E-WORLD: The silver lining.

from BUSINESS LINE, August 31, 2009 Recently in Singapore Balu Doraisamy is the Senior Vice-President and Managing Director (Asia-Pacific & Japan) of technology multi- major Hewlett-Packard. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving overall revenue and profitability in this region and also leads the APJ Technology Solutions Group (TSG) which encompasses enterprise storage and systems, software.

In a recent interview, Doraiswamy tells eWorld why he is bullish on emerging business models that enable 'everything as a service'. Excerpts: HP is bullish on everything as a service, right from the infrastructure level, to the platform, to software as a service and the services themselves. However, with cloud computing, security of the end-users' data has been a major concern. How does HP work around this bottleneck? Through a wide range of cloud services, customers can manage technology-related services from multiple sources, including in- house, hosted/outsourced, and the …