November 08, 2011
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The Converged Infrastructure Trend in Australia and New Zealand
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This IDC Insight provides a qualitative analysis of the converged infrastructure market in A/NZ and argues the demand for such offerings by large enterprises will continue to amplify as they look to consolidate, standardise, and optimise their infrastructure in scale-out environments. Additionally, cloud service providers will look to converged infrastructure environments as a way to reduce capex and opex as they play in an increasingly commoditised space.
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October 13, 2011
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Adoption Plans for Virtual Client Computing in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan): Riding on the Success
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The market acknowledges a subsequent relationship between the implementation of server virtualization and that of client virtualization. This according to IDC’s Asia/Pacific Software Survey, 2011.
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October 13, 2011
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VMware: Expanding into the Cloud in the Philippines
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Virtualization and Cloud experts, VMware, have rolled out their latest offering in virtualization technology and cloud computing. They have also shared their strategy to grow business in the Philippines. Read more to find out how this could affect your business.
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October 13, 2011
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Virtualisation in Australia: What’s Next?
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Australia is the world’s leading country when it comes to the penetration of server virtualisation in the commercial space. Read more to find out virtualisation trends in this market.
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September 23, 2011
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Capacity, Capability, and Profitability: IBM Expands Its Software Partner Enablement Strategy in SEA
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This IDC Flash assesses IBM’s software channel partner programs that it continues to roll out proactively for its partners, with a specific focus on how these are being executed within the Southeast Asian region.
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September 21, 2011
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Buyer Conversations: Are Employees Ready for Social Media?
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Following discussions with four Hong Kong based CIOs, IDC summarise the views on key challenges of today’s IT landscape. One of key issues discussed is the "consumerization of IT".
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September 21, 2011
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Buyer Conversations: Business Process Management Drives Operational Excellence in Private Banking
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This IDC Flash looks at an ongoing BPM implementation at the wholesale arm of a multinational bank with a specific focus on the Asia/Pacific portion of the project that is being driven out of Singapore.
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September 21, 2011
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The Dynamic Go-to-Market Ecosystem: The Only Thing Constant Is Dramatic Change
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Presented at IDC Directions in Singapore, this session outlines key trends in the channel ecosystem as the Asia/Pacific partner community transforms to align with changing client needs and new technologies.
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September 21, 2011
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Buyer Conversations: Key Challenges on IT Security Faced by Asian Banks
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IT Security in banking is one of most critical issue that all organizations must address. This IDC study discusses the IT security challenges for this sector based on interviews with banking and financial executives across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan).
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September 21, 2011
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Buyer Conversations: The Critical Link between Business Process and UC&C
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Socialytic applications are beginning to be implemented in Asia/Pacific organizations. Based on end user discussions, here we outline the factors an organization should consider when deploying such applications.
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September 01, 2011
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F5 Partner Program: Strategies for Growth
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F5 Networks remains committed to the application delivery market and continues its focus on strengthening engagement and profitability for its partners. Read more to understand their key initiatives and associated implications for partners in India, as announced at their January partner event in Goa.
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August 21, 2011
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Buyer Conversations: Is Cost and Pricing Pressure Driving Cloud Infrastructure Buying Decisions?
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How do partners choose vendor’s for their cloud offerings? In this report we look at Tata Communications’ choice of infrastructure vendors for its new InstaCompute public cloud service as sample guidance and learnings for both vendors and partners.
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August 21, 2011
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Growth for Everyone: IDC Top 10 Asia/Pacific Country Predictions
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Summarizing the top IDC Predictions and common trends from across the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) countries, this document outlines areas of opportunities and interesting market dynamics.
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August 21, 2011
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SAP’s HANA: The In-Memory Bet for the Analytical Appliance War - Asia/Pacific View
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Analytics is one of client’s top priorities, and one of newer areas of interest for this solution category are the new analytic appliances. We look at the key trends for these solutions in Asia/Pacific, with SAP’s recently announced High Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) as a featured example.
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August 21, 2011
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Buyer Conversations: "BIG DATA" in Asia: Are Analytical Appliances the Answer?
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Addressing the Big Data challenge is key issue for end users today. In this study, we focus on organizational challenges and lessons learned from the implementation of a business analytics project across multiple countries in the region.
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August 19, 2011
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Impact of Cloud on the Asia/Pacific IT Channel Ecosystem
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Resale profit margins are declining, yet channels remain slow to respond. IDC takes a look at the effects of cloud on the channel players who have to adapt to the new realities or risk losing their place in the IT landscape.
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August 19, 2011
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Channel Alert: Time to Get Smart on Cloud Pricing Models
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End-user ICT consumption models are changing as the industry moves toward service metering or usage-based pricing. What is the smart approach to this new emerging IT delivery and consumption model? IDC gives its assessment.
