Articles by Damian Crotty
Cloud Services for SMB in Asia
Q: Types of cloud services that Asia's SMBs find acceptable? SMBs' cloud adoption patterns vary greatly in terms of types of applications and services reflecting their varying levels of comfort with the new paradigm and while a majority of SMBs are using cloud services in conjunction with their existing applications and services, a small but growing number are using them to replace their on-premise infrastructure. This is especially true for cloud services like CRM, hosted email, hosted SharePoint and others. The extent of Cloud Services for SMB from local providers in Asia today remains largely limited in our experience, with many of the service providers not possessing a definitive strategy for their Cloud offerings let alone an SMB focused Services portfolio's aimed at addressing the unique needs of this market segment. For example, SMB's in Asia are challenged by internet reliability and bandwidth, and concerned with taking of advantage of the transformative, ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Thu 10 Mar 2011
Cloud Services for SMB in Asia
Q: Types of cloud services that Asia's SMBs find acceptable? SMBs' cloud adoption patterns vary greatly in terms of types of applications and services reflecting their varying levels of comfort with the new paradigm and while a majority of SMBs are using cloud services in conjunction with their existing applications and services, a small but growing number are using them to replace their on-premise infrastructure. This is especially true for cloud services like CRM, hosted email, hosted SharePoint and others. The extent of Cloud Services for SMB from local providers in Asia today remains largely limited in our experience, with many of the service providers not possessing a definitive strategy for their Cloud offerings let alone an SMB focused Services portfolio's aimed at addressing the unique needs of this market segment. For example, SMB's in Asia are challenged by internet reliability and bandwidth, and concerned with taking of advantage of the transformative, ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Thu 10 Mar 2011
Virtualization landscape in Asia
In the foregoing interview, Mr. Damian Crotty President and General Manager at ViFX, shares his views on the virtualization landscape in Asia and also on the cloud adoption trends. This is his take on the following questions: 1. How would you describe the relationship between Virtualization' and Cloud? Virtualization has transitioned into a mainstream technology in today's datacenters and is widely used to increase hardware utilization as well as lower infrastructure and application operational management costs. For many of our clients, a virtualized infrastructure is seen as a direct entry point into cloud computing, so in effect, virtualization is the foundation of cloud computing. Virtualization abstracts computing away from system resources and enables the effortless transfer from one physical resource to another and the uncomplicated addition and subtraction of resources from an application. Cloud computing overlays virtualization with a set of services spanning ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Tue 01 Feb 2011
Cloud computing in Asia
A VMware-sponsored survey of seven thousand businesses and IT executives in Asia Pacific shows Cloud computing mindshare and adoption have soared over the last eighteen months. Vmware has announced recent findings from its survey which shows that the proportion of Asia Pacific enterprises viewing cloud computing as relevant to their businesses doubled to 83% over the last eighteen months. According to the survey, 76% in India want to virtualize and adopt cloud computing in the coming eighteen months, which is the highest percentage as compared to other Cloud positive countries in the region like Japan and Australia. India scored higher than both Singapore and Malaysia in current Cloud understanding levels. The September survey of 6,953 respondents, conducted by Springboard Research, sponsored by VMware also indicated that Cloud adoption has accelerated across seven Asia Pacific markets over the last eighteen months, particularly among larger firms. At present, 59% of regional firms ...
Posted by Damian Crotty on Tue 01 Feb 2011
Who needs the cloud?
Is cloud computing for everyone? Marketing hype is creating perception that it is. But cloud expert at VIFX say otherwise. Damian Crotty, president and managing partner at VIFX, advices companies to understand well their business needs and how IT supports these. He notes that cloud computing is not for everyone, at least in the short-term.
Posted by Damian Crotty on Fri 28 Jan 2011