IDC: PaaS catching up on SaaS dominance in APAC
IDC forecasts that the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan and China (APeJC) public cloud services (PCS) market to reach US$32.5 billion in 2022, with a year-on-year (YoY) growth of 25.3%. PCS includes infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker, […]
PLDT announces digital transformation initiatives
The PLDT Group has further expanded its total fiber footprint to over 1.1 million kilometers, consisting of international and domestic fiber, as of end-June 2023. PLDT’s fiber infrastructure supports Smart’s mobile network, which covers around 97% of the population with 3G, 4G/LTE, and 5G. “During the pandemic, we had to deliver wireless products at a […]
New managed storage service set to revolutionize enterprise workloads in the cloud
NetApp announced an extension of its partnership with Google Cloud to deliver enhanced storage performance with the simplicity and the flexibility of the cloud through the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. The new managed storage service allows customers to efficiently bring business-critical workloads across both Windows and Linux environments to Google Cloud. Without refactoring code or […]
Kick-starting your enterprise AI journey
Gartner defines Artificial Intelligence (AI) “as applying advanced analysis and logic-based techniques, including machine learning (ML), to interpret events, support and automate decisions, and take actions.” Rowan Curran, an analyst at Forrester predicts that leveraging AI will be a foundational element to businesses in 2023 and beyond. Data shows that a large majority of businesses […]