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November 08, 2011	The Converged Infrastructure Trend in Australia and New Zealand View Full Summary 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.
October 13, 2011	VMware: Expanding into the Cloud in the Philippines View Full Summary 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.
October 13, 2011	Virtualisation in Australia: What’s Next? View Full Summary 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.
October 13, 2011	Adoption Plans for Virtual Client Computing in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan): Riding on the Success View Full Summary 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.
September 23, 2011	Capacity, Capability, and Profitability: IBM Expands Its Software Partner Enablement Strategy in SEA View Full Summary 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.
September 21, 2011	Buyer Conversations: Key Challenges on IT Security Faced by Asian Banks View Full Summary 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).
September 21, 2011	Buyer Conversations: Are Employees Ready for Social Media? View Full Summary 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".
September 21, 2011	Buyer Conversations: The Critical Link between Business Process and UC&C View Full Summary 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.
September 21, 2011	The Dynamic Go-to-Market Ecosystem: The Only Thing Constant Is Dramatic Change View Full Summary 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.
September 21, 2011	Buyer Conversations: Business Process Management Drives Operational Excellence in Private Banking View Full Summary 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.
September 01, 2011	F5 Partner Program: Strategies for Growth View Full Summary 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.
August 21, 2011	SAP’s HANA: The In-Memory Bet for the Analytical Appliance War - Asia/Pacific View View Full Summary 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.
August 21, 2011	Buyer Conversations: "BIG DATA" in Asia: Are Analytical Appliances the Answer? View Full Summary 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.
August 21, 2011	Growth for Everyone: IDC Top 10 Asia/Pacific Country Predictions View Full Summary 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.
August 21, 2011	Buyer Conversations: Is Cost and Pricing Pressure Driving Cloud Infrastructure Buying Decisions? View Full Summary 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.
August 19, 2011	Aligning Your Channel Business Vertically: Industry Outlook for 2011 View Full Summary 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.
August 19, 2011	IDC Top 10 Predictions for Asia/Pacific Channels: A Year of Transformation for the Channel Ecosystem View Full Summary 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.
August 19, 2011	Cisco Services: Strengthening the Partner Ecosystem View Full Summary 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.
August 19, 2011	Buyer Conversations: IaaS - Why a Perfect IaaS Solution Sometimes... Isn’t... View Full Summary 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.
August 19, 2011	Symantec Partner Program Enhancements: Implications in Asia/Pacific View Full Summary 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.
August 19, 2011	Cisco Partner Summit 2011 View Full Summary 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.
August 19, 2011	ICT Transformation in APAC Goes Mainstream View Full Summary 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.
December 03, 2010	VMware vForum 2010 View Full Summary This IDC Flash discusses VMware’s cloud computing strategy and offerings that were announced at the VMware vForum Singapore 2010