How to turn big data into a big opportunity in Hong Kong

In today’s ever-changing business environment, enterprises face challenges brought by big data, which means data comes in larger volumes, greater variety and faster velocity.

IDC predicts that the amount of data stored electronically has reached 35 trillion gigabytes, which is equivalent to the volume of stacks of DVDs accumulated from earth to the moon and back.

Every day, many enterprises are looking for new ways to stay competitive, while dealing with massive amounts of data in new and diversified formats, as seen with the significant role played by multi-media content, customer information, social media and device data in this IT era, where the expectation for improving processing time is also present.

Hong Kong, the 2nd most competitive market in Asia, is facing the uncertain global economic situation. Many enterprises, be it Hong Kong-based MNC or local corporate, are under severe challenges to stay competitive, while looking for ways to manage the possible problems attached with the data explosion: managing mixed workloads, uncontrolled data growth and risk, high management cost and increased customer demand.

A visionary enterprise will certainly go for a smart way to deal with the data explosion with an easy and cost-effective solution, for example, a one-stop service which can tailor the service to address the needs without getting the IT team any extra troubles; while making use of the data and resources to excel.

It is especially crucial for enterprises to access the data easily and safely and manage the massive data of the non-mission application and data so as to grab the business opportunities to stay even ahead of the crowd. Cloud Service360, a cloud-based IT service delivered by ACW Services and supported by Hitachi Data Systems in Hong Kong, is one of the examples of these services.

An ideal cloud service offers enterprises the balanced capability to have full access of business information and personalized desktops anywhere, anytime, and in a very simple way, while improving speed of search and retrieval, enhanced collaboration in document management.

It can be simply executed with some core features that a cloud solution can offer, for example, business intelligence, desktop virtualization or cloud based document managment, which enable customers to make better and faster decisions in this fast changing world.

Last but not least, an ideal cloud service also helps prevent confidential business information from leakage and cyber attack with key “Security-as-a-Service” features on prevention, detection and reaction such as encryption and unified threat management gateway, etc.

Undoubtedly, the explosion in data is changing how an enterprise work and perform. Only enterprises which can take the opportunity to manage its data securely and at the same time making data its more accessible will be the overall champion in achieving best business round-the-clock productivity.