Good news IBM open cloud-computing lab in Singapore.

[Ash007]

You guys don't KpKb so much, IBM opening cloud-computing lab in Singapore. Whether they hire locals of FTs is another matter.

http://www.infogrok.com/index.php/technology/ibm-opens-cloud-computing-laboratory-in-singapore.html

IBM Opens Cloud Computing Laboratory In Singapore

By Staff Writer
Wednesday, 05 May 2010 09:58
IBM is opening a cloud computing laboratory in Singapore to help businesses, government and research institutions and institutes of higher learning to design, adopt and reap benefits of cloud technologies.
The new lab housed at Changi business park is part of it's expansion of its cloud computing capabilities, and puts Singapore and the ASEAN region on the map as the eleventh cloud computing lab. This new addition will be part of the network of labs in Hong Kong, Ireland, Vietnam, China, South Africa, Japan, Brazil, India, Korea and the US.
Through briefings, technology deployment and development sessions, the Singapore lab will work closely with businesses, government and research institutions and institutes of higher learning to design and deploy their own cloud environments.
The lab will help these clients deploy first-of-a-kind solutions that increase business responsiveness, lower IT operating and capital costs, enable real-time data streams and information sharing, and provide globally available resources.
Specifically, the adoption of private, public or hybrid cloud environments can help organizations reduce IT management complexity and skill requirements; share resources among multiple applications; accelerate time to market; and support both existing and emerging, data-intensive workloads.
Teresa Lim, managing director of IBM Singapore, said: “Cloud computing is being acknowledged as a new computing model which can drive business transformation in a cost-effective manner. Due to the strong presence of many global enterprises in Singapore and the Global Information Technology Report, we see the republic in a strong position to become the global Asia hub for cloud computing.”
Will the new lab help businesses design and adopt cloud technologies for growth?
Have your say and discuss with your peers on the InfoGrok community.

 

[Char_Azn]

The idea here is to lower hardware and software cost, however the bandwidth cost will go up and that's assuming you can even get that kind of bandwidth in many parts of most countries to begin with. It's useful for a company with a huge office with lotsa pple inside, not that good when U have small offices all around the place

The problem with this Cloud computing idea is that it isn't going to work in most of Asia simply becoz of infrastructural problems. The only countries I can think of in Asia that this is going to work is Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and SG. Even Taiwan doesn't have that kind of nation wide infrastructure to support this all across the country. China can only use it in 2-3 major cities, Shanghai and Beijing comes to mind, same goes for India and Australia.

I guess most of the pple who invented this havent had to deal with their cables getting cut and stolen in some remote office in Malaysia or bandwidth so slow in Thailand that when I remotely access my servers there, the screensaver comes on again by the time the screen refreshes

 

[zuoom]

idea. with the fibre network currently in the works all over the island. it would be put to good use.

 

[fishbuff]

You guys don't KpKb so much, IBM opening cloud-computing lab in Singapore. Whether they hire locals of FTs is another matter.

http://www.infogrok.com/index.php/technology/ibm-opens-cloud-computing-laboratory-in-singapore.html

...and run what os? windows? eeeee....
even if u put in a zillion cpu, windows is still slow.

 

[makapaaa]

You guys don't KpKb so much, IBM opening cloud-computing lab in Singapore. Whether they hire locals of FTs is another matter.

http://www.infogrok.com/index.php/technology/ibm-opens-cloud-computing-laboratory-in-singapore.html

Does it matter if it's funded in large by Sporns' blood and coffin money via EDBee while job opportunities go to FTrash?

 

[Rogue Trader]

one consideration for cloud computing is who owns the data? i have stopped using alot of net-apps because the data ownership clause is fucked up. eg, facebook owns all the photos you post on it. how fucked up is that?