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Huawei is investing further in Singapore with HUAWEI CLOUD and a Cloud & AI Innovation Lab. Source: Huawei. HUAWEI CLOUD was launched in Singapore at HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 . Three flagship cloud services were released at HUAWEI CLOUD SUMMIT 2019 : ▶ ECS C6, the industry's first elastic cloud services using servers based on the Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processor. Cascade Lake performs 15% better than the industry average and can handle 10 million network packets per second (PPS). ▶ Object Storage Service (OBS), which uses unique HUAWEI CLOUD algorithms to achieve the highest performance in the industry. Single-stream bandwidth reaches 2.4 Gbps, one bucket - the unit used for storage - supports billions of objects, and data reliability reaches 99.99%, meeting long-term storage requirements for massive volumes of data. ▶ The new high-performance distributed Taurus database has seven times the performance of native MySQL databases. This solution provides t...

Source: Fujitsu. Dynamic risk hotspot predictions. Fujitsu has announced the results of a field trial conducted with the assistance of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) in analysing marine traffic risks in the Singapore Straits. Fujitsu has demonstrated the usefulness of a novel ship collision risk prediction technology that leverages the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in predicting near misses between vessels. Using AI technology Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, this solution can detect ship collision risks and predict areas where collision risks are concentrated as dynamic risk hotspots. This technology has the potential to be deployed in a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) system* to assist maritime traffic controllers to manage marine traffic proactively with the aim of improving the safety of navigation. Fujitsu aims to deliver services incorporating this technology for maritime traffic controllers a...

Source: Tableau. Minister Maliki addresses the audience. Guest-of-honour and keynote speaker Singapore Senior Minister of State for Defence & Foreign Affairs Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman, discussed the use of data in the public service, as well as digital defence in a digital age at Tableau Software’s 5 th annual Public Sector Day .  In his speech the minister addressed the inter-connectedness brought about by digital technology, which has made us more vulnerable to cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns and fake news. He outlined examples of the economic damage, as well as the social and political disruption, that such scourges have had internationally and domestically, and called on all Singaporeans to recognise their role as the first line of defence against threats.  According to Minister Maliki, the government is building up data science and analytics capabilities. "At the launch of the Digital Government Blueprint last year, we committed to train...

Tata Sky , the Indian content distribution platform, now offers personalised content recommendations on the Tata Sky mobile app and on Watch.tatasky.com . The mobile app and watch.tatasky.com give subscribers access to 400+ live channels and over 5,000 TV and movie titles on their laptops and iOS/Android mobile devices. Tata Sky chose ThinkAnalytics to enable users to find content easily online and on mobile devices, boosting overall viewer engagement. The experience is personalised through the use of ThinkAnalytics’ artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies and based on the subscriber’s previous viewing behaviour. Initially in English, the service has planned support for additional languages in the future. The ThinkAnalytics recommendation engine now helps subscribers discover content based on the genres, language and even cast preferences based on his or her last visit to the platform. Also important to Tata Sky was ThinkAnalytics’ proven ability to scale ...

Source: Huawei. Meng. At the 16th Huawei Global Analyst Summit , Meng Guangbin, President of Intelligent Storage and Data Management Domain, Huawei’s IT Product Line, announced that Huawei ranked 1st globally in terms of growth rate of all-flash storage market share in 2018. Huawei intelligent storage has also gained 40% CAGR from 2012 to 2018. Meng said, “Based on comprehensive capabilities for product and technology innovation, Huawei intelligent storage will continuously integrate with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help customers cope with explosive data growth, simplify their data management and maintenance, and accelerate data analysis and mining, so that customers will step into a more intelligent data era..” Huawei covers a wide range of storage needs. For enterprise applications such as traditional databases, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and office automation (OA) in data centres, Huawei provides the OceanStor enterprise storage platform which in...

The HUAWEI P30 Series made its debut at VivoCity in Singapore yesterday, where the phone was sold out by noon. Hundreds were in line to buy the the latest flagship in Huawei's photography-first smartphone family, with the first in line queuing as early as 9 pm the day before. Since its global launch in France last week, the Huawei P30 Series had become known for its integrated Leica Quad Camera, a world’s first, with industry-leading zoom capabilities and low-light performance. Francis Toh, decided to switch to Huawei after being convinced by his wife, Mrs Amy Toh, who has used the Huawei Mate 10 and P20 Pro. He said, “When I compared the images taken from my phone and my wife’s, I was very amazed with the detail and the difference was very obvious. I decided to follow the updates for the latest Huawei products so that I can plan my purchase ahead. I think what really makes the P30 Pro stand out for me is the low-light photography and zoom capabilities that no o...

Source: Huawei. Huawei AI Fabric and Cisco's networking solutions in the AI/ML scenario (Based on the Tolly test report). Huawei has announced at the Huawei China Eco-Partner Conference 2019 that its AI Fabric Intelligent and Lossless Data Center Network solution has undergone comparison test and verification by the Tolly Group. The test results showed that, in typical service scenarios for data centres that are oriented to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, Huawei AI Fabric has superior performance to competitive networking solutions. Huawei's Global Industry Vision (GIV) predicts the AI adoption rates will reach 86% by 2025 — and that leveraging AI to make decisions, reshape business models and ecosystems, and rebuild customer experiences will be a key driving force for adoption. Additionally, AI will also drive ICT infrastructure transformation. Tolly tested the data centre switch networking solutions from Huawei and ...