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by Geoff Soon, MD, South Asia at Snowflake Source: Snowflake. Soon. Thousands of organisations – governments, healthcare providers, and businesses – are all asking the same questions as the spread of the virus slows: Which social distancing measures should we relax, when, and at what cadence? How do we prevent future outbreaks and the hike in COVID-19 infection cases globally? If one does occur, what resources will a local area need to stop another outbreak? Data will answer these questions, and provoke more questions from these organisations, such as: How difficult will it be to acquire this data? Is it analytics-ready? How often is it updated? How much will it cost? Is there one place we can find this data and acquire new data sets as they emerge? Can we easily combine it with the data we own to reveal additional insights previously unavailable to us? The data providers, and data analytic service providers, continue to step up. They are making available myriad solutions and...

NVIDIA's latest virtual GPU (vGPU) technology allows enterprises to provide their employees with more power and flexibility through GPU-accelerated virtual machines from the data centre or cloud. The new vGPU software brings GPU virtualisation to a broad range of workloads — such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), high-performance graphics, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) — thanks to its support for the new NVIDIA A40 and NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs. The new release also supports the NVIDIA GPU Operator , a software framework that simplifies GPU deployment and management. NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS) software is a major component of the vGPU portfolio, designed to help users run graphics-intensive applications on virtual workstations. With NVIDIA A40 powering NVIDIA RTX vWS , professionals can achieve up to 60%* faster virtual workstation performance per user and 2x** faster rendering than the previous-generation RTX 6000 GPUs. NVIDIA A40 support with...

Tazapay , which provides a digital escrow system, is set to ramp up growth in February this year. Source: Tazapay. Shinghal. According to Tazapay, large organisations manage the complexities of international trade easily, but smaller businesses typically rely on trust to transact. When negotiating with a business for the first time, neither party has any assurance that the goods or the payment will arrive. Pre-COVID, a key part of establishing trust would have been to visit a potential business partner, seeing their operations and meeting the people. but with travel curtailed today, trade has been hobbled. Tazapay's escrow platform holds funds until goods have arrived, providing peace of mind to both parties in a deal. The company will focus primarily on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) looking at trade deals in the tens of thousands of dollars, particularly commoditised/bulk goods such as apparel, accessories, electronics, and homeware. Rahul Shinghal, CEO & ...

GBG, the global technology specialist in fraud and compliance management, identity verification and location data intelligence, has announced that seven customers using Instinct , GBG’s digital onboarding solution, have deployed the just-launched GBG Intelligence Center . They include a BUKU 4 * state-owned bank in Indonesia, as well as top tier banks, a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) company, consumer financial services firms, a building society, and an insurance firm in Australia. The GBG Intelligence Center is one of the core modules of GBG’s fraud engine, the Digital Risk Management and Intelligence platform. Intelligence Center capabilities help organisations better validate, verify and assess profiles, behaviours and intent of individuals and entities across branch, web, mobile and app, and transform raw data points to data intelligence, to enhance fraud detection and accuracy. Organisations that are already using GBG’s fraud engine can integrate the Intelligence Center to...

Pine Labs , a merchant commerce platform in Asia, has launched AllTap to accelerate digital payments adoption in India. The AllTap app enables entrepreneurs which have not digitalised to immediately start accepting digital payments on their NFC-enabled smartphone, without using additional hardware. Source: Pine Labs. AllTap allows anyone to accept digital payments on an NFC-enabled smartphone. AllTap 's target audience includes small merchants, home entrepreneurs, street vendors, hawkers, cab drivers, and others who are not ready to invest in a traditional point-of-sale (PoS) terminal to accept digital payments. According to Pine Labs, AllTap will allow users to accept contactless digital payment, accept digital payments during doorstep deliveries, and reduce checkout times. AllTap also allows transactions to be converted into pay-later equated monthly instalments (EMIs) to increase sales. B. Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs said that Pine Labs AllTap has tremendous potential to...