TechTouch Asia

Enterprise data management company Rubrik is ramping up in Asia. The company offers software-based platform that delivers backup, instant recovery, archival, search, analytics, compliance, and copy data management for data centres and clouds. "Multicloud (is what) companies are struggling with. We have to get the cloud right. It's what the company is built around," Kamal Brar, newly-appointed VP, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) for Rubrik said. He elaborated that the company's value proposition is its API-based policy-driven platform built with next-generation operating architecture in mind. The cloud-agnostic and application-agnostic platform provides data recovery, governance, compliance, and cloud mobility capabilities in a multicloud world. The technology can be used to trigger backups automatically based on weather information, for example. "We've grown as a company in the last three years. We've evolved from purely protecting customers to now let...

by Ben Chan, Chairman, the WOLOT Foundation . Utilised in business decision-making and data modelling, data is the key raw material for the new digital economy. It can be used to continually improve user experiences, and help to optimise and create more smart applications. There are key issues surrounding its usage, however. The man in the street may be reluctant to share too many insights about his behaviour or preferences. He doesn't know how it's going to be used, and even if he does give permission for data-sharing, there's always the risk that those permissions are ignored or tampered with. Last but not least, there is nothing in it for him to actually share his data. Privacy protection and data ownership have long been the core unresolved issues for data assetisation. These issues need to be resolved in order to achieve mainstream adoption of big data. To realise true data assetisation, we​​ require Blockchain technology.    Firstly, it promote...