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The demand for flexible, cost-effective, and efficient live content production solutions has never been greater, according to Telestream. Traditional production methods rely on heavy physical infrastructure, which leads to relatively inflexible operations and high costs. The shift towards remote work and decentralised production has emphasised the need for tools that can handle a diverse range of media formats and enable real-time quality control (QC) and collaboration from any location, the company said. Telestream is set to address these challenges head-on with the introduction of Live Capture as a Service, GLIM as a Service , and the enhanced Live Play 2.0 at the upcoming NAB Show in the US. Source: Telestream. A screen capture of Live Capture as a Service in action. Telestream's Live Capture as a Service leverages cloud technology to offer unmatched flexibility and cost efficiency, enabling media companies to dynamically scale operations and reduce overhead. “ Live Captu...

Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation provider, has found that companies are fraught with uncontrolled and wasteful cloud spend, and cost remediation tactics are introduced too late or without a full picture of the environment. An independent study* conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Boomi in December 2023 discovered that 87% of APAC companies exceeded their set cloud budgets over the past two years, with 69% of these companies foreseeing their cloud budgets to exceed this fiscal year. Although the study shows APAC business leaders prioritising cloud cost monitoring and optimisation (CCMO) tactics earlier in the cloud development process (62%), most companies lack proactive strategies at the earlier architecture level, Boomi said. Just 5% of APAC decision makers report their cloud cost remediation strategies are as proactive as possible, and only four in 10 say they contain costs at the solution architecture stage. While APAC organisations are aware th...

Mydin Mohamed Holdings (MYDIN) has successfully introduced Zebra Technologies’ warehouse mobility solution (WMS) at its distribution centre at Seremban, Malaysia to support its fast-growing e-commerce business. As the largest halal home-grown hypermarket retail chain in Malaysia with 68 branches nationwide, MYDIN is determined to deliver its services and better cater to a growing online customer base. “Previously, our e-commerce business could only support about 1,500 daily orders. Using Zebra’s warehouse mobility solutions, we now complete more than 10,000 orders daily,” said Malik Bin Murad Ali, Director of IT, HR, Digital and Loss Prevention & Security, MYDIN. “We constantly look for ways to gain better operational productivity to improve our customer experience. This is why we are equipping our frontline staff with more advanced technology tools to drive better results.” MYDIN selected Zebra’s lightweight, ergonomically-designed TC21 mobile computers, which offer essential...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has expanded AIOps network management capabilities for HPE Aruba Networking Central , HPE’s cloud- native network management solution, hosted on the HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform , through integrating multiple generative AI (gen AI) large language models (LLMs) within it. Unlike other gen AI networking approaches that simply send API calls to public LLMs, HPE Aruba Networking Central ’s new self-contained set of LLM models was designed with pre- processing and guardrails to improve user experience and operational efficiency, with a focus on search response times, accuracy, and data privacy. With one of the largest data lakes in the industry, HPE Aruba Networking has collected telemetry from nearly 4 million network- managed devices and more than 1 billion unique customer endpoints, which power HPE Aruba Networking Central ’s machine learning models for predictive analytics and recommendations. The new gen AI LLM functionality will be incorporated int...

While we acknowledge that preventing data loss and data theft is important, World Backup Day , March 31, is a concrete reminder of the need to back up and better protect your data.  The consequences to poor data protection are worse than ever. Nathan Hall, VP of Asia Pacific & Japan at Pure Storage, pointed out that new regulatory standards mandate swift restoration of services in critical industries.  "For instance, the Monetary Authority of Singapore requires banks to restore critical systems and services within four hours following an outage. This is difficult to achieve with legacy data storage solutions, which were never designed with fast recovery in mind. Apart from downtime, implementing advanced data protection capabilities to prevent data loss caused by ransomware attacks continues to be a challenge across all industries, resulting in both financial and reputational damage," he said. According to Sophos, ransomware groups are specifically targeting companies’ b...

Adyen , the global financial technology platform, has been included in The Forrester Wave Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2024 report.  The company received the highest possible score for six criteria, including vision, innovation, payment performance optimisation, omnichannel payments, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, devices, and partnerships, and payment data enrichment. Adyen is the only company in the report to receive the highest score in the vision criterion. According to the Forrester report, Adyen “excels in payment performance and in omnichannel…” and is “often first to market with new features.” The report goes on to say that, “Adyen’s strength is its single platform and single API approach to performing all different payment activities, in different geographies and channels.”  The Forrester report also noted that, “Adyen is a best fit for merchants looking to consolidate on one partner for their omnichannel customer journeys….” A reference customer cited in the repor...