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VMware has outlined its strategy for empowering organisations across Southeast Asia and Korea to build the best digital foundation in Asia’s rapidly-digitalising economy at the 2019 VMware CIO Forum in Singapore. According to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey , digital business has reached a tipping point. Forty-seven percent of Asia Pacific CIOs report their enterprises have already changed their business models or are in the process of changing them*. Thirty-one percent of Asia Pacific CIOs are also scaling up their digital transformation efforts to capitalise on the region’s growth. ASEAN’s digital economy is projected to hit US$5.1 trillion by 2025 alone, up from US$200 billion in 2018**. “There is no question that businesses need to transform themselves to stay relevant in Asia’s new economic paradigm. The question is how can they support innovation and business growth in the coming decades,” said Sanjay K. Deshmukh, VP and MD, Southeast Asia and Korea, VMware. “With VMware’s end to ...

The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) of Singapore has introduced three initiatives to facilitate the movement and use of data to support innovation, and to strengthen accountability among organisations: - A public consultation to seek views on proposed data portability and data innovation provisions, as part of the review of the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA);   -  A new Guide on Active Enforcement as part of its drive for organisations to shift from compliance to accountability; and - An updated Guide to Managing Data Breaches 2.0, to help organisations manage and respond to data breaches more effectively. Deputy Commissioner of PDPC Yeong Zee Kin said, “Data is a key enabler of digital transformation, but a balance must be achieved between data protection and business innovation. We are taking firm steps to position Singapore as a trusted data hub in the global digital economy by seeking feedback on the proposed data portability and innovation prov...

We are now in the era of data-centric computing, says Intel , and modern infrastructure will be required to take full advantage of potential benefits. Lemon speaking about successful IT transformation. "Data is really changing the way that the economy is working. What drives that change is the ability to act on insights that data brings in a timely manner," explained Sumner Lemon, Regional Director of Digital Transformation and Enterprise Sales, Intel Asia Pacitic & Japan, speaking at the Huawei Cloud Summit 2019 in Singapore last month. That ability only comes with infrastructure modernisation, however. "You can't compete today on old infrastructure," Lemon stressed. With the volumes of data generated today growing at a 30% compound annual growth rate, performance on existing infrastructure ends up being lower and maintenance costs higher than using new infrastructure, he said. Companies which have adopted modern infrastructures as p...

It's not all gadgets and gaming at the 4th Consumer Electronics Exhibition (CEE). Held from 23 - 26 May 2019, CEE 2019 is organised by Exhibits Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sphere Exhibits, the events and exhibitions arm of Singapore Press Holdings. Highlights for corporate customers include: Source: CEE website. Banner for Discover Microsoft (Level 3, Booth 318) At the Create zone, discover how Microsoft Surface and Microsoft Office 365 are designed to unlock creativity. Device trade-ins extended to corporate customers (Entrance at the front of Hall 403) For the first time, companies can now trade-in their old laptops, tablets, desktops, phones and monitors at the show. Corporate users need to fill in an online form and arrange for a viewing appointment. Once the parties agree on the value of the trade-in, the company will be issued cash vouchers when it brings the devices to CEE 2019 for redemption. The vouchers can be used for purchases at select retaile...

Despite everything it said about communications being encrypted and thus safe, WhatsApp has been hacked. Any attack on popular software could potentially affect billions of users. While this vulnerability has been patched, users need to be aware that the software they use daily might not be secure. Said Oded Vanunu, Head of Products Vulnerability Research, Check Point Software Technologies: "The issue affects WhatsApp for Android and iOS, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2019-3568, can successfully be exploited to install the spyware and steal data from a targeted Android phone or iPhone by merely placing a WhatsApp call, even when the call is not answered. "Also, the victim would not be able to find out about the intrusion afterward as the spyware erases the incoming call information from the logs to operate stealthily. Still open – in order to escape the sandbox to the OS we assume more zero days were used." A zero day vulnerability is one for w...

- Singapore customers can buy the HUAWEI MateBook 13 and MateBook X Pro from May 30, 2019. - HUAWEI P30 Pro in Amber Sunrise will be available for units with 512 GB storage. The Huawei Consumer Business Group Singapore has announced that it will be expanding its product offerings in Singapore from smartphones and smartwatches to laptops. The laptop range includes the latest HUAWEI MateBook 13 and MateBook X Pro. Xu Chengfei, MD, Huawei Consumer Business Group Singapore said, “We are excited to introduce our latest range of laptops in Singapore featuring premium aesthetics and powerful performance. In recent years, we have experienced double-digit growth locally which signifies a strong customer base with an appetite for innovative, high-quality products. As we continue to look at ways to expand our product offerings in the market, we want our customers to enjoy a seamless interconnected user experience within the product ecosystem.” The HUAWEI MateBook 13 was first revealed a...

Qlik is launching Qlik Sense Enterprise on Qlik Cloud Services. This aligns the Qlik analytics platform with customers’ cloud-first strategies. With thisi development, all deployment options for Qlik Sense Enterprise - including Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows - now work cohesively as part of Qlik’s multicloud deployment framework that can be managed as one instance. With the latest release of Qlik Sense Enterprise, Qlik now enables users to deploy Qlik Sense Enterprise entirely on Qlik Cloud Services, Qlik’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment. Additionally, businesses can choose to deploy Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes in the public or private cloud of their choice. The move also makes Qlik the leading modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform vendor to provide broad multicloud deployment options, all of which are available under a single subscription-licensing model. “Enterprises want insights at scale throughout their organisation and across th...