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Friday, November 9th, 2012
The 3rd annual VMware Cloud Index shows 84% of respondents have adopted or are planning to adopt cloud solutions.
Infographic showing the findings for Singapore from the VMware Cloud Index 2012. Click to enlarge.
The 84% cloud adoption rate shows an increasing trend from 63% in 2011 and 53% in 2010. The findings were released in conjunction with the annual vForum in Singapore.
“Organisations in Singapore are increasingly recognizing the strategic role that cloud computing can play in enabling them to be more productive, stay competitive, and enter new markets,” said Nicholas Tan, country manager, VMware Singapore.
Of the respondents who have not implemented a cloud initiative but were planning to, 55% plan to implement within the next 18 months.
73% of respondents in Singapore said their business outlook for 2012 and 2013 would include growth and expansion, or consolidation with some growth, signaling more potential opportunities to increase cloud adoption.
77% described cloud computing as a top priority or highly relevant to their organization, and 88% agree that cloud will empower their business by simplifying access to IT resources.
69% agree that their organization needs to pursue cloud initiatives or risk falling behind competitors.
“By leveraging VMware solutions on a subscription basis from our telco and service provider partners such as Fujitsu Asia and SingTel, customers can have their data reside in Singapore, and only pay for the services that they consume,” said Kevin Pratesa, director, Service Providers and Public Cloud, VMware ASEAN.
When rating the top reasons for implementing cloud computing in Singapore, respondents strongly rated the need to empower the business by simplifying access to IT resources (80%); supporting a more mobile and flexible workforce (77%); and ensuring that they only pay for the IT they actually use (77%) as factors driving cloud adoption.
The VMware Cloud Index 2012 revealed that the barriers to cloud adoption in Singapore continue to persist and include data privacy, residency, or “loss of control” (72%); cost (69%); and availability or performance concerns (67%).
Despite growing cloud adoption, only one in two respondents (50%) in Singapore agree that their organization is investing in training for cloud-related skills, and 32% say their company is actively seeking to hire new IT staff with cloud computing expertise.
Tags:Asia Pacific, cloud, data center, data centre, Japan, research, study, survey, trends, 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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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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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
CIO Asia magazine organised the half-day event at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Due to the overwhelming response, the invitation-only briefing was extended from a 10-pax roundtable to a five-table seminar.
IBM X-Force Executive Briefing on Evolving Threat.
IBM promised that attendees would leave the briefing better prepared to protect their organisations against evolving threats in the security landscape.
Key personnel from the new Security Systems unit in IBM updated CIOs and key IT managers on the numerous reports of data leaks, Denial-of-Service attacks, and social Hacktivisim in 2011.
The pace of such attack have continued into 2012.
Traditionally, IBM as well as other large companies have already incorporated security considerations in individual solution domains.
However, IBM has taken the additional step to adopt a holistic approach towards ensuring security for all of their solutions.
Its acquisition of Q1 Labs has provided the tools that integrated the security needs and considerations across the hitherto siloed domains.
This security layer straddles the various siloed domains and serves as the bedrock upon which the domain solutions are built.
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Tags:CIO Asia, cloud security, data leaks, Denial-of-Service, DOS, executive briefing, IBM X-Force, Q1 Labs, Raffles Hotel, risk management, security, seminar, Singapore, social Hactivism
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, recently released key findings from the RSA Archer GRC Executive Forum held in June, during which governance, risk and compliance (GRC) leaders from 34 leading corporations discussed enterprise risk management strategies and best practices.
Key Findings of the RSA Archer GRC Executive Forum
Top executives say GRC Programs must better align to strategic priorities to meet board needs. The results affirm the earlier Carnegie Mellon CyLab 2012 Governance Report.
Some key findings
- Mounting and multiplied business risks due to growing regulatory requirements and greater business complexity.
- The need to align GRC to business priorities to get organizational leaders on board.
