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Snowflake , the data cloud company, has listed the winners of the 4th annual Data Drivers Awards for Southeast Asia. These awards honour Snowflake customers leading their organisations and reimagining what’s possible with the data cloud across their industries. Source: Snowflake. From left: Sanjay Deshmukh, Senior Regional VP, ASEAN and India, Snowflake; Dan Noel Natindim, VP for Enterprise Data Office, Globe Telecom (ASEAN); Manish Kumar, Head of Data Management and Engineering, Funding Societies; Ned Lowe, Head of Engineering at Singlife with Aviva; Danny Thien, Director, Head of Data, M1; Edgar Ricardo Contreras Borjas, Backend and DevOps Team Lead, Lomotif. “Snowflake customers continue to push the envelope of what’s possible with data, unlocking new ways to drive impact across the Data Cloud . They demonstrate how a well-implemented cloud data analytics strategy drives innovation, increases business agility, improves time-to-market and enhances customer experience,” said S...

NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, in collaboration with VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with VMware Cloud on AWS , the first and only native AWS cloud storage service certified and supported as a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud on AWS . With this new datastore solution, enterprises can quickly, easily and cost-effectively move their enterprise, data-demanding workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS . This allows organisations to scale cloud storage independent of cloud compute to optimise costs, deploy new modern applications with the speed and scalability of the cloud, and maximise the value of their existing IT investments. Additionally, organisations can gain access to the rich data management, protection, and efficiency benefits of ONTAP utilised by nearly 20,000 VMware customers running on-premises today. “Our strong relationship, deep integration and joint innovation with b...

CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business, has announced a new version of Voltage File Analysis Suite (FAS), a cloud platform that combines the latest in data discovery and data protection. Among the new features in Voltage FAS is SmartScan, a tool for intelligent sampling and dynamic tagging for petabyte scale data discovery. “The new CyberRes Voltage File Analysis Suite takes data security to the next level with its data discovery and protection capabilities within one solution,” said Reiner Kappenberger, Director Product Management, Voltage Data Privacy and Protection.  “Since it is delivered as a SaaS solution, it possesses the scalability needed to meet the needs of any user’s data estate. Furthermore, the dynamic Voltage SmartScan tool provides users with the resources needed to conduct more prescriptive, deeper scans of their data infrastructure and take more focused protective actions.” Voltage FAS is not limited by the constraints of geographic or political boundaries, e...

Talend, a global data integration and data management provider, has been named by Gartner as a Leader in the August 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools . This is the 7th consecutive time that Talend has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant based on the company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. Gartner defines data integration as the discipline comprising the architectural patterns, methodologies, and tools that allow organisations to achieve consistent access and delivery of data across a wide spectrum of data sources and data types to meet the data consumption requirements of business applications and end users. Data integration tools enable organisations to access, integrate, transform, process, and move data spanning various endpoints and across any infrastructure to support their data integration use cases. “We believe that our recognition for the seventh consecutive year as a Leader validates the strategic importance and value Talend co...

Sophos, a global cybersecurity provider, has revealed that businesses are increasingly prioritising budget for cybersecurity. In 2022, 11% of technology budgets are dedicated to cybersecurity, an increase from 8.6% the previous year, Sophos research* has found. Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) organisations have identified threat hunting as a key consideration for strengthening cybersecurity defences. Most organisations (90%) undertook threat hunting to bolster their cybersecurity capabilities in 2021; of those that did, 85% stated the approach is critical or important to their company’s overall cybersecurity capabilities. “It’s great to see organisations taking cybersecurity more seriously, with budgets and maturity levels on the rise and organisations looking to build threat hunting into their cyberdefence strategies,” said Aaron Bugal, Global Solutions Engineer at Sophos. “Given that threat hunting has become a priority for the majority of organisations, it’s interesting to see that...

Consumers in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) remain among the most enthusiastic adopters of digital payments in the world, with 88% having used technologies like digital wallets, QR codes, buy now pay later (BNPL), cryptocurrencies, biometrics and others in the last year, according to Mastercard’s second annual New Payments Index (NPI)*, a global consumer survey spanning 40 markets across five regions, including seven in APAC. What’s more, 69% of APAC consumers increased their usage of at least one digital payment method during the same period, demonstrating momentum. In comparison, only 52% of consumers in North America and 48% in Europe increased their usage in the same way. While the COVID-19 pandemic was the catalyst for the unprecedented, rapid uptake of digital payments, the latest research indicates that the change has been lasting, with 40% of survey respondents in APAC cutting back on their use of cash in the last year. Despite this swing to digital forms of payment, respond...

Source: Fortinet. Singapore 1H22 findings from the FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report . Fortinet, a global player in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced that the ransomware threat continues to adapt, with more variants enabled by ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). According to the company's semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report * for 1H22: - Work-from-anywhere (WFA) endpoints remain targets for cyber adversaries to gain access to corporate networks.  - Operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) environments are both attractive targets as cyber adversaries search for opportunities in the growing attack surface and IT/OT convergence.  - Destructive threat trends continue to evolve, as evidenced by the spread of wiper malware as part of adversary toolkits.  - Cyber adversaries are embracing more reconnaissance and defense evasion techniques to increase precision and destructive weaponisat...