Cloud adoption among retail CIOs in Asia Pacific is currently slow, but is expected to take off in the next 2-5 years.

According to a report from IDC Energy Insights, CIOs and IT managers in the utility sector should deploy multiple strategies to reduce IT costs and complexity.

Regulation is seen as one of the biggest impediments of cloud computing adoption among CIOs in financial services companies in Asia Pacific region, says IDC Financial Insights.

India's wellness industry, considered to be one of the most recession-proof sectors, continued to grow at a rapid pace and is expected to cross $4 Billion by the end of 2012, according to the findings of a latest study by New York-based research firm AMI

The focus on the customer is increasingly important for business leaders, despite times of continued economic uncertainty and government austerity, says Gartner.

The spending on banking technology is expected to be around 20 percent of the total expenditures by banks and will grow at an annual rate of 14.2 percent.

The healthcare industry is waking up to the benefits of cloud architectures in solving their human resource issues, and helping them in their strategic business goals.

IT departments need to position themselves as cloud services brokerage providers to the enterprise, and regain control.

Solutions to help organizations acquire skills required to successfully architect, build, and transform their IT infrastructures.

Large companies in Latin America and Asia Pacific are the most aggressive adopters of the cloud computing paradigm.