In a new report, IDC Government Insights said that a new type of government cloud services, labeled "regional cloud hubs," will significantly change the way state and local governments procure online computing services.

Huawei has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member to help promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing.

Indonesian integrated telecoms and data service provider Indosat has partnered with Dimension Data to jointly offer an end-to-end portfolio of cloud computing services.

IBM is building a virtualized infrastructure for Quality HealthCare Medical Services (QHMS). The project involves the consolidation of more than 100 servers into a cloud environment that hosts its mission critical systems that serve over 600 medical centers in Hong Kong and Macau.

National Taiwan University, one of Taiwan's oldest and most respected tertiary education institutions, has chosen Citrix's NetScaler solution to provide data security for its campus cloud network.

'Eye on Earth' network, an online community for developing innovative services that map environmental parameters was launched by the European Environment Agency (EEA), Esri and Microsoft Corp. at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in Singapore believe cloud computing empowers them to make a greater strategic contribution to business.

The march to the cloud seems unstoppable. The one big barrier that is standing in the way is the collective fear for data security, which in recent months have been fueled by high-profile breaches involving big name providers.

Cloud computing is set to become mainstream in Asia-Pacific in 2012. By then, approximately 30 percent of APAC organizations will have adopted some form of cloud computing, according to Frost & Sullivan.

In the IT landscape of 2011, talk of the 'cloud' is in every horizon -- in government, in education and healthcare, in large enterprises and SMBs. It's the year for the great vendor push for the new platform. But what do early adopters have to say about the new IT service delivery model?