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With the increasing buzz surrounding social media, more and more businesses are jumping onto the social media bandwagon to stay ahead of the game. While more organizations are starting to see the benefits, many remain unsure of social media from a business perspective and how to go about deploying it.
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The ever-evolving technology landscape continues to bring new opportunities for educators. The widespread adoption of tablets, mobile applications, social networks and digital content has led students to expect more interaction via software and digital content as they learn. As such, education investments need to focus on tools that not only provide value by motivating students to be active participants in their own education but also increase collaboration and connections in the learning environment.
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Today's CIOs face growing pressure to provide support for employees who bring their own smartphones and tablets to the workplace. Should organizations have device and usage policies? What other potential issues should CIOs consider and address once the decision has been made to allow employees to use their own devices for work?
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Against the backdrop of an uncertain global macroeconomic environment, SMEs in Asia/Pacific are looking to their partners and IT vendors to help drive greater efficiencies and higher returns on their ICT budgets. IDC research shows that SMEs are taking a strategic view toward IT investments, with strong IT spending growth among those in the BFSI and manufacturing sectors.
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Successful businesses are widely acknowledged as those which are agile and flexible. Often high costs and long implementation cycles prevent internal IT from responding effectively to the organization's expansion strategies or to provide better and higher quality customer services in a faster manner.
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Economic instability across the globe is still continuing to create uncertainty and vulnerability. For the Asia/Pacific region, the relatively lower-than-anticipated growth rates for China continue to pose a threat, while India has faced its share of political instability and changes to foreign investment policies. In terms of IT implementation and infrastructure, the tier 1 cities in both China and India have become saturated. As such, the IT vendor community and local governments alike are looking to two specific areas to drive growth: the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) segment and the tier 2 cities. The SMEs are undoubtedly the rising stars in the arena of IT spend.
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In recent years, the consumerization of IT has wreaked havoc across the enterprise mobility solution ecosystem, from enterprises that need to allow employee-owned devices onto their network, to the enterprise vendors whose applications must serve across a multitude of devices and operating systems, and to the mobile operators who, like SingTel, are not only trying to help their customers manage their increased risk, but also capitalize on the opportunities that this unique environment creates. However, to successfully address the increasingly complex customer requirements and opportunities, it requires not only expertise on mobility, but also on IT systems integration to bring together the multiple products that create a seamless solution which could drive productivity and return on investment.
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Open source software arrived in mainstream IT markets nearly 20 years ago and has since undergone something of a revolution. From what was perceived as a developer- or hobbyist-only platform, today open source software can be found in some of the most rigorous and demanding environments. As an operating system, it spans almost every conceivable hardware platform, is deeply supported at an engineering level, and has the endorsement of all the leading application software vendors. In spite of all this, there is still a misconception in some pockets of the market over how "enterprise ready" open source software, and specifically Linux, is.
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Storage has long been the most conservative component of many datacenter environments, and as a result, very little has changed within storage since the introduction of networked storage. However, continuing changes in architectures and business applications are about to fundamentally impact the way storage is procured, deployed, provisioned and managed. A radical shake-up due to changing architectures, data types and demands on the storage infrastructure will drive the need for an almost complete fresh approach to storage.
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Businesses are operating in rapidly changing markets, which means business strategies have to keep pace and adapt to take advantage of new market conditions. Many enterprise applications are, by contrast, relatively static and unable to evolve at the same pace, and calls for a layer of software that can support both the highly changing business demands that require access to and information from more static and less flexible business applications. Middleware has emerged as a facilitator for this dynamic, residing — as its name suggests — between, connects, and enables applications, data and remote embedded devices to provide a layer of programming that can enable IT to deliver on the business requirements for user-facing solutions.
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