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Huawei is investing further in Singapore with HUAWEI CLOUD and a Cloud & AI Innovation Lab. Source: Huawei. HUAWEI CLOUD was launched in Singapore at HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 . Three flagship cloud services were released at HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 : ▶ ECS C6, the industry's first elastic cloud services using servers based on the Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processor. Cascade Lake performs 15% better than the industry average and can handle 10 million network packets per second (PPS). ▶ Object Storage Service (OBS), which uses unique HUAWEI CLOUD algorithms to achieve the highest performance in the industry. Single-stream bandwidth reaches 2.4 Gbps, one bucket - the unit used for storage - supports billions of objects, and data reliability reaches 99.99%, meeting long-term storage requirements for massive volumes of data. ▶ The new high-performance distributed Taurus database has seven times the performance of native MySQL databases. This solution provides t...

Source: Fujitsu. Dynamic risk hotspot predictions. Fujitsu has announced the results of a field trial conducted with the assistance of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) in analysing marine traffic risks in the Singapore Straits. Fujitsu has demonstrated the usefulness of a novel ship collision risk prediction technology that leverages the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in predicting near misses between vessels. Using AI technology Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, this solution can detect ship collision risks and predict areas where collision risks are concentrated as dynamic risk hotspots. This technology has the potential to be deployed in a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) system* to assist maritime traffic controllers to manage marine traffic proactively with the aim of improving the safety of navigation. Fujitsu aims to deliver services incorporating this technology for maritime traffic controllers a...

Source: Tableau. Minister Maliki addresses the audience. Guest-of-honour and keynote speaker Singapore Senior Minister of State for Defence & Foreign Affairs Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman, discussed the use of data in the public service, as well as digital defence in a digital age at Tableau Software’s 5 th annual Public Sector Day .  In his speech the minister addressed the inter-connectedness brought about by digital technology, which has made us more vulnerable to cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns and fake news. He outlined examples of the economic damage, as well as the social and political disruption, that such scourges have had internationally and domestically, and called on all Singaporeans to recognise their role as the first line of defence against threats.  According to Minister Maliki, the government is building up data science and analytics capabilities. "At the launch of the Digital Government Blueprint last year, we committed to train...

Tata Sky , the Indian content distribution platform, now offers personalised content recommendations on the Tata Sky mobile app and on Watch.tatasky.com . The mobile app and watch.tatasky.com give subscribers access to 400+ live channels and over 5,000 TV and movie titles on their laptops and iOS/Android mobile devices. Tata Sky chose ThinkAnalytics to enable users to find content easily online and on mobile devices, boosting overall viewer engagement. The experience is personalised through the use of ThinkAnalytics’ artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies and based on the subscriber’s previous viewing behaviour. Initially in English, the service has planned support for additional languages in the future. The ThinkAnalytics recommendation engine now helps subscribers discover content based on the genres, language and even cast preferences based on his or her last visit to the platform. Also important to Tata Sky was ThinkAnalytics’ proven ability to scale ...