malaysia and Indonesia that Singapore cannot use for TV broadcast.
If these TV White Spaces can be harnessed effectively for wireless broadband connectivity without interfering with the quality of TV broadcast, it will translate to better coverage, lower power consumption and reduced network costs.
“TVWS radio technology will create a new generation of wireless connectivity by unlocking these large, unused chunks of spectrum that will enable more ubiquitous and affordable wireless broadband for all,” said Tan.
The physical characteristics of the 700 MHz band (as compared to the higher-frequency 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands used by traditional Wi-Fi), for example, means that it can reach further, penetrate thick foliage, and transmit across reflective water surfaces with less interference.
In terms of bandwidth, however, both TVWS and Wi-Fi are capable of roughly 2Mbps per MHz. It is the penetrative and low-power attributes of the former that makes it an attractive supplement to the latter.
The spectrum as a precious commodity
Globally, explosive growth of wireless data traffic is putting a severe strain on today’s mobile and Wi-Fi network infrastructure, signalling the need for more efficient management of the spectrum, through policy and technology innovations.
The exploitation of TVWS turns unused TV broadcast frequency bands into premium wireless broadband delivery channels.
Tags:broadband, communications, Microsoft, mobile, radio, spectrum, StarHub, TV White Spaces, White Spaces, Wi-Fi, wireless
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
SingTel is one of Asia’s leading communications group with operations and investments around the world, serving both the corporate and consumer markets.
I have created a new company byte for SingTel here.
SingTel – Singapore Telecommunications Limited
Read a byte-sized profile and background information about SingTel for quick reference here.
You can also read articles related to SingTel on tech4tea.com here.
Tags:company byte, Singapore, Singapore Telecommunications, SingTel, telco
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