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Hitachi Vantara , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has announced a new storage and infrastructure foundation with a new scale-out, scale-up architecture for any workload at any scale. People, processes and infrastructure have had to transform to cater to changing norms, KC Phua, Director Technical Experts APAC, Data Management & Protection, Global Field and Industry Solutions, Hitachi Vantara said. "Before, infrastructure peak times were in the day. Now it is all the time," he said. "The infrastructure needs to match up to the demands of the business. That's what the whole digital transformation journey is about." The new normal for infrastructure includes: Capacity, which is now verging into petabyte territory. Companies are juggling high volumes of data while handling transactions without lagging. "The infrastructure must be able to scale from terabytes to petabytes," he said. Performance, driven by stringent service l...

- The more security is integrated into the software delivery lifecycle, the more delivery teams see security as a shared responsibility. - The ability to remediate critical security vulnerabilities within one day is lowest for Singapore (13%). - There is huge potential for Asia to finetune its security practices and/or processes around containers. Source: Puppet. Cover for the State of DevOps Report 2019 . Organisations in Asia Pacific and Japan may know that poor security practices are costly, but many are only focusing on remediation after a breach occurs. Puppet , which automates the delivery and operation of software that powers everything around us, shared this finding from the 2019 State of DevOps Report among others on Asia. This year’s report, written by Puppet, CircleCI and Splunk, reveals the importance of DevOps culture in driving positive security outcomes and posture. The 2019 State of DevOps Report highlighted patterns and practices that help organisatio...

One Identity , an identity management provider, has been named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Governance and Administration* (IGA) for the second consecutive year . After an evaluation process which included feedback from customers, Gartner recognised One Identity as a Leader for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. For the report, Gartner experts evaluated One Identity’s flagship IGA solution, Identity Manager. In addition to Identity Manager, Gartner evaluated One Identity Starling, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform which provides SaaS-delivered cloud application provisioning and identity analytics. One Identity Starling integrates with Identity Manager, enhancing and extending the overall solution. “As organisations continue to digitally transform by way of the cloud and SaaS-based applications, their ability to manage the identities and the access to those applications those identities control becomes increasingly challenging – and incr...

By Alvin Rodrigues, Senior Director and Security Strategist, Forcepoint Asia Pacific Data corruption, denial of service attacks, data exfiltration, malware infection and insider threats – what do these have in common? Answer: they were the top security incidents faced by Singapore-based organisations in the last 12 months, according to a recent Forcepoint-Frost & Sullivan Risk and Cybersecurity survey based on responses from 100 business and IT decision makers in the republic. They are also the incidents that more firms here would have sidestepped if they had better understanding of human – both hacker and user – behaviour. In fact, many sophisticated cyberattacks today succeed because organisations have not considered human behaviour – for instance, intended malice or inadvertent human errors – when trying to safeguard their critical data and users. Firms need to better understand the context that gives rise to malicious, or inadvertent but nonetheless risky, behaviour. As...