Asia-Pacific warms up to cloud
The Asia-Pacific region is seeing disparity in terms of business adoption of cloud services, reports CMS Wire.
Businesses are increasingly using, or planning to use, cloud services to help minimise costs and improve access to services and applications.
"These companies are looking for vendors and consultants that can help them enjoy serviced-based IT, particularly in the areas of cloud infrastructure and management," says Michael Barnes, Springboard Research's vice-president of software.
Finnish firm outsources ICT
Tapiola, a Finnish investment services firm, has decided to centralise selected ICT operating services to IT service company Tieto, states Market Watch.
The agreement covers Tapiola Group's mainframe capacity and related storage and backing up capacities, management and monitoring of the environment as well as application monitoring of systems.
Jussi Gronholm, vice-president of financial services for Tieto Finland, says: "Our strong expertise in the industry and extensive experience in outsourcing create a good foundation for mutual success and for supporting Tapiola Group's business growth and efficiency of operations.”
Tech giants build smart grids
Posco, ICT and IBM are to develop a renewable energy management system to supply electricity produced by renewable energy to factories, buildings and homes, says Korea IT Times.
The renewable energy management system is necessary system of smart grid operating facilities that produce electricity with renewable energy such as wind and photovoltaic power.
The three companies will establish an energy-operating plan by establishing a real-time monitoring system of the renewable energy.
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