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The Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) unveiled Lenovo TruScale High Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS), delivering the power of supercomputing to organisations of all sizes through a cloud-like experience. The new high performance computing (HPC) as-a-service (aaS) offering expands Lenovo’s everything as-a-service TruScale portfolio and enables HPC customers to access greater supercomputing resources. Cloud-based HPC is the fastest growing segment of high-performance computing, and on-demand resource consumption provides more efficient and scalable computing resources to meet workload requirements, Lenovo said. The company pointed out that the typical HPC cluster runs at nearly full capacity, with rapidly increasing demands for compute and storage cycles and little room for additional workloads. Lenovo TruScale HPCaaS delivers additional capacity as needed. The technology provides rack-level resources that are critical to drive innovation across multiple sectors, inc...

Space DC , a Singapore-based data centre provider, is working with JLL, a global real estate services firm, to build a secure and resilient data centre called MNL1 in Cainta, Greater Manila. The green data centre will be fully powered with renewable energy - wind, geothermal - and is slated to open in 2022. At 43,000m 2 , MNL1 will be the largest hyperscale data centre campus in the Philippines, and will deliver 72 MW of critical power. With a power usage effectiveness (PUE) score of 1.3, MNL1 will also lead in terms of energy efficiency and design. The closer the PUE is to 1.0, the more energy-efficient the facility. Space DC CEO Darren Hawkins said, “The Philippines ranks second in terms of data centre growth in Southeast Asia. With only 47 MW of available capacity in the country it is a dramatically underserved market. We are excited to be a first-mover in a new market where we see our customers are investing heavily in.” “Space DC is in the right place at the right time to take a...

by Nick Chia, Consultant at Russell Reynolds Associates Today, technology companies and sector verticals are converging rapidly. Retailers are now e-commerce platforms, traditional automotive companies are experimenting with autonomous vehicles and telematics software, primarily holding a digital bank account is no longer considered quirky, and physicians are a mere Zoom call away. Initially focusing their efforts on innovation and customer, organisations are now beginning to remove the divide between their digital programmes and traditional IT delivery systems by consolidating them into a single technology operating model*. In 2018, 18% of technology leaders said their companies had either converted their digital and IT teams to a single operating model or developed a fully digital model; by 2020, this number had almost doubled*. However, organisations are also realising that this is not enough. Simply creating a single technology operating model does not necessarily build the ri...

Source: SGTech. Minister Teo (centre) at the TechBlazer Awards 2021 . Fourteen organisations have been recognised as Singapore’s most innovative at the Techblazer Awards 2021 , jointly organised by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and SGTech. Now in its fourth year, the Techblazer Awards is the nation’s highest accolade for tech innovation. The 2021 awards saw more than 440 nominations, up from 403 submissions in 2020*. Ten organisations and four student teams emerged as winners in three categories – Most Promising Innovation, Best Adoption and Student Techblazer. Following strong interest in 2020, a new non-governmental organisation (NGO) subcategory for Best Adoption was added to recognise the digital transformation efforts of local NGOs, with Ren Ci Hospital emerging as the inaugural winner. The winners leveraged frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet-of-Things (IoT), advanced manufacturing and virtual reality (VR). Healthtech compa...