Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing

The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) Cloud Computing

1. The Youth Olympic Games here in August presented organizers with a formidable, but temporary, computing hurdle: Manage 3,600 athletes, 20,000 volunteers and 370,000 spectators for two weeks. Rather than buy or lease the equipment necessary to run the event, organizers rented the required computer capacity from a data center run by Singapore Telecommunications. The Games were a showcase for cloud computing in Asia: software, data storage, networking and even computing equipment on tap — as much as a customer desired for only as long as needed. (Read Full Article)

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