TechTouch Asia

By Thomas Kunnumpurath, VP, Systems Engineering, Solace Concept art generated by dream by WOMBO. Two data-driven technologies at the macro level will drive change over the next 12 months and beyond. They will enable every business to make greater use of their data, improve business efficiency and serve their end customers better and faster than ever before. Applied observability Observability has grown up, breaking out from its infant stages as a tech-focused term to something that organisations realise will provide the key to keeping track of key data events in an increasingly decoupled business world spanning systems architecture to the business operations it supports. Moving forward, we now have the next level, "applied observability", recognised by Gartner as a key 2023 strategic tech trend at its most recent Orlando Symposium . Applied observability enables organisations to exploit their data artifacts for competitive advantage. That means being able to ensure that...

By David Lenz, VP, Asia Pacific, Arcserve 2023 could be the year we see the first major software-as-a-service (SaaS) outage. The message will become apparent very quickly that data backup and recovery must be front and centre.  Companies across Asia Pacific (APAC) are increasingly consuming software as a service rather than running their own IT infrastructure on premises. However, many still mistakenly believe that data protection is the responsibility of their cloud provider and assume that the provider will handle all aspects of data protection, including backing up and recovering the data. If a service like Microsoft 365 suffers a major outage, organisations need to know that while their service is guaranteed, the organisation’s data safety is not. The responsibility lies solely on the organisation. While cloud providers do take steps to protect their customers' data, it is ultimately the customer's responsibility to ensure that their data is backed up, secure, and recoverab...

The first NVIDIA Studio laptops powered by GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs are now available, starting with systems from MSI and Razer. Featuring GeForce RTX 4090 and 4080 laptop GPUs, the new laptops use the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture and 5th generation Max-Q technologies to boost performance and efficiency. Backed by the NVIDIA Studio platform, these laptops give creators exclusive access tools and apps — including NVIDIA Omniverse, Canvas and Broadcast — and deliver advanced visuals with full ray tracing and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.