{"id":8956,"date":"2015-05-19T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2015-05-19T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T10:32:35","slug":"traditional-ict-thinking-hampers-cloud-adoption-in-phl-says-globes-ernest-cu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/05\/19\/traditional-ict-thinking-hampers-cloud-adoption-in-phl-says-globes-ernest-cu\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional ICT thinking hampers cloud adoption in Phl, says Globe\u2019s Ernest Cu"},"content":{"rendered":"

SINGAPORE \u2013 The still pervasive traditional thinking in the world of information and communications technology (ICT) continues to hamper the adoption of cloud for many in the Philippines, according to Ernest Cu, CEO of telecommunications giant Globe Telecom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Globe Telecom\u2019s Ernest Cu noted that cloud adoption continues to be \u201can uphill climb\u201d in the Philippines. As such, he said that \u201ca new way of thinking\u201d needs to be introduced, with businesses needing to change their approaches.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In an exclusive interview with Upgrade Magazine<\/em> during the AWS Summit in Singapore, Cu noted that \u201ca lot of (business) executives still measure their power by \u2013 among others \u2013 the number of servers that they have, or the number of people that they manage.\u201d As such, cloud\u00a0adoption continues to be \u201can uphill climb.\u201d<\/p>\n

For instance, many people continue to believe that Internet is not secure, \u201cso they assume that cloud is not secure, too.\u201d There is therefore that assumption that putting up their own infrastructure rids businesses of the vulnerability. \u201cThis is simply not true,\u201d said Cu, adding that \u201ceven when you put your own infrastructure, you will still have the same vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n

As such, Cu said that \u201ca new way of thinking\u201d needs to be introduced, with businesses needing to change their approaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s innovate or die,\u201d Cu said.<\/p>\n

For Cu, ascertaining businesses approaches should depend on \u201chow robust (they are); on how many transactions (these approaches deliver to a company); on how resilient the approaches are,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if you have zero servers so long as what you use grow your business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of innovation, said Cu, is recognizing the benefits of cloud.<\/p>\n

In the case of Globe Telecom, part of growth comes\u00a0from its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with this partnership formed in 2011 \u201ceventually scaling from then\u201d.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2006, AWS has more than 40 services to support any cloud workload today, from enterprise applications, platform services, administration and security, infrastructure, technology and business support, and core services (computing, storage, databases and networking). With data center locations in the US, Brazil, Germany, Japan, and Ireland, it now has over one million customers, from startups, large enterprises, and government agencies across 190 countries. In Asia and the Pacific, and Oceania regions, it has data center locations in Australia, China and Singapore.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of services today are available at low cost of entry available in cloud,\u201d Cu said. \u201cThere were capabilities that used to be off-limits to small businesses in the past because of costs; but these are now readily available to all. The beauty of the cloud is you can scale (so there is) rooms for experimentations and trials; there are no commitment to high cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Globe Telecom \u2013 which currently serves over 49 million customers, has 6,182 employees, and has 967,000 business partners \u2013 the use of cloud has been helpful in: 1) the company\u2019s online selling efforts; 2) Globe\u2019s device registration engine; 3) ensuring Gen 3 retail experience; and 4) in the company\u2019s data platforms.<\/p>\n

The benefits for Globe Telecom of cloud adoption include: cost efficiency (with cuts in expenses for both capital expenditures and operating expenditures), cost optimization, enterprise scalability, business agility, and \u2013 most important for Cu \u2013 the ability of cloud to allow companies to focus on invention and experimentation.<\/p>\n

Cu said that the growing use of cloud for Globe Telecom is inevitable. \u201cIt is just going to keep (growing),\u201d he said. \u201cWe are serious in adopting cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

As one of the major telecommunications companies in the Philippines, Globe Telecom\u2019s postpaid customer base reached 2.3 million in 2014. Revenues from mobile postpaid business also rose by 11%, from 27.1 billion in 2013 to P29.9 billion generated last year. The revenues represented 38% of the company\u2019s total mobile revenues.<\/p>\n

For more information about Globe Telecom, visit <\/em>www.globe<\/strong>.com.ph\/<\/a>.
\n<\/em>For<\/em> more information about AWS, visit<\/em>\u00a0http:\/\/aws.amazon.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an exclusive interview with Upgrade Magazine during the AWS Summit in Singapore, Globe Telecom\u2019s Ernest Cu noted that \u201ca lot of (business) executives still measure their power by \u2013 among others \u2013 the number of servers that they have, or the number of people that they manage.\u201d As such, he said that \u201ca new way of thinking\u201d needs to be introduced, with businesses needing to change their approaches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[798,3036,107,1130,832,33],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-aws","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-technology","tag-ernest-cu","tag-globe-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}