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Red Hat has introduced a number of initiatives to support customers in acknowledgment of the challenging times that businesses are facing today. Hicks speaks during a virtual press briefing at the Red Hat Summit. In a blog post , Paul Cormier, President & CEO, Red Hat wrote, "...we’ve decided to put our focus on what customers need most from us right now: understanding what Red Hat is doing to help them, and technology innovations that meet them where they are, whether that need is to move faster or to weather the storm." Matt Hicks, Executive VP, Product and Technologies, Red Hat, noted that some customers are weathering the storm by focusing on improving efficiency and refining what they are doing, whereas others have been forced to scale. "We're looking at how to help customers and job seekers where we are today...how we can help people leverage what we have best," said Frank Feldmann, VP, APAC Office of Technology, Red Hat. "It reall...

- New technologies double down on vision to enable customers to ‘build anything, deploy everywhere,’ from the edge to hybrid and multicloud environments - OpenShift virtualisation and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes break down application barriers and extend control over distributed resources - Latest version of enterprise Kubernetes platform delivers enhancements to prime developers and operation teams for cloud-native operations Cormier (top) speaks during a virtual press briefing during the Red Hat Summit . Red Hat , the global provider of open source solutions, has announced new offerings to help organisations of all sizes and industries optimise, scale or simply protect IT operations in the face of shifting global dynamics. Red Hat wants to enable customers to build any application and deploy everywhere with the consistency and flexibility an open hybrid cloud foundation provides. Building on this vision, Red Hat’s new offerings are designed to imp...

Red Hat, the global provider of open source solutions, has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 , its enterprise Linux platform and the foundation for Red Hat’s hybrid cloud portfolio. To help better address the IT challenges presented by shifting global dynamics, Red Hat believes that the operating system should do more than “just work;” it should help stabilise operations today with the capacity to support and embrace innovation later. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 , built for the hybrid cloud era, is designed to offer these capabilities and more, extending beyond the reliability, stability and production-readiness for which the platform is known. The latest additions to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 platform help organisations recognise more value from existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions with: - New intelligent management and monitoring capabilities via updates to Red Hat Insights, Red Hat’s proactive operations and security risk management...

Adobe is supporting business continuity with special programmes and measures, including promotional rates and extended free trials, through SGTech’s online directory . The resources include technology that supports videoconferencing, virtual meetings and events, as well as other remote business services that can be deployed outside of the traditional office environment to make work from home smoother and more efficient for everyone. Simon Dale, MD for Adobe Southeast Asia said, “COVID-19 is changing everything about life and work as we know it. At Adobe we’re focused on how to best protect and support our families, employees, customers and communities in the face of this unfolding crisis. "We also recognise the critical role our technology plays in creative pursuits and business success. Creativity, document productivity, and digital businesses are too fundamental to Singapore’s society and economy to be curtailed because we are working remotely or unable to tr...

Every year, Adobe employees, from engineers and data scientists to UX designers and product managers, give the audience at Adobe Summit – Adobe’s annual digital experience conference – a sneak peek into what they have been working on. The 9th Adobe Sneaks has a new digital format this year, with some of the projects showing how brands and consumers can adjust to a world where virtual interactions are the new normal. Project Dually Noted Source: Adobe. Project Dually Noted uses augmented reality to match annotations to physical prints . Project Dually Noted aims to bridge the gap between physical and digital assets, augmented reality-style. For example, in the publishing industry, the final review of a book with the author is always done with the printed proof. Using the Adobe platform, an art director can add comments and questions to the digital version for the author to consider when reviewing the physical proof. An author can then use their mobile device to scan the ...

The new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E990, targeting midsized enterprises, rounds out the Hitachi Vantara NVMe portfolio and addresses key concerns of the market segment, said KC Phua, Core Storage and Data Protection Lead, Hitachi Vantara. Midsized enterprises, defined as those which have US$50 million to just under US$1 billion in revenues, face various data challenges, such as how to manage increasing amounts of data with data storage budgets that are not keeping apace, Phua said. With relatively few IT resources, such businesses also want solutions that area simple to manage, and further want speed and reliability, he added. “It is in their interest to have (services delivered) fast. They want it to be reliable as well. They struggle with budgets for IT and particularly for data storage. Data sizes are growing, data storage budgets are declining. They have to find a good way to deal with these challenges,” he said. The new Hitachi Vantara VSP E990, previously...