APAC CIOOutlook

Advertise

with us

  • Technologies
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Big Data
      • Blockchain
      • Cloud
      • Digital Transformation
      • Internet of Things
      • Low Code No Code
      • MarTech
      • Mobile Application
      • Security
      • Software Testing
      • Wireless
  • Industries
      • E-Commerce
      • Education
      • Logistics
      • Retail
      • Supply Chain
      • Travel and Hospitality
  • Platforms
      • Microsoft
      • Salesforce
      • SAP
  • Solutions
      • Business Intelligence
      • Cognitive
      • Contact Center
      • CRM
      • Cyber Security
      • Data Center
      • Gamification
      • Procurement
      • Smart City
      • Workflow
  • Home
  • CXO Insights
  • CIO Views
  • Vendors
  • News
  • Conferences
  • Whitepapers
  • Newsletter
  • Awards
Apac
  • Artificial Intelligence

    Big Data

    Blockchain

    Cloud

    Digital Transformation

    Internet of Things

    Low Code No Code

    MarTech

    Mobile Application

    Security

    Software Testing

    Wireless

  • E-Commerce

    Education

    Logistics

    Retail

    Supply Chain

    Travel and Hospitality

  • Microsoft

    Salesforce

    SAP

  • Business Intelligence

    Cognitive

    Contact Center

    CRM

    Cyber Security

    Data Center

    Gamification

    Procurement

    Smart City

    Workflow

Menu
    • Cloud
    • Cyber Security
    • Hotel Management
    • Workflow
    • E-Commerce
    • Business Intelligence
    • MORE
    #

    Apac CIOOutlook Weekly Brief

    ×

    Be first to read the latest tech news, Industry Leader's Insights, and CIO interviews of medium and large enterprises exclusively from Apac CIOOutlook

    Subscribe

    loading

    THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBING

    • Home
    • Cloud
    Editor's Pick (1 - 4 of 8)
    left
    Sustainable Future through Innovative Technology Solutions

    Faisal Parvez, Director, BT Business CIO

    Brokering the Cloud Services

    Eric Boyette, Secretary & State CIO, Information Technology

    Defining a Cloud Strategy: A Higher Education Paradigm

    Russell M. Kaurloto, VP and CIO, Clemson University

    The Role of CIO in the Cloud-First World

    Yvonne Wassenaar, CIO, New Relic, Inc

    Epsilon Telecommunications: Bringing Agility in Business with Cloud

    CEO

    Prime Focus Technologies : Media ERP To Drive Creative Enablement And Realize New Monetization Oppor

    Founder and CEO, Prime Focus

    Lacima: Global Commodity Energy Portfolio Risk Analytics

    Co-founder, Lacima

    PeopleStreme: Providing Fully Integrated Human Capital Management (HCM) Solutions

    CEO, PeopleStreme

    right

    Cloud or On-Premise? When Would The Question End?

    Kevin Soh, CIO and Director, e-Strategies, BH Global Corporation

    Tweet
    content-image

    Kevin Soh, CIO and Director, e-Strategies, BH Global Corporation

    The same old question of “Cloud or On-Premise?” has been asked countless times in the industry. Correspondingly, massive number of opinions has also been shared in papers and conferences. Collectively, there seems to be a “mega-trend” or “mega-advocation” that cloud is certainly the way to go. Most of the time such claim sounds merely like a fashion statement. It is at best a seemingly sensible advice promoted by a cloud service provider, and at worst, a misconception that business owners may just be “mis-educated” and misled.

    In my opinion, the answer is simply “it depends on the use case”, or the nature of the business involved. There is no blanket framework that fits all businesses. With that, I would like to share the thought via a few simple considerations as follows.

    “Let’s focus on our core business and let the professional handle the IT”

    On the surface, this common statement sounds perfectly sensible. On deeper considerations, it might be too simplistic. Firstly, letting professional handle IT does not necessarily mean cloudification. Secondly, not all systems are the best candidates for migrating to the cloud. Some of which include systems that work on non-standard, proprietary platforms, applications or processes that are subject to statutory or group policies to be on-premise, systems that are latency sensitive, enterprises which are weak in network connectivity due to location or competency.

    “Our applications are now more secured having them managed by the professionals”

    I am not sure when would “cloud security” stop being an oxymoron, judging from the ongoing high profile compromised incidents in especially strongly branded cloud platforms and services.

    Yes, the professionals certainly have much deeper security know-hows, however, to have the belief that they could certainly offer better security than on-premise may not be always right. I am not advocating that on-premise is more secured, but more of addressing the misconception that the cloud service platform is always more secured than the in-house, on-premise implementation. At the end of the day, the security posture still depends very much on the fundamental of now People, Process and Technology are managed and operationalized.

    “We will achieve high availability riding on the resilient framework of the professionals”

    Availability of services depends not just on the backend platform of cloud services. It too depends on the conduits and many other factors that make service accessibility possible. Unfortunately, not all these factors are directly under the control of the service providers. When I was evaluating ERP platforms for our group company a couple of years ago, a well-known cloud based ERP service provider cited that it has more than three DR sites in the U.S. Unfortunately, we are residing in Asia, and the availability depends so much on the cross continent connectivity. If we recall the 2018 sub-marine cable failure, even internet surfing was not possible in Asia during the outage. When the concern was raised, the vendor was brushing such risk aside, and explain matter-of-factly that when such outage happens, all else will be down anyway. Why such worry? They did not get our business eventually no just due to the unforthcoming attitude, but the fact that if our cloud-based ERP is down due to cross-continent connectivity, as CIO is may not even be able to answer to my board why the next doors’ ERP are still running? I reckon that no CIO would like to be put in such light.

    “Let the professionals handle our security”

    Yes, that is a no-brainer statement that can’t be more right. Only thing is I am not sure when would “cloud security” cease to be an oxymoron. If we look around, the landscape is not short of serious breaches and incidents surrounding high profile cloud service providers. The results simply tell it all.

    In summary, I am not debunking the virtue and benefit of cloud based services. My view is that a thorough gap-fit analysis needs to be done prior to any decision to migrate to cloud. The analysis should consider the People (culture), Process (compliances) and Technology (readiness) aspects of the systems involved. Cloudification does not offer us a silver bullet to all ITOps and SecOps issues. Just like any tools, it would bring tremendous benefits only after a thorough due diligence has been done, and a good management structure is in place to oversight the migration and ongoing operations after which.

    Weekly Brief

    loading
    Cloud Based Business Management Software of the Year - 2025
    ON THE DECK

    I agree We use cookies on this website to enhance your user experience. By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent for us to set cookies. More info

    Copyright © 2025 APAC CIOOutlook. All rights reserved. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy and Anti Spam Policy 

    Home |  CXO Insights |   Whitepapers |   Subscribe |   Conferences |   Sitemaps |   About us |   Advertise with us |   Editorial Policy |   Feedback Policy |  

    follow on linkedinfollow on twitter follow on rss
    This content is copyright protected

    However, if you would like to share the information in this article, you may use the link below:

    https://cloud.apacciooutlook.com/ciospeaks/cloud-or-onpremise-when-would-the-question-end-nwid-5363.html?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=apacciooutlook_topslider