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IT costs accounting

Wai-Kit — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:45:07 +0000

So often, I have heard skeptics who would criticize and cynically discard away the concept of measuring, accounting, and charging for IT services within an organization. “Why would you want…

Verizon Business launching new APAC data centre

Wai-Kit — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:02:29 +0000

Verizon Business will launch an Asia-Pacific data centre for its computing as a service (CaaS) customers in the region and to address issues of latency, security and compliance.

Ray McQuillan,…

Telcos turning into Cloud Service Providers

Wai-Kit — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:46:01 +0000

Over the past years, Telecom carriers and service providers have suffered economic pressures, competition, churn and declining revenue. As they grapple to find ways to improve their ARPU from their…

IT Shared Services & Modeling Chargebacks

Wai-Kit — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:00:22 +0000

In most organization, the IT function is almost always a key enabler for an effective and efficient running of the business. With the recent credit crunch and economic downturn, many…

RESTful APIs for Cloud

Wai-Kit — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:52:48 +0000

Over the past month, I have put together some thoughts around the components that should make up the composition of a Cloud Computing service, from a service producer’s perspective, in…

Governance beyond Uncertainty

Wai-Kit — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:18:35 +0000

I had the privilege to join Sun’s Chief Privacy Officer, who is also our Chief Governance Officer for Cloud Computing, in meetings with some government InfoComm authority folks. The subject…

An Elephant called Hadoop

Wai-Kit — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:36:53 +0000

One of the technology that is often being evaluated for HPC (High Performance Computing) or Cloud infrastructure is named after a stuffed elephant toy called Hadoop.

survey of 502 respondents (C-level…