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OVHcloud has launched new solutions to better support digital transformation in conjunction with its expansion in the Asia Pacific region: Advance dedicated servers The Advance range is designed for small businesses looking for their first hosted infrastructure.to invest in versatile servers that fit their business needs. Users can start with complete peace of mind, the company said. Game dedicated servers The Game dedicated server range emphasises performance for both video game designers and companies who host streaming platforms. Based on a fifth-generation AMD Ryzen platform, these servers are designed to offer users a lag-free gaming experience. Gamers can play their favourite online games without any limits to performance and stability. The Anti-DDoS (distributed denial of service)Game capability, included with all Game dedicated servers, prevents any downtime during the gaming experience in the event of a DDoS attack and is also optimised to adapt to the latest video ...

Razer , the global lifestyle brand for gamers, has announced its first external dock, the Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma, as well as an updated version of their laptop stand, the Razer Laptop Stand Chroma V2. The two new desktop accessories aim to provide a connectivity solution to every type of user, no matter their desktop setup, with a wide selection of ports, premium aluminum build, and signature Razer Chroma RGB underglow. Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma The Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma has been designed as a desktop centrepiece, with a minimalistic design and matte black aluminum finish. A strip of Razer Chroma RGB lighting runs along the bottom and can be customised to match any of the 16.8 million colours available in Razer Synapse 3 *. Source: Razer. Razer announced its first external dock, the the Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma, and an updated version of their laptop stand, the Razer Laptop Stand Chroma V2.   With the new dock, Razer aims to expand deskt...

By Daphne Sim, Country Manager Singapore at OTRS Source: OTRS. Sim. The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we work. Lots of people who are newly working at home would like to keep it that way. In fact, a worldwide survey of 500 employees conducted by OTRS Group revealed that the vast majority of those surveyed (80%) enjoy working from home, even though 68% said working from home was new to them.  Companies are interested too. Leaders are seeing an uptick in productivity. And, in some parts of the world, new laws are even being proposed that could establish home office options as an employee right.  Looking at the Asian market, a South Korean study found that only 40% of firms were willing to let staff work from home. Work culture among Asians also leans towards in-person connections, so most feel a greater urge to leave home to work in the office in the presence of colleagues. However – if working from home has to continue, what do leaders need to focus on to ensure long-...

by Geoff Soon, MD, South Asia at Snowflake Source: Snowflake. Soon. Thousands of organisations – governments, healthcare providers, and businesses – are all asking the same questions as the spread of the virus slows: Which social distancing measures should we relax, when, and at what cadence? How do we prevent future outbreaks and the hike in COVID-19 infection cases globally? If one does occur, what resources will a local area need to stop another outbreak? Data will answer these questions, and provoke more questions from these organisations, such as: How difficult will it be to acquire this data? Is it analytics-ready? How often is it updated? How much will it cost? Is there one place we can find this data and acquire new data sets as they emerge? Can we easily combine it with the data we own to reveal additional insights previously unavailable to us? The data providers, and data analytic service providers, continue to step up. They are making available myriad solutions and...

NVIDIA's latest virtual GPU (vGPU) technology allows enterprises to provide their employees with more power and flexibility through GPU-accelerated virtual machines from the data centre or cloud. The new vGPU software brings GPU virtualisation to a broad range of workloads — such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), high-performance graphics, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) — thanks to its support for the new NVIDIA A40 and NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs. The new release also supports the NVIDIA GPU Operator , a software framework that simplifies GPU deployment and management. NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS) software is a major component of the vGPU portfolio, designed to help users run graphics-intensive applications on virtual workstations. With NVIDIA A40 powering NVIDIA RTX vWS , professionals can achieve up to 60%* faster virtual workstation performance per user and 2x** faster rendering than the previous-generation RTX 6000 GPUs. NVIDIA A40 support with...

Tazapay , which provides a digital escrow system, is set to ramp up growth in February this year. Source: Tazapay. Shinghal. According to Tazapay, large organisations manage the complexities of international trade easily, but smaller businesses typically rely on trust to transact. When negotiating with a business for the first time, neither party has any assurance that the goods or the payment will arrive. Pre-COVID, a key part of establishing trust would have been to visit a potential business partner, seeing their operations and meeting the people. but with travel curtailed today, trade has been hobbled. Tazapay's escrow platform holds funds until goods have arrived, providing peace of mind to both parties in a deal. The company will focus primarily on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) looking at trade deals in the tens of thousands of dollars, particularly commoditised/bulk goods such as apparel, accessories, electronics, and homeware. Rahul Shinghal, CEO & ...

GBG, the global technology specialist in fraud and compliance management, identity verification and location data intelligence, has announced that seven customers using Instinct , GBG’s digital onboarding solution, have deployed the just-launched GBG Intelligence Center . They include a BUKU 4 * state-owned bank in Indonesia, as well as top tier banks, a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) company, consumer financial services firms, a building society, and an insurance firm in Australia. The GBG Intelligence Center is one of the core modules of GBG’s fraud engine, the Digital Risk Management and Intelligence platform. Intelligence Center capabilities help organisations better validate, verify and assess profiles, behaviours and intent of individuals and entities across branch, web, mobile and app, and transform raw data points to data intelligence, to enhance fraud detection and accuracy. Organisations that are already using GBG’s fraud engine can integrate the Intelligence Center to...