TechTouch Asia

By Andrew Seow, Regional GM for Southeast Asia and Greater China, Rimini Street Hybrid IT environments have become the norm today as CIOs make strategic investments that move many applications, infrastructure, and systems to the cloud while retaining others on-premise. IDC predicted that over 90% of Asia Pacific enterprises will have a hybrid IT infrastructure by 2021. This environment can provide a strong foundation for driving desirable business outcomes by enabling companies to extract more value from existing assets. Operating and maintaining a hybrid IT environment successfully can be impacted by how well IT departments manage the adoption of additional IT vendors. As enterprises adopt new technologies from multiple vendors, the IT architecture can become more complicated and vulnerable to security issues - despite being designed for interoperability. Each additional vendor complicates that environment further and increases the potential for conflict from variations in testi...

Lumen Technologies has partnered J-Stream to deliver secure, scalable and high-performing content delivery network (CDN) services to customers in Japan. The collaboration allows both companies to better meet the requirements of major corporations, broadcasters, as well as video game and over-the-top (OTT) operators in the country that require large-scale, global distribution of content. The Asia Pacific CDN market is seeing the number of Internet subscribers increase rapidly and consumption of content over smartphones and other portable devices. The CDN market in Asia Pacific and Japan is projected to record the highest growth rate in 2020, increasing 31.7% year over year, according to IDC*. To support this demand, Lumen recently doubled its CDN footprint in key APAC markets, strengthening its capacity in 11 major cities across the region. In Japan, local points of presence in Osaka and Tokyo promote high-performance delivery of video and web applications, while an in-country netwo...