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By Mark Micallef, VP of Asia Pacific and Japan, Cloudera Source: Cloudera. Micallef. COVID-19 has brought with it an ongoing uncertainty and constant change. To effectively address disruptions and pivot to the new normal, organisations need to look towards enhancing their business resiliency.  As we prepare for the coming year, organisations not only have to maintain continuous business operations but also be agile to adapt to changes flexibly and at speed. Meeting those requirements calls for organisations to have an effective data strategy that enables them to make insight-driven decisions quickly. However, research commissioned by Cloudera has found that only 35% of executives from organisations globally think their current data strategy is sufficient. The top three barriers to maximising data for strategy gain are: • lack of analytical expertise, • data silos, and • organisational silos across the enterprise Given these challenges, how should organisati...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital intelligence and technology backbone of Alibaba Group, has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). The evaluation criteria include factors such as market responsiveness and track record, customer experience, market understanding, market strategy, business model and innovation. According to Gartner, “Leaders demonstrate the most support for a broad range of DBMS use cases, based on support for a wide range of data types and diversity of development models (such as multicloud, intercloud and hybrid). These vendors demonstrate consistent customer satisfaction and strong customer support...generally represent the lowest risk for customers in the areas for performance, scalability, reliability and support.” Alibaba Cloud’s database system was pivotal in supporting Alibaba Group’s recent 11.11 Global Shopping Festival . Cloud-native relational databases PolarDB , cloud-...

By Gibu Mathew, VP & GM, APAC, Zoho Corporation Advances in the cloud have changed the way we interact with the world. From how we pay our bills to how we communicate, to how we navigate the city streets, the cloud’s arrival has proven disruptive to the old ways of doing things. This is perhaps no more true than in the realm of business software, an industry that has seen seismic shifts in the last two decades, and is now witnessing rapid adoption due to the global crisis in the last six months. Expensive, exceedingly complicated software that once was the purview of the few is now available to the masses, courtesy of the cloud and attendant improvements in technology. These strides have resulted in the democratisation of business software, the changing of an once-scarce resource into something everyone can access and use. The shift to a more democratic, user-friendly, and affordable breed of business software has come about for a lot of reasons. Here are a few o...