Cloud Optimization: Increased Business Efficiency

Aliza Shima Kasim, Industry Analyst, Asia Pacific ICT
Enterprises in Asia Pacific find themselves faced with challenges of economic volatility, globalization, ‘hackertism’, and commoditization of IT. Some trends sighted in the region are the shift of application networking in becoming the tools for optimizing the cloud. The typical challenges that enterprises face when moving to the cloud include increased latency, muddled bandwidth allocation, and poor user experience, to name a few. With cloud optimization, it will help enterprises to overcome the challenges in transforming their businesses into the cloud and ultimately increased its efficiency.
Jul 27 2012
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Cloud Optimization: Increased Business Efficiency
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