Hong Kong commits to the Cloud
The Hong Kong government has announced a commitment to cloud computing to re-provision its central IT infrastructure and services over the next five years.
Stories by Ross O. Storey
Asia Pacific IT salaries increasing
Information technology salaries are on the rise across the Asia Pacific, with the upward trend expected to continue through 2011, according to the latest Technology salary survey by recruitment specialists Robert Half International.
Employees ignore IT security: survey
New global research has found that most IT security administrators believe social networking, Internet applications and widgets have significantly lowered the security posture of their organisation.
Cloud computing risks manageable: survey
Ninety per cent of Information Security Forum (ISF) members believe cloud computing changes their information security risk landscape, but they maintain they are well-placed to address these security issues.
Social networking choking business bandwidth: Blue Coat
Application identification and control continue to be the 'Achilles heel' for major organisations, according to application delivery network specialist Blue Coat systems.
Asian mobile media industry booming
Southeast Asia accounts for nearly a third of the global revenue generated by the mobile entertainment industry which is worth some US$32 billion, despite the economic downturn.
Asia Pacific to increase software spending in 2010: Gartner
Planned 2010 spending on software by Asia Pacific enterprises is expected to increase by 4.4 per cent--the highest of all global regions, according to new research by Gartner.
'Smart wi-fi' market booming in Asia Pacific
It is headquartered in Silicon Valley, but manufactures its smart wi-fi technology systems in Malaysia and currently earns 80 per cent of its revenue from the Asia Pacific.
Asia Pacific provides 64 percent of 3Com's global earnings
The Asia Pacific continues to be the best performing region for global converged network infrastructure supplier 3Com Corporation, according to its latest results released today.
Minimal Asia Pacific impact from 5,000 job cuts: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation says only a very small number of its employees across the Asia Pacific, will be affected by this week's decision to cut 5,000 jobs from the IT giant's global staff.
IT security hindering innovation: IDC
Organizations are struggling to strike the right balance between driving new innovations to market and instituting effective IT security practices, according to new research by IDC.
Instant messaging to overtake business e-mail
Instant messaging (IM) is set to overtake e-mail as the preferred form of business communication by the second half of 2010, according to research by IDC.
IDC: Instant messaging to overtake business e-mail
Instant messaging (IM) is set to overtake e-mail as the preferred form of business communication by the second half of 2010, according to research by IDC.
