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Rackspace Technology, the end-to-end multicloud solutions provider, has shared that over seven in 10 (72%) Singapore IT leaders say cybersecurity is a top-three business concern for C-suites, ahead of issues such as price inflation (54%), compliance (42%) and supply chain/logistics management (38%). This is significantly higher than the global average, where 59% of global IT leaders name cybersecurity as a key concern. In research* polling 150 Singapore IT leaders, a little over half (51%) said that they are able to manage cybersecurity risks. This leaves 49% of respondents unable to cope, despite sizable increases in cybersecurity investment, greater board visibility and increased collaboration between the security team and the C-suite across all respondents. A similar proportion report being either “fully-prepared” or “somewhat prepared” to respond to major threats, such as recovering from cyberattacks (51%) or identifying and mitigating threats and areas of concern (50%). When...

Source: Lendlease Digital. Podium Property Insights dashboard mockup. Lendlease Digital announced the launch of Podium Property Insights in Asia. Launched in partnership with Accenture and Google Cloud , the software for workplace managers and real estate owners will optimise space utilisation and cost savings within buildings that support employers in improving the employee experience. Designed for large scale enterprises, government agencies, and portfolios, the platform allows users to view, analyse and predict future requirements, as well as gain value from specific data at a portfolio, building and team level. The partners have begun pilots in select locations, including Accenture’s Singapore office and the Csuites flexible workspace at Paya Lebar Quarter. The Podium Property Insights tool creates personalised insights and recommended actions to inform future workspace decisions, and drive improvements to employee satisfaction. Podium Property Insights supports 20 unique metrics...

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...