TechTouch Asia

Singapore’s National Research and Education Network or SingAREN is Singapore’s national research and community network. One of its main duties is to connect Singapore’s research and educational organisations to research centres across Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the US. Researchers rely on SingAREN’s networks to securely exchange high volumes of research data. But securing a high-throughput network, used by different institutions, can be challenging. Data transfers include complex folder structures with hundreds of thousands of individual files and folders. At the same time, network latency can lead to delays in research breakthroughs. While member institutions have their own firewalls and security solