SINGAPORE--CIOs surveyed in the country seem more cynical about the cloud compared with their regional counterparts, but they still have plans to adopt cloud services, according to a new study by Springboard Research.Michael Barnes, Springboard's Asia-Pacific vice president of software search, told ZDNet Asia that 60 percent of Singapore IT decision makers said the cloud was overhyped, while 37 percent of counterparts in the Asia-Pacific region echoed similar views.
This could in part be due to the focus vendors in the country have placed on cloud initiatives, as well as moves by the Singapore government to embrace the deployment platform, Barnes said in interview Tuesday to discuss the survey results. Full Story
