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United Overseas Bank Malaysia and The FinLab have announced that the small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have completed the Jom Transform Programme 1 are expected to see productivity rise by up to 30% through digitalisation. The Jom Transform Programme is the first business transformation programme in Malaysia to help local businesses digitalise their operations, driving productivity and revenue growth.  During the three-month programme, the 16 participating SMEs gained digital transformation skills and knowhow such as business re-engineering and digital marketing. As part of their skills development, they learnt from experts and were matched with technology partners to pilot relevant solutions and to assess the effectiveness of these solutions. Out of the 16 participating SMEs, 12 piloted solutions to enhance their core business processes such as payroll, human resources and accounting. The automation of these processes is expected to help employees reduce the t...

- Businesses are moving more data and workloads to the cloud and taking advantage of cloud-hosted solutions, making multifaceted data management and protection more important than ever before. - Forty-seven percent (Singapore: 63%) of respondents characterise their company’s current infrastructure state as an even split between the public cloud and the data centre. - More than 70% (Singapore: 66%) indicate their desired end state is to run most or all of their applications on public cloud infrastructure. Veritas Technologies ' Truth in Cloud Report reiterates the industry’s shift toward cloud.  The company says that there is a 4x year-over-year increase in data moving to two leading public clouds to power backup and disaster recovery at scale over the past year alone. This is in addition to an increase in the number of Veritas NetBackup workloads that have moved to the cloud in that same timeframe. NetBackup is the company's backup and recovery solution. The T...

Trend Micro , a cybersecurity solutions provider, has received several accolades in The Forrester Wave, Cloud Workload Security, Q4 2019 report . The company received the highest score in the current offering and strategy categories, and among the second-highest scores in the market presence category. Trend Micro believes that this recognition underscores the leadership of its cloud offerings and strategy as the peak of the cloud security market. “We’ve invested significantly in our cloud security offerings, and I view this report as validation of our vision, continued innovation, and strong execution,” said Nilesh Jain, VP, Southeast Asia and India, Trend Micro. “We were one of the first security vendors to predict the growing appetite for cloud workload security solutions, and I think we have hit the bullseye on combining technology, partnerships and seamless integration of acquisitions over time.” Forrester evaluated 13 competitive security vendors across 30 criteria and in t...

by Matthew Heap, Regional Manager, Solutions Architecture at Rackspace   Source: Rackspace. Heap. Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) business leaders now acknowledge that unceasing digital transformation is a business necessity. This is particularly so in Asia, where government-led initiatives such as Singapore’s SMEs Go Digital programme and Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency have made it the norm. While mindsets have shifted, the number of business outcomes expected from digital transformation is also multiplying. IT is now expected to: create new business models; accelerate the delivery of products and services; increase business agility; deliver superior customer experiences; as well as fortify security and compliance. IT must lead its business to deliver on these transformative opportunities with a digital cloud strategy driving the growth of the business. A well-designed cloud strategy (which often includes a hybrid or multicloud approach) delivers optimise...

Plantronics , the company that was formerly Plantronics and Polycom and now referred to as Poly, has introduced videoconferencing devices with a built-in Microsoft Teams experience. The Poly Studio X Series consists of two new purpose-built, all-in-one video bars for Microsoft teams, and will offer a native Teams meeting and calling experience. The Poly Studio X30 and Poly Studio X50 are designed for small rooms and support 4K Ultra high definition (UHD), and advanced noise suppression. Setup requires a single power-over-Ethernet cable. Users can control the Studio X Series with the new Poly TC8 touch screen. Poly Studio, a plug-and-play USB video bar for small huddle rooms, is now certified for Microsoft Teams. The Poly Studio USB video bar features room-filling audio, a 4K HD camera with built-in speaker tracking and framing, as well as support for remote cloud management for ongoing updates and configuration.  “Whenever and wherever people connect with Microsoft Teams, we ...

Nutanix , an enterprise cloud computing provider, has been named a Leader by Gartner in the November 2019 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) . “We continue to be recognised by Gartner as a Leader in hyperconverged infrastructure again and again, and we believe it is because of our relentless focus on pioneering innovative technology and customer success,” said Dheeraj Pandey, Chairman, Founder and CEO at Nutanix. Nutanix has been recognised in all editions of this Magic Quadrant since Gartner started it. Nutanix believes that enterprises continue to choose its products over competitors for its simplicity and flexibility, as well as the company’s exceptional customer service. “Our goal is to make IT and cloud infrastructure so simple that it fuels innovation and business growth. Nutanix provides flexibility, not only via our products and solutions, but also from the freedom to choose the best HCI consumption model for the business, including software...

BlackBerry has announced that two of the company’s secure communication solutions,  BlackBerry AtHoc and BlackBerry's SecuSUITE for Government, are now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The move marks a further expansion of BlackBerry’s AWS cloud offerings. BlackBerry Cylance’s AI-driven endpoint protection, CylancePROTECT and BlackBerry UEM are already available on AWS. “Whether securing highly confidential government communications or providing a unified platform in times of crisis, organisations need solutions they trust implicitly,” said Richard McLeod, VP, Global Enterprise Software Channels at BlackBerry. “As an Advanced Partner in the AWS Partner Network, BlackBerry can now offer its new solutions to AWS customers so they can further maximise their cloud investments and scale the solutions to adapt to changing needs. BlackBerry AtHoc provides organisations with a secure and trusted communication platform to help keep people safe and bolster org...