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  • Public cloud adoption growing globally

    Public cloud adoption growing globally

    The use of public cloud is increasing globally, with many organizations seeing substantial process and financial benefits, according to a new report conducted by Vanson Bourne for Barracuda Networks.

    On average, organizations have nearly 40% of their infrastructure in the public cloud today, with the expectation to increase this to 70% over the next five years.

    Four in 10 reported that their organization relied on public cloud deployments to expand their services, often replicating those over multiple regions, while 30% said they only migrated selected services to the cloud and kept the balance on premises.

    Overall, the survey found that organizations are growing more comfortable with hybrid environments that deploy a range of public cloud services along with more traditional on-premises infrastructure.

    The research surveyed 1,300 IT decision makers from organizations using public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and from Asia Pacific (APAC).

    Of the 450 APAC IT decision makers who participated in the survey, 150 of them were from ASEAN countries Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. The report outlines the respondents’ use of public cloud, benefits of public cloud, challenges with public cloud, and public cloud security.

    However, there are still a significant number of organizations that are not clear on the shared security model and the implication to their data and applications.

    “The challenges in migrating legacy security appliances and architectures require having the right infrastructure for securing hybrid cloud solutions. Organizations need to select cloud-ready security solutions that are designed for the new architectures and capabilities enabled by public and hybrid cloud adoption,” Barracuda SVP and GM of security Hatem Naguib said.

    Nearly all the respondents (99%) said that their organization has seen benefits as a result of moving to the public cloud, including greater scalability and reduced IT expenditures. The survey found, on average, that organizations didn’t use a single cloud provider for everything, and cited a number of reasons for this: Top of mind was that different providers had different strengths (63%), followed by the view that this increased security (51%) and helped keep costs down (42%).

    But the public cloud also involves fresh challenges. Security remains to be the biggest challenge when it comes to using the public cloud – 71% felt that security concerns restricted their ability to migrate workloads to the public cloud. Nine in 10 (91%) of organizations reported they worried about their use of public cloud, with cyberattacks being the chief concern at 54%. Phishing (50%), DDoS (47%), APTs (45%), and ransomware (41%) were the main threats that most conerned them.

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  • Orange Business launches public cloud suite in APAC

    Orange Business launches public cloud suite in APAC

    Orange Business Services, a subsidiary of French multinational telecoms operator Orange, has launched its suite of global public cloud services in Asia Pacific.

    The new suite consists of three pillars – the Flexible Engine IaaS/PaaS public cloud platform developed in partnership with Huawei, professional services to assist customers in their migration, and managed services to operate customer applications and legacy systems.

    The suite will enable enterprises to digitally transform their business operations and support Asian businesses in their expansion plans across China, Southeast Asia and Europe. It also supports European companies with their business development across Southeast Asia and China.

    Already available in Europe, the services will continue to be rolled out in the US in 2017 and in the Middle East and Africa in 2018.

    “Businesses around the globe recognize that it is imperative for them to digitally transform in order to remain competitive,” says Helmut Reisinger, executive vice president for International Business, Orange Business Services.

    “Cloud adoption continues to be one of their top technology focus for 2017 as they seek to digitally transform their infrastructure. However, this has become a significant challenge due to infrastructure constraints, security concerns and limits in scalability especially for multinational enterprises.”

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  • Oracle, Fujitsu launch public cloud services in Japan

    Oracle, Fujitsu launch public cloud services in Japan

    Fujitsu and Oracle Japan have launched Oracle Cloud Platform services, including Oracle Database Cloud Service, via a Fujitsu data center, a first for Japan.

    Oracle and Fujitsu have a long history of collaboration when it comes to processors, servers, and software. This synergy now extends to the data center, where Oracle’s cloud services will be available locally to Japanese customers backed by Fujitsu.

    Fujitsu has the largest number of Oracle-certified Oracle Cloud engineers in Japan, and offers a coordinated portfolio of services to assist in the deployment and operations of Oracle Public Cloud, to help organizations build new modern cloud-based solutions and transition their enterprise systems, including mission-critical operations, to the cloud.

    Fujitsu and Oracle formed a strategic alliance in July last year, based on a strategic collaboration to deliver enterprise-grade, world-class cloud services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries around the world.

    Together with making Oracle Public Cloud services available from Fujitsu’s robust and reliable data center in Japan, can now be used as part of Fujitsu Cloud Service K5, Fujitsu’s public cloud service.

    “The Oracle Cloud Platform running in Fujitsu’s Japan datacenter alongside Fujitsu Cloud Service K5 DB powered by Oracle Cloud is a natural continuation of the three decade history Oracle and Fujitsu have working together to help customers achieve competitive advantage,” said Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle.

    “By combining Fujitsu’s system integration expertise with Oracle’s cloud services, Fujitsu and Oracle will accelerate the transition of our joint customers’ enterprise systems to cloud.”

    Oracle Cloud offers a complete range of public cloud services across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Oracle Cloud Platform, which includes Oracle’s analytics, application development, data management, and integration services, has experienced steady growth, adding thousands of customers in fiscal 2017.

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  • Public cloud market set to grow 17% in 2016

    Public cloud market set to grow 17% in 2016

    The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17% in 2016 to $208.6 billion, according to Gartner.

    The highest growth will come from IaaS, which is projected to grow 43% in 2016. SaaS, one of the largest segments in the global cloud services market, is expected to grow 22% in 2016 to reach $38.9 billion.

    “There’s no question there is great appetite within organizations to use cloud services, but there are still challenges for organizations as they make the move to the cloud,” said Sid Nag, research director at Gartner. “Even with the high rate of predicted growth, a large number of organizations still have no current plans to use cloud services.”

    IT modernization is currently the top driver of public cloud adoption, followed by cost savings, innovation, agility and other benefits. The focus on IT modernization indicates a more sophisticated and strategic use of public cloud services.

    Security and/or privacy concerns continue to be the top inhibitors to public cloud adoption, despite the strong security track record and increased transparency of leading cloud providers.

    Most organizations are already using a combination of cloud services from different cloud providers. While public cloud usage will continue to increase, the use of private cloud and hosted private cloud services is also expected to increase at least through 2017.

    The increased use of multiple public cloud providers, plus growth in various types of private cloud services, will create a multi-cloud environment in most enterprises and a need to coordinate cloud usage using hybrid scenarios.

    Although hybrid cloud scenarios will dominate, there are many challenges that inhibit working hybrid cloud implementations. Organizations that are not planning to use hybrid cloud indicated a number of concerns, including integration challenges, application incompatibilities, a lack of management tools, a lack of common APIs and a lack of vendor support.

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  • Indonesia AirAsia to Go Public

    Indonesia AirAsia to Go Public

    Budget airliner PT Indonesia AirAsia—the subsidiary of Malaysian AirAsia Berhad—is preparing to hold an initial public offering on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in late 2017 or early 2018. Before going public, the airline will seek to improve its finances.

    “We are improving our financial performance. We cannot say yet what the improvements are,” president director Sunu Widyatmoko told yesterday.

    He did say that the IPO proceeds will be used to increase AirAsia’s number of fleet and flights.

    Based on the financial statements of AirAsia Berhad, which owns 49 percent stake in Indonesia AirAsia, the subsidiary posted negative performances last year with revenues dropping 37 percent to Rp5.02 trillion.

    The main reason for the income decline was a decrease in passengers’ volume by 22 percent.

    In December 2015, Indonesia AirAsia recorded a loss of Rp885.2 billion and a net loss of Rp2.33 trillion. It was an even bigger loss compared to 2014, when the company noted a loss of Rp635.8 billion and a net loss of Rp883.5 billion.

    The airliner also recorded a foreign exchange loss of Rp1.27 trillion last year, which prompted its Malaysian parent company to inject an additional capital of Rp2.05 trillion in quarter three, in the form of perpetual capital securities.

    Sunu said that another cause for last year’s major loss was the Flight QZ8501 disaster. The plane crashed while en route from Surabaya to Singapore, claiming the lives of 155 passengers and seven crew members.

    AirAsia Berhad CEO Tony Fernandes said the two main reasons why Indonesia AirAsia needs to become a listed company is to improve transparency and corporate management, and to allow Indonesian investors to own the airliner’s shares.

    Fernandes also said in Jakarta earlier this week that Indonesia AirAsia had gone through rough times last year, but the company now aims to leave that past behind and focus on business expansion.

    In mid-2015, Indonesia AirAsia is one of 13 airlines ordered by the Transportation Ministry to raise capital due to its negative equity. At that time, Indonesia AirAsia’s equity was minus Rp1.32 trillion, with liabilities amounting to Rp6.15 trillion and an assets value total of Rp4.83 trillion.

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