Stories about: APAC

Australia could be the cloud computing hub of the Asia Pacific within the next 20 years, according to top government CIOs and industry experts.

A global e-business and security certification organization has warned that many commercial applications are being produced across the globe daily, creating new opportunities for malicious attacks on commercial institutions and government.

Awareness and familiarity with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) across the Asia-Pacific region has reached an all time high, according to Springboard Research.

Tandberg Data has announced it Viking FS-800U 2U NAS appliance that supports up to eight hard disks using SAS 3Gbps or SATA II connectivity.

Australian universities were the cream of the crop in Google's inaugural University Online Marketing Challenge, with a student team from the University of Western Australia named global winner, while a team from UNSW took out the APAC regional win.

WiMAX, a new broadband wireless access technology, is expected to gather strong momentum in the Asia Pacific region with WiMAX services revenues estimated to grow from US$58 million in 2007 to $5.46 billion by 2012, according to the latest report by Springboard Research, an IT research company. This translates to a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 148 percent for the period.

All over Beijing, Olympic countdown clocks tick off the seconds that China has awaited for seven years: the moments until Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:00 pm, when the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics begin.

Although it has, for some time, been known as a global open source database systems provider, MySQL has not been actively marketing in the Philippines until recently. During the release of MySQL Enterprise Server 5.0 in the country, APAC senior vice president Larry Stefonic said they believe the Philippines is a strong market as evident in downloads being made from the country, even when they have not been heavily marketing in the country yet.

Analyst firms have clashed over which country will dominate the Asia Pacific IT services market by 2011.

Sybase subsidiary, Sybase 365, has created a new business unit, mCommerce, to focus exclusively on expanding its presence in the mobile banking and mobile payments industry.

Linux and High Performance Computing go hand in hand. So to see what Australian users have been doing with Linux and HPC, this year's linux.conf.au is holding a Birds of a Feather session on the topic. Before the session kicks off we take time to speak to the BoF coordinator Anthony David. During the working day David works for SGI as the onsite engineer for the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). Here, we ask him about the state of HPC in Australia and where it is heading. The following responses are his own personal beliefs and not that of his employer.