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August 19, 2011
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Say Hello to the New Enterprise Infrastructure Environment
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The dynamics of IT infrastructure purchasing has changed dramatically as a result of the recent economic downturn and cloud computing hype. IDC highlights these changes and the implications for IT sellers.
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August 19, 2011
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ICT Transformation in APAC Goes Mainstream
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In IDC’s annual Top 10 ICT predictions for 2011, socialytic applications, mobilution and customer centricity are tipped to be some of the key areas of growth. Download these slides for a better understanding of these trends.
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August 19, 2011
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Aligning Your Channel Business Vertically: Industry Outlook for 2011
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Summarizing IDC Insights Top 10 Predictions for 2011 in the manufacturing, healthcare, government/public sector and financial services industries, we provide guidance on key opportunities. Also look at our webcasts for further information on each specific industry.
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August 19, 2011
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IDC Top 10 Predictions for Asia/Pacific Channels: A Year of Transformation for the Channel Ecosystem
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2011 will be a year of significant opportunity for the partner and channel community. This report outlines the top 10 channel ecosystem trends and transformations and how vendors and partners need to align to address the next wave of growth.
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August 19, 2011
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Cisco Services: Strengthening the Partner Ecosystem
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This IDC Insight assesses Cisco Services’ strategy for building out its services capability and partner engagement in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) region as shared at Cisco’s Analyst Conference held in September 2010.
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August 19, 2011
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Top 10 Trends on Every CIO’s Watchlist for 2010
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From the "great realignment of IT" to "everything as a service", this IDC Asia/Pacific IT Industry Recovery Watch report identifies the most important trends and issues that CxOs should be aware of in 2010.
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August 19, 2011
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Prepare for Change in Software Consumption Models
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Software as a service (SaaS) has opened up more software delivery options for CIOs. What does this mean for software vendors and their partners? IDC gives the lowdown on the changing software landscape.
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August 19, 2011
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Dell, Oracle, Amazon, SAP... How will the ’mega-vendors’ attempt to establish their power positions
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It is clear that cloud-driven transformations will shape M&A activities in 2010. IDC offers predictions on the key trends, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships that will likely occur in the cloud space in the coming year.
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August 19, 2011
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IDC Event Flash: IBM Enhances Partner Support
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Through its "Growth Through Skills" software distribution strategy, IBM wants to help channel partners develop their skills and find new business opportunities. What does this mean for its business partners in ASEAN?
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August 19, 2011
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Vendor Performance: 1st Half 2010 Review and Outlook for 2011
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How did the vendors fare in the first half of 2010? Download this report for performance statistics in the segments of PC, Network Equipment, Server and Disk Storage.
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August 19, 2011
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Harnessing Cloud Technologies and Services to Drive Business Agility
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New ICT models, particularly in the area of cloud technologies, are poised to take center stage. Gain a better understanding of the various cloud deployment models to prepare your business offerings in this area.
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August 19, 2011
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Buyer Conversations: IaaS - Why a Perfect IaaS Solution Sometimes... Isn’t...
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service is a significant opportunity that many partners and end users are investigating. This Buyer Conversation provides advice to vendor community and guidelines for users arising from discussions with an Australian-based partner.
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August 19, 2011
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Symantec Partner Program Enhancements: Implications in Asia/Pacific
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Symantec’s recent Asia/Pacific partner program announcements highlighted their significant organizational commitment to their channel - and the focus on developing and rewarding capability. This update outlines the new Masters level, new Specializations, and Services strategy and channel implications.
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August 19, 2011
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IDC Event Flash: Tata Communications Partners with Google
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Tata Communications and Google India entered a partnership in late 2010 that will bring collaborative connectivity tools closer to SMBs in the Indian market. Read more on the implications to Tata’s channel ecosystem.
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August 19, 2011
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IT Services Players to Gain from Shift Toward Cloud
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The financial model of the cloud has set the scene perfectly for the locus of power to shift from traditional enterprise hardware and software vendors to the services players. IDC looks at the prospects in 2010.
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August 19, 2011
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Cisco Partner Summit 2011
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Market leader Cisco continues to evolve channel programs to better meet the evolving technology landscape and their customer & partner needs. This IDC report focuses on announcements from WW Cisco Partner Executive event in March 2011.
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August 19, 2011
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IDC Event Flash: NTT Communications Goes Global
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NTT, Japan’s largest service provider, purchased Dimension Data, a South Africa-based IT SP and product reseller in July 2010 - for US$3.2Bn. Find out about the implications of this purchase to existing reseller partners.
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December 03, 2010
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VMware vForum 2010
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This IDC Flash discusses VMware’s cloud computing strategy and offerings that were announced at the VMware vForum Singapore 2010
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