CSA APAC Congress 2016

Emerging from Dark Cloud Arising

The global economy slowdown is seeing share prices of technology firms, especially firms providing cloud computing or related services taking a beating. We have created a cloud industry that today saw adoption rates at the highest and a high service provisioning maturity. In a self-fulfilling prophecy, cloud computing firms saw demand for their services decreases due to lower manufacturing demand, which sort of validated what we were selling at the start - an on-demand cloud that plays on the OpEx! So we are seeing validation of our 2009 sales pitch - where companies actually managed to downscale their demand for cloud services in accordance with market trends and demand, in REAL TIME!

So does this mean that we shot ourselves in our foot? That we shall instead “introduce” inefficiencies into the cloud? Or shall we be looking at the building from a solid foundation - leveraging the cloud, building more applications o top of it, creating that delta of services that enable business and create customer satisfaction! So instead of a doomsday message, the “The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse - Mobile, Big Data Analytics and Social (On top of Cloud) ” are bringing new opportunities that will drive the global economy forward just like what cloud computing did back in 2009! Behind every cloud is another cloud. We just have to make sure that there is a silver lining in that as well!