- Moving away from a siloed GRC program to one which is unified to make enterprise-wide risk assessment.
It was noted that the shift towards increased regulatory and compliance requirements is being observed across Asia Pacific and Japan as well, with organizations looking to better calibrate their risk assessment frameworks and set guidelines for assessing organisation risks.
The need for business continuity management programs is also gaining traction, with the occurrence of natural disasters in Japan and Thailand prompting organizations to reassess their risk environment.
Read the press release below for more details.
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Tags:best practices, EMC, enterprise IT, risk management strategies, RSA, RSA Archer GRC Executive Forum, security
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Personal branding expert William Arruda advocates that by spending just 9 minutes a day, you’ll be able to maintain a healthy and successful career. Here are 9 activities you can do during those 9 minutes.
William Arruda, personal branding expert
Arruda suggests the following activities that professionals can do 9 minutes a day in order to maintain a healthy and successful career.
- Build your network – building and maintaining relationships are a major component of a successful career.
- Maintain relationships by recommending and congratulating others in their careers – everyone enjoys being recognised and LinkedIn provides an easy way to do this.
- Request recommendations from your network as credibility is critical.
- Document achievements and wins on your LinkedIn profile to stay current and relevant.
- Update your status every day and make sure your profile and photo is current.
- Expand on your thought leadership – lead a forum or LinkedIn group; publish an article; start a blog; speak publicly or recommend books on the Amazon LinkedIn app.
- Use the power of video and create a video bio of yourself for your LinkedIn profile.
- Source staff – one of a manager’s hardest jobs. If you build your brand community, you’ll create fans who want to work for you.
- Research – Make an effort to get to know more about your clients or partners and competitors. LinkedIn is a great place to start.
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
LinkedIn research reveals the majority of the Singaporean workforce over-estimate the time required per day to further their career.
Expert reveals that 9 minutes a day is all it takes to maintain a healthy, successful career.
Infographic of LinkedIn research conducted by IPSOS Mori and Catalyst
Over 81% of Singaporean professionals believe that the ideal amount of time spent daily on progressing your career should be in excess of 30 minutes, according to the research.
“Fitting 9 minutes of career management into your daily schedule is all it takes without adding stress or pressure,” says Arruda, who partnered with LinkedIn to identify the optimum amount of time to spend daily on what he has termed ‘continuous career management’.The research was undertaken by IPSOS Mori and Catalyst and involved 3,200 working professionals worldwide, including 400 in Singapore.
World leading personal branding expert William Arruda instead presents a far more appealing and realistic time commitment.
He advocates that by spending just 9 minutes a day you’ll be able to maintain a healthy and successful career. Here are 9 activities that he suggests you can do during those 9 minutes.
“9 minutes is the optimum amount of time recommended, because it also gives you complete focus, and educators to psychologists agree that the ability to focus one’s attention on a task is crucial for the achievement of one’s goals,” Arruda elaborated.The public perception of 3.5+hrs per week is a stark contrast to Arruda’s recommendation of 45 minutes per week.
Other results reveal that – given an hour – 95% believe it’s more useful to spend time keeping in with the boss (making them tea) than spending time building their network or finessing their CV.
Here are some other results from the research:
- Given an hour – 95% believe it’s more useful to spend time keeping in with the boss (making them tea) than spending time building their network or finessing their CV.
- Men perceived as better networkers than women. 42% of the population think that men are better than women at networking, versus only 9% believing women were better.
- Nine in 10 professionals agree that having a professional network of connections is crucial during economic uncertainty.
IPSOS MORI is part of the IPSOS Group, a leading market research company in the UK and Ireland.
Professionals deemed to be the most effective networkers:
| 46% |
Marketing |
| 17% |
Sales |
| 15% |
Bankers & Stockbrokers |
| 1-2% |
Nurse, Teachers, Legal and Retail
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In Singapore and Australia, the research was conducted by Australian research firm Catalyst Consultancy & Research.
The research asked 3,200 working professionals globally about their daily work habits, with markets being the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Singapore and Australia.
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
81% of businesses in the Asia Pacific and Japan might NOT be able to recover lost data and systems in the event of a disaster. New independent research sponsored by EMC points to outdated backup and recovery infrastructure.
The survey also found that 71% of all organizations had lost data or suffered systems downtime in the last 12 months.
Vanson Bourne interviewed 2,500 IT decision-makers in private and public sector organizations in Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Each organization ranged between 250 and 3000-plus employees and represented a variety of industries including manufacturing, retail, financial services and telecoms, among others.
These findings highlight the need for backup transformation from antiquated technologies that are not suited for today’s data growth or availability expectations.
A move to next-generation backup and recovery solutions ensure continued business operations in the event of a natural disaster, malicious activity or more routine and common disruptions to IT systems.
In fact, the research showed that the causes of systems downtime are often the commonplace disruptions to IT, such as hardware failure or data corruption, rather than natural disasters or other major incidents.
Other key findings are summarised below:
- Hardware failure (60%), data corruption (49%) and loss of power (44%) were cited as the primary causes of data loss and downtime.
- 42% of organizations cite loss of employee productivity as the most likely consequence of data loss and downtime.
- 44% of organizations who store a backup copy offsite for disaster recovery still use tape for recovery, and 37% still use CD ROM (although 62% now use disk-based storage).
- 83% of these organizations want to replace tape all together, highlighting the need for next generation backup and recovery.
Commissioned by EMC and conducted by independent research company Vanson Bourne, ‘The Disaster Recovery Survey 2012: Asia Pacific and Japan’ looks at the state of backup and disaster recovery in the region to understand how well companies are prepared for data loss and systems downtime.
For the full report, visit EMC’s website here.
Tags:Asia Pacific, Australia, China, data, Disaster Recovery, EMC, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, loss, Malaysia, research, Singapore, study, survey, Thailand, The Philippines
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
An independent research conducted by Experian finds that Singapore consumers are suffering from information overload and no longer respond to blanket marketing.
44% of respondents from Singapore interact with only three or fewer brands.
An independent research conducted by Experian in Singapore.
This is the result of poorly targeted communications from multi-channel marketer.
What’s the number one FRUSTRATION?
“The inability to unsubscribe from unwanted communication (email, newsletters, direct mail, SMS alerts, social media messages),” says 28% of consumers in Singapore.
18% of respondents think “receiving content that isn’t relevant or helpful” is their biggest annoyance.
17% of consumers are most frustrated with “online content that is badly formatted / difficult to read / not optimised for mobile devices”.
In addition, 30% of participants said they now IGNORE the emails, direct mail and social media messages they receive from brands because of information overload.
78% of consumers cited that they are very SELECTIVE about what opt-ins, newsletters or updates they sign up for to ensure they are only receiving messages that are relevant to their particular interests.
SG consumers agree that a COMPANY’S WEBSITE is the most valuable source of information they use to look for information about a brand, with 91% stating that it is a relevant or very relevant source.
While 36% of consumers believe the ideal frequency of brand communications is once a month, a quarter of consumers (25%) did not have frequency preferences as long as the communication is RELEVANT.
The survey was conducted locally involving 302 Singapore marketing professionals across the retail, financial services, government, technology, online/digital and travel/leisure industries.
It also included a representative sample of 1,048 consumers across all demographics, in order to explore how effectively the general population responds to and engages with marketing efforts.
Giveaways and incentives (65%) is the number one way for brands to engage the SG consumer. Any surprises here?!
The research also shows a clear DISCONNECT between the communications consumers want from brands and the way they are being targeted by marketers.
For example, although MARKETERS listed print media as one of the least important tools for connecting with consumers – 86% of CONSUMER respondents rated it as the second most valued communication medium.
Tags:consumers, Experian, marketers, overload, research, study
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