Asia Pacific set to flourish under an IT cloud

Stephen Withers
Monday, 21 November 2011 13:50

CA Technologies sees the Asia Pacific region as an important part of the company's future.

According to statistics quoted at the CA World conference in Las Vegas by Lionel Lim, CA Technologies' Asia Pacific regional president, the region's IT expenditure will overtake Western Europe's by 2015, making it the second-biggest market in the world. The majority of this growth will come from China, India and the ASEAN nations, he added.

Since 50% of Asia Pacific trade is within the region, he suggested that the region should be fairly resistant to the potential European economic downturn.

While Asia Pacific is open to new technology, it is also demanding and intolerant of poor service, he warned. So while the cloud provides an opportunity to design once and sell to many with excellent economies of scale, good systems management is essential - and that's where CA comes into the picture, said Mr Lim. Having the right tools in place means you don't buy more hardware than you need, and you know exactly why you need it when the time comes to buy more.

The company already has a significant presence in the region, including a strong Asia Pacific executive team (with several recent appointments) and CA's largest engineering facility (Hyderabad). Other R&D centres are located in Beijing, Sydney and Melbourne, he added.

CA also has a strong partner network in Asia Pacific (including Fujitsu, UXC, Wipro, Dimension Data, and Infosys), and a customer list that includes the top companies in multiple industry sectors including banks (three of Australia's big four are CA customers), telcos, retailers, utilities, governments, and energy and commodity businesses.

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