Virtualization, Technology Trends 2012 in Asia Pacific

Welcoming the arrival of 2012, a number of predictions of the technology trends began to emerge. Virtualization, Technology Trends in Asia Pacific 2012. According to Steve Herrord (Chief Technology Officer / CTO and Senior Vice President of Research & Development, VMware), the use and adoption early in 2012 will increase.

This is supported by research conducted by Forrester recently launched in October 2011 and then by VMware. Research shows that more and more organizations are choosing to implement public and private cloud technology (41%), increased 10 percent compared to last year's research (38%).

Across the Asia Pacific region is now as much as 78 percent of organizations considering implementing virtualization as an important foundation for cloud computing (cloud computing). Are insurance companies (83%) and banking (81%) are most highly valued uses virtual technology.

Indeed, not all cloud computing can be applied to the company because of the different needs of each company. For that approach is needed for application development in the future.

The diversity of types and volume of the larger mobile devices will continue to affect, and this will encourage the adoption and use of technologies such cloud. VMware estimates that more companies will adopt virtualization system to maintain a sustainable business.

In the Asia Pacific region, the use of tablet device is predicted to increase rapidly given the growing number of devices that are cheaper options on the market. New solutions for low-cost devices that also change the focus of a virtual system, the solutions for large corporations to be a practical solution for the SMB segment and medium enterprises.

This is related to the Asia Pacific region because businesses want to break the cycle of the traditional system to switch to a system that is easy adoption and the reduction of capex / opex as a prime mover for the use of the host system.

However, the situation in 2012 is predicted uncertain. For that reason, virtualization and cloud computing solutions increasingly attractive because of the needs of the industry who expect the cost down.

Forrester survey conducted with the support of VMware shows that the hardware infrastructure costs lower and lower (76%) and the source / server is more modest (75%). Need for cloud management software recorded the highest in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Data privacy has become a major bottleneck in the application of cloud technologies in the enterprise, where 74% of respondents acknowledge this as a major issue compared to issues of data security. These two related issues of data collection and loss of control is a major concern in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia.