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Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX company, is now offering cloud-native technologies from Tangent Works as part of a strategic partnership. Tangent Works’ Tangent Information Modeler (TIM) , an automatic model-building engine for time-series forecasting and anomaly detection, will be available in Singapore, Malaysia and India. TIM leverages artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve operational efficiency in industries like energy, utilities, manufacturing, healthcare and finance. With expert-intensive automated machine learning (AutoML), users need to perform feature engineering, model selection and tuning to get the same results as TIM . The TIM hyper-automated engine covers all these steps in one pass of the data, bringing increased speed, efficiency, productivity and scalability.

Nokia has won a 10-year extension to its existing nationwide 5G network deal with Antina, the joint venture formed by mobile network operators M1 and StarHub in Singapore, following a competitive tender process. The deal will see Nokia deploy a 5G standalone (SA) network for both indoor and outdoor coverage as well as expand the existing network utilising Antina’s 3.5 GHz spectrum holdings. Specifically, Nokia will equip new buildings throughout the city state with its AirScale indoor Radio (ASiR) small cell solution for seamless indoor coverage. Nokia will also provide equipment from its latest energy-efficient AirScale portfolio including 5G base stations, massive MIMO adaptive antennas for urban and wide-area coverage, and dual-band remote radio heads (RRH). Antina will utilise its spectrum in the 2.1 GHz (n1) and 3.5 GHz (n78) band which provides a good combination of capacity and coverage. All of these solutions will deliver an enhanced 5G user experience with high bandwidth, u...

Epson has launched the EcoTank L3550 and L5590 printers. The new printers offer higher printing speed and durability, and are positioned as more premium printers. Source: Epson. The EcoTank L3550 printer. “With hybrid working arrangements becoming the norm in many parts of the world, the EcoTank L3550 printer was designed to deliver efficient and effortless printing solutions suited for a home setting. The L5590 targets small offices/work offices to deliver a more business-oriented and low-cost printing solution.  "Building upon the specs of previous EcoTank models, while also incorporating updated features, this new series of EcoTank printers aims to be a high-speed all-in-one printing solution for both business and home printing needs,” said Derek Tan, Head of Sales and Marketing, Epson Singapore.  Source: Epson. The EcoTank L5590 printer.     Thanks to an upgraded PrecisionCore print head, the two printers are faster than earlier EcoTank models. Black/colo...

by Shanmuga Sunthar Muniandy, Director of Data Architecture, Denodo APAC Source: Denodo. Muniandy. Data fabric and data mesh are two concepts frequently mentioned in conversations surrounding enterprise data and analytics. While they may seem similar on the surface, they are in fact very different in purpose for information flow. The ramifications too have a growing impact on businesses today and in the future, as more elements of business — product delivery, customer engagement, business development, and even financial accounting — involve data integration and management. Over the past two decades, enterprises have managed data by oscillating through cycles of centralisation, decentralisation, databasing, data warehousing, cloud data stores, and data lakes. The list goes on. At present, we have cloud-based-hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), Microsoft Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as instantly recognisable choices. Despite the abundance of options, the conu...

Source: Samsung. The new Galaxy S23 Series. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Series, announced earlier in February, is now available.  Led by the Galaxy S23 Ultra with its new 200MP Adaptive Pixel sensor and iconic embedded S Pen, the Galaxy S23 series — also featuring the Galaxy S23+ and Galaxy S23 — represents a new era of Samsung’s ultimate premium phone experience. The Galaxy S23 series features advanced cameras, the world’s fastest mobile graphics 1 thanks to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy, and a striking design that advances the company’s sustainability commitments with more components made using recycled materials than in any other Samsung Galaxy smartphone. 2 The Samsung Galaxy S23 series also unlocks the next level of mobile security with Samsung Message Guard . This sandboxing tool preemptively protects against zero-click exploit attacks. This is a new kind of cyberattack where just receiving an image can compromise a device — even without the user’s interact...

By Thomas Kunnumpurath, VP, Systems Engineering, Solace Concept art generated by dream by WOMBO. Two data-driven technologies at the macro level will drive change over the next 12 months and beyond. They will enable every business to make greater use of their data, improve business efficiency and serve their end customers better and faster than ever before. Applied observability Observability has grown up, breaking out from its infant stages as a tech-focused term to something that organisations realise will provide the key to keeping track of key data events in an increasingly decoupled business world spanning systems architecture to the business operations it supports. Moving forward, we now have the next level, "applied observability", recognised by Gartner as a key 2023 strategic tech trend at its most recent Orlando Symposium . Applied observability enables organisations to exploit their data artifacts for competitive advantage. That means being able to ensure that...

By David Lenz, VP, Asia Pacific, Arcserve 2023 could be the year we see the first major software-as-a-service (SaaS) outage. The message will become apparent very quickly that data backup and recovery must be front and centre.  Companies across Asia Pacific (APAC) are increasingly consuming software as a service rather than running their own IT infrastructure on premises. However, many still mistakenly believe that data protection is the responsibility of their cloud provider and assume that the provider will handle all aspects of data protection, including backing up and recovering the data. If a service like Microsoft 365 suffers a major outage, organisations need to know that while their service is guaranteed, the organisation’s data safety is not. The responsibility lies solely on the organisation. While cloud providers do take steps to protect their customers' data, it is ultimately the customer's responsibility to ensure that their data is backed up, secure, and recoverab...