TechTouch Asia

By Chua Chee Pin, Area VP, ASEAN, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Commvault It has been two years since our lives have been turned upside down by the global pandemic. In a way, it has brought about tremendous change in a very short time. The most obvious is how we quickly transitioned to digitalisation, and in the business environment, we have embraced a highly agile digital workforce. Many traditionally brick-and-mortar businesses, including B2B businesses, have also gone online fully or partly to continue to engage with their customers and partners. Data, as expected, has proven to be a lifeline with the increased digitalisation. IDC projected that the amount of data to be created and collected by 2025 will be at a whopping 175 zettabytes*. While businesses are today better positioned to pivot agilely and to embracing digitalisation in response to disruptions, many are still grappling with a sound strategy against the greater exposure to cybersecurity risks that going digital also brings. ...

By Adrian Comley, Senior Manager of Managed Network Services, BT Source: BT. Comley. Application experience defines your organisation and how you’re viewed in your landscape of competitors. If you don’t provide rich content and a network that’s capable of giving applications all the support they need to deliver a great experience, then your customers are likely to look elsewhere. It’s a point of judgment both internally and externally, so ensuring your applications perform consistently - especially in our new hybrid working world - must be a priority. Research conducted by Riverbed | Aternity in 2021 has shown that 95% of organisations surveyed still face visibility and monitoring challenges in their current IT environment. Adding to that, 32% of the respondents also blame the lack of end-to-end visibility for their poor network and application performance. So, isn’t it time organisations start asking themselves, ‘what impact is lack of visibility into performance having on my bu...