This move hopes to support Contino’s presence as “one of the most experienced and capable transformation consultancies in the region”, boasting some of the “brightest minds” within DevOps and the cloud.

The new capabilities, skills and mutual customer opportunities arising from this partnership hopes for considerable expansion opportunities in the APAC region, with all three of the largest banks in Australia now coming under Contino as a result.

Craig Howe, Nebulr founder and CEO, stated: “Contino’s global footprint and considerable IP and experience set them apart in the world of DevOps.

“I founded Nebulr with a vision of creating an amazing engineering culture that delivers first-class work and I see this as a fantastic opportunity for us to push the boundaries of this vision yet further.”

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The report, carried out by the multinational technology company, found cloud operators are delivering a growing variety of services to businesses and consumers alike because of its ability to scale efficiently and quickly.

Cloud adoption is in overdrive in the Asia Pacific and will continue to gain traction, according to the report. From now to 2020, the region is set to outpace the rest of world with a 31.6% compound annual growth rate in cloud data centres.

Across the Asia Pacific region, smartphones are also becoming a popular tool for many people, making up a quarter of the total internet traffic.

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The world’s leading provider of open source solutions helps customers integrate people, methodology, and technology to catalyse innovation and solve business challenges in an accelerated fashion.

IT teams work with Red Hat consultants, engineers and subject matter experts to modernise existing applications or create new ones through DevOps and open-sources.

According to Markets Insider, core features of an Open Innovation Labs include:

• Solve legacy problems or entirely new challenges: Customers can take advantage of mentoring and technology to help their organization design and develop solutions to modernize legacy applications or take on entirely new challenges developing applications, architectures, and features for mobile, cloud, microservices, and more.
• Work on real business problems from day one: Using Red Hat’s push button infrastructure and automated development environments, customers can quickly start development, resulting in quicker time to value and measurable outcomes.
• Learn to work the open source way: Customers can collaborate with Red Hat experts and with the open source community on upstream projects using an agile-based methodology, open source tools, and best practices for application development.
• Innovate anywhere: With a more secure cloud environment, any authorised team members can work together from anywhere at any time. Development can happen at customer’s site, in an Open Innovation Labs facility, or virtually.

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, senior vice president and general manage at Red Hat Asia Pacific, said to Markets Insider: “Businesses across Asia Pacific are innovating, while many companies are using digital technologies to create greater value and a better customer experience.

“The vision for Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is to introduce Red Hat’s unique DNA and the open source way of working to our customers in a residency-style, virtual or pop-up setting.”

Teams can also learn how to adopt agile development methodologies, DevOps practices, and get immediate and direct experience with the open principles and open culture that underlie many open source communities.

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While complying with local regulations, Cloud 28+ has 20,000 cloud services offered by over 570 cloud partners, and a range of services available for large companies and small and medium sized businesses looking to move to a cloud platform.

HPE director service provider for Japan and Asia-Pacific, Pradeep Khemani, said the wide selection frees customers from having to search for needed services whilst supplying choice.

Khemani said in a press briefing: “For our partners, Cloud28+ drives down costs, increasing their business opportunities. It will create new leads, building new business alliances and offerings. Overall, it will expand their market visibility.”

Cloud28+ is currently available in Japanese, Korean and English.

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According to Computer Weekly, there will be roughly 753 million new mobile phone subscribers worldwide.

GSMA expect that by the end of the decade, China will account for 21% (155 million) of those subscribers, and India will account for 27% (206 million).

“Led by India and China, Asia’s mobile industry will be the main engine of global subscriber growth for the remainder of the decade, connecting almost half a billion new customers across the region by 2020,” said Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA.

“We are also seeing a dramatic shift to mobile broadband networks, particularly 4G, which is providing a platform for a rich range of innovative new services across both developed and emerging markets in the region. Meanwhile, advanced operators in Asia are set to become among the first in the world to launch commercial 5G networks before the end of the decade,” he added.

GSMA also noted that there is going to be a 3.1 billion increase in mobile subscribers from Asia-Pacific (APAC), accounting for around 66% of global growth to 75% by 2020.

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