TechTouch Asia

by Heng Kwee Tong, VP – Engineering & Customer Solutions, SPTel The role of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has changed significantly to a more strategic role within the enterprise. CTOs must now work closely with their CEOs to provide sustainable profits and value to the organisation. This is particularly evident with COVID-19 affecting organisations across all sectors and as technology is increasingly seen as a game-changing option to ensure business continuity. CTOs now have an opportunity to lead from a business front and ultimately make the right choice of technology, particularly in the area of networking, to help their organisation weather the storm of the global recession and get set for renewed growth. The “new normal” requires a change in networking, as digital adoption has become paramount. Studies such as those from McKinsey have showed that the world has covered five years of progress in terms of digital adoption in a mere eight weeks since the onset of COV...

by Mike Campfield, VP, GM International and Global Security Programs at ExtraHop Due to lockdowns, companies have implemented remote work arrangements leaving many offices empty for months. As organisations wait for onsite and office-based activities to resume, offices have been largely dormant, but this does not mean businesses are at all quiet. In March, ExtraHop analysed four petabytes of data from more than 15 million devices and workloads across cloud, data centre and remote site deployments. This data provides insights into how office networks have changed under the quarantine. With remote and hybrid work arrangements becoming a vital part of business continuity strategies, these insights offer businesses valuable direction on how to handle future disruptions. What the numbers are telling us The most obvious insight that can be drawn from Extrahop's data is the overall decline in the use of devices, which confirms the mass migration of employees toward remote working. ...

• New VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu innovations and enablement initiatives set to fast-track enterprise transformation and strengthen region’s future-readiness • DBS, Telekom Malaysia showcase best practices to drive Southeast Asia towards a digital-first future VMware, the enterprise software provider, has announced new offerings to help customers further accelerate their app and infrastructure modernisation initiatives. V Mware vSphere 7 Update 1, VMware vSAN 7 Update 1 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 now help streamline customer adoption of Kubernetes and support stateful applications with new developer-ready capabilities while enhancing scalability and operations. Source: VMware. How the different Tanzu editions stack up. The introduction of VMware Tanzu editions–each of which packages capabilities of the Tanzu portfolio into a solution that directly addresses a single, common customer challenge – along with skills training and development initiatives will further ena...

Source: RADX. A virtual booth. RADX, a software development and technology services firm, has concluded its first licensed 3D virtual reality (VR) conference using its own RADX VR platform. The event, Smart ConnecTech Asia 2020 , which was held on 9 and 10 September 2020, drawing nearly 150 attendees from the Asia Pacific region to network with each other while witnessing new product launches through a VR environment. Many participants the seamless user experience and engagement capabilities, and were happy with eliminating travel costs and reducing the time needed to reach to important stakeholders. Rob Chong, Founder and CEO of RADX, said that the success of Smart ConnecTech Asia 2020 using the RADX VR platform proves that the technology can help event organisers overcome difficulties in organising an event. "While the global events and exhibition industry has taken a hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbated by the closure of borders and restrictions in travelling, ...

Source: NVIDIA. Marbles at night, displayed by NVIDIA Omniverse . Designers, architects and other creators will soon be able to collaborate in real time, whether on premises or remotely, with the NVIDIA Omniverse platform. NVIDIA announced that Omniverse has entered open beta, with availability for download this fall (roughly Q3/Q420). Bringing together NVIDIA breakthroughs in graphics, simulation and artificial intelligence (AI), Omniverse is the world’s first NVIDIA RTX-based* 3D simulation and collaboration platform. It fuses the physical and virtual worlds to simulate reality in real time and with photorealistic detail. Using the platform, remote teams can collaborate simultaneously on 3D graphics-heavy projects – such as architects iterating on 3D building design, animators revising 3D scenes, and engineers collaborating on autonomous vehicles – as readily as they would jointly edit a 2D document online. Richard Kerris, GM, Media and Entertainment, NVIDIA, called Omniv...

At the Fuji Xerox Innovation Re:Mix Forum – Work Reimagined , industry leaders and analysts shared perspectives on how to pivot into the ‘next’ normal. Organised by Fuji Xerox Singapore, a provider in document and communications solutions, the 3rd edition of its flagship event, Innovation Re:Mix Forum Work Reimagined 2020 is aligned with Fuji Xerox Singapore’s corporate practice of Genko-Itchi , a Japanese concept of walking the talk, and explored what businesses face in their accelerated digital transformation journeys to ensure business continuity in the current climate. New Fuji Xerox Singapore CEO Koh Ching Hong, who assumed his role during the pandemic, said: “As Fuji Xerox innovate within to meet the new demands in the marketplace, we are also enabling our customers with new ideas in transforming how their processes work in new digital world, how their distributed workforce collaborate more effectively, and how they are able to reconnect and re-engage their ...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has seen the demand for its database family of products double year-over-year. The increase was fuelled by the growing industrial need to move business operations online given the lasting impact of COVID-19. Erwin Foo, Group CTO of PrestoMall said: "As one of the leading e-commerce players in Malaysia, we are constantly looking to adopt future proof and affordable solutions to enhance our platform and provide more unique and remarkable experience for our customer. Due to the complexity of the e-commerce platforms, we need a reliable, robust and scalable database that can enable the growth of our dynamic business without worrying too much about the infrastructure and support needed." To support customers’ digital transformation journeys, the Alibaba Cloud database team launched a series of new products and feature upgrades at...

VMware has unveiled Virtual Cloud Network innovations that help will customers create a network that better supports current and future business initiatives. With advancements across the VMware networking and security portfolio, customers will be able to more effectively manage the rapid shift to remote work, deliver traditional and modern applications faster and more securely, and reduce the cost and complexity of connecting and protecting the distributed enterprise. According to VMware, businesses today, and the IT and application development teams supporting them, are racing to adapt to a new normal. Application architectures are more modern and cloud-native; on-premises data centres are extending to include multicloud and edge compute environments; and the work environment is no longer a single campus or branch, but rather anywhere an employee can connect to the Internet. This new reality introduces complexity that the network that has served us for the past 20 years cannot add...