| HP: Cloud computing to the enterprise in 2015 will be | | | | Workload Management, and Identity and Security |
| the basis for IT! | | | | solutions. Vodacom Business is a British company's |
| 92% of the IT industry executives predict, | | | | major shareholder of Vodafone Group. The |
| service-based computing model will become the | | | | partnership is designed to help businesses across |
| mainstream in the years | | | | Africa for the Vodacom commercial cloud |
| Beijing, May 24, 2010 - Hewlett-Packard has | | | | infrastructure companies to deploy multi-user shared |
| announced its 2010 Asian Technology Conference | | | | applications, for secure distribution, management and |
| Acer Aspire 1680 battery cloud (Cloud Asia 2010), on | | | | monitoring. |
| the spot for the participants of the survey results. | | | | Management cloud |
| The results showed that the representatives | | | | As enterprises shift to the cloud, the successful |
| attending the event in the industry agree that cloud | | | | management of all aspects of infrastructure, HP |
| computing will become the mainstream enterprise | | | | pavilion dv6000 battery technology becomes more |
| applications in Asia. 92% of respondents believe that | | | | urgent, including service quality, safety and availability. |
| companies in Asia within five years using cloud | | | | Customers need access to the physical and virtual |
| computing services. | | | | server environment, comprehensive information, to |
| Adoption | | | | get the real use of resources, especially in trying to |
| In the 100 delegates participating in the survey, more | | | | adjust the scale, rapid distribution of work load time. |
| than two-thirds (68%) of people on the cloud | | | | From complex server consolidation and capacity |
| technology very optimistic attitude, they are | | | | planning activities, remove speculation behavior, |
| expected within three years, Asian companies will be | | | | Vodacom Novell commercial companies are using the |
| widely used in cloud computing services. In addition, 2 | | | | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and virtualization and |
| / 3 (66%) of respondents said their companies are | | | | workload management solutions, including PlateSpin |
| planning to use cloud computing platform within three | | | | Recon, PlateSpin Migrate and PlateSpin Protect, to |
| years. | | | | respond to growing business requirements, improve |
| Benefit | | | | server workload performance, reduce power |
| 3 / 4 (75%) of respondents believe that this trend | | | | consumption and cost. |
| occurs because the cloud computing can be | | | | Protection cloud |
| extended continuously improve IT flexibility, while | | | | A major advantage of cloud computing is to provide |
| 68% of the respondents think that the main | | | | flexible on-demand model, when necessary, |
| advantage of cloud computing is the ability to reduce | | | | companies can quickly access additional computing |
| costs. In addition, more than half (54%) of | | | | power. But it also brought significant challenges to |
| respondents pointed out that the use of cloud | | | | security and auditing. Current regulations reflect the |
| computing, enterprises will not need to regularly | | | | identity and security in compliance when the detailed |
| upgrade the hardware, as well as 42% of people | | | | auditing records. Vodacom Business will use Novell |
| expect the development of cloud computing can help | | | | identity and security management solutions provide |
| today's global enterprises to improve collaboration | | | | customers can cloud data center assets, as the |
| efficiency. | | | | expansion of the capacity. Intelligent workload |
| Problems | | | | management, a core principle of the integration of |
| 1 / 3 (30%) of respondents said that the | | | | resources in the cloud identity and security |
| development of cloud computing on the road to a | | | | management. This will ensure compliance strategy |
| major obstacle is safety. 82% of respondents said | | | | and process and prudent business practices are fully |
| that data privacy is the primary issue of concern. | | | | implemented. |
| Although most of the representatives surveyed | | | | "Cloud computing will change the way companies |
| (88%) have said, IT managers are very clear from | | | | operate. Service delivery model has great scalability, |
| the whole Dell Inspiron 500m battery cloud computing | | | | resource and capacity-intensive low, making |
| benefits, but there are still 20% of people think that | | | | institutions to lower the cost of purchased robust |
| all corporate chief technology officer who is on cloud | | | | and reliable infrastructure and application services." |
| computing lack of understanding, which restricted the | | | | Vodacom managed services business company |
| clouds in enterprise promotion. | | | | executive head of Richard Vester said. "But for |
| HP Labs head of Chris Whitney Singapore pointed out | | | | security concerns has been the adoption of cloud |
| that "in the Cloud Asia 2010 on, it is clear that many | | | | computing constraints. Our collaboration with Novell |
| Asian companies are seriously considering the use of | | | | will allow us to provide support for customer specific |
| cloud technology, and familiar with the benefits of | | | | security policies and compliance requirements of |
| cloud technology, but still support the adoption of this | | | | infrastructure and application services." |
| technology wait and see. the next few years in Asia, | | | | The partners have extensive experience working, |
| cloud computing is a critical period of development. I | | | | application providers to help provide security in the |
| strongly recommend the Asian business world, from | | | | cloud in the commercial business, such as BasisOne, a |
| other parts of the successful blueprint of best | | | | South African hosting service provider, its platform is |
| practices and lessons learned, using the environment | | | | the application of a Novell identity and security |
| for Asia's diverse cloud computing services and | | | | solutions, and commercial use of Vodacom's private |
| infrastructure. " | | | | cloud solutions for the SAP ERP as a service |
| About the survey | | | | deployment. Using Novell identity and security |
| Cloud Asia 2010 held in May 2010, from Asia and | | | | solutions, BasisOne organization can be a business |
| other parts of the members of academic institutions, | | | | security policy extends to some Sony VGP-BPS2 |
| as well as from public and private industry sectors | | | | battery applications, these applications run in the |
| (such as bio-medicine, digital media, natural sciences | | | | Vodacom business's advanced data center virtual |
| and manufacturing industries) research institutes and | | | | server. |
| laboratories representatives participated in this | | | | "Cloud computing is the Vodacom business the |
| conference. HP's investigation of the 100 delegates | | | | company's strategy, we are very pleased to be their |
| attending the meeting. | | | | cloud strategy works and technology solutions |
| Vodacom will use a number of intelligent workload | | | | partner." Novell EMEA vice president of service |
| management technology Novell | | | | provider said Markus J. Krauss. "Novell is trying to |
| Across Africa to provide infrastructure and SaaS | | | | become intelligent workload management market |
| Solutions | | | | leader, Vodacom Business is another example of this |
| May 24, 2010, Beijing - Recently, Novell announced | | | | strategy. We look forward to a more agile agile |
| the company and Vodacom Business will cooperate in | | | | partners, cost-effective, scalable way to manage, |
| the network provider's cloud hosting solution | | | | optimize and secure protect the cloud environment, |
| integrates a number of Novell's intelligent workload | | | | so that their customers can fully benefit from cloud |
| management products, including: SUSE ® Linux | | | | computing. |
| Enterprise Server, Platespin ® Virtualization and | | | | |