The morning “CXO panel” was moderated by Mr. Peter
Yan (Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer,
SUNeVision Holdings Limited). Different panellists had
made a lot of comments towards the Cloud adoption:
Gains & Pains. Daniel from OGCIO told that government
already setup the strategy four years ago and has the
public cloud service to allow different departments
and also data.one service available for public use. And
Ms. Jean Hung (Chief Information Systems Services
Manager, MTR Corporation Limited) mentioned that
Cloud service is not highly adopted in MTRC internally
yet.Andy of AA emphasised those CSP should preach the
right angle, like how to solve those enterprise pains. Mr.
Micky Lo (Head of Information Risk Management APAC,
the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation) said that
most of the enterprises love to use Cloud, because there
is no need to own any IT assets. However, regulators in
the financial industry may not encourage and put lots
of barriers to let those bankers hard to consider to
deploy cloud such as recently data leakage case SONY
pictures and recommend those consideration need to
be solved before accept to use cloud. Another expert
Mr. Tom O’Reilly (Head of Hong Kong and Taiwan,
Head of Operations, Asia Pacific, Amazon Web Services
Asia Pacific), one of the biggest Cloud providers in
the world indicated Cloud users should control what
types of information could be put in the cloud, and
determine who can access to what, too. And different
connectivity options also allow users to improve the
security protection such as encrypted line or private
line. Leo of Opentext mentioned that customers might
get different expectations about SLA and requirements
to use Cloud. CSPs may not easily replicate the same
configuration for any customers. Mr. Garrick Ng (Head
of Systems Engineering, Cisco Hong Kong & Macau)
reminded that it was easy to sign up for cloud use but
might not be easy to leave and confirmed those data get
totally erased from previous subscribed work-load. And,
CSPs can join the InterCloud program liked the alliance
program at airline industry, which no need to build
everything themselves but still can have a better end to
end services partnering with other ecosystem partners
to fulfill customer requirement. Dr. Chung mentioned
that most of the start-ups could leverage the Cloud
technology to minimise initial setup cost & to minimise
most of the financial risk.
早上的「CXO論壇」由任景信先生(新意網集團執
行董事暨行政總裁)主持。各小組成員就採用雲端技
術的付出和回報作出了評價。政府資訊科技總監辦公
室的賴錫璋先生表示,政府已於四年前訂下策略,並
開展公眾雲端服務,讓不同的部門及data.one服務可
為公眾使用。港鐵集團的熊景明女士提到,雲端服務
尚未於港鐵集團內部得到高度採用。機場管理局的卞
家振先生強調,雲端服務供應商應教授正確的角度,
例如怎樣解決企業面對的困苦。紐約梅隆銀行集團的
盧振東先生表示,大部分企業樂於使用雲端技術,因
為無須擁有資訊科技資產。不過,金融業監管機構未
必鼓勵此做法,反而設上很多障礙,令銀行從業員很
難實施雲端技術,例如有鑑於近來SONY電影的資料
洩漏,便建議接受使用雲端技術之前須作出相關考
慮。另一位來自全世界最大的雲端服務供應商之一亞
瑪遜網路服務系統的專家 Tom O’Reilly 先生表示,
雲端服務使用者應控制甚麼類型的資料放到雲端上,
並決定誰人可接觸甚麼資料。同時,不同的連接選擇
亦可容許用戶改善保安,例如加密線路和私人線路
等。OpenText的楊偉亮先生提到,客戶可能對服務級
別協議和使用雲端技術的要求有不同的預期,雲端服
務供應商未必可以輕易為任何客戶複製相同的設定。
思科的Garrick提醒,注冊使用雲端服務容易,但終止
並確認之前註冊的服務有關的資料完全刪除卻可能不
易。雲端服務供應商亦可以參加InterCloud計劃,例如
航空業的聯盟計劃,便無須自行建立一切,也能與其
他生態系統的夥伴達成端到端夥伴關係,以滿足客戶
的要求。鍾博士提到,大部分新創業務都可善用雲端
技術,盡量減低初期設立支出和大部分的財務風險。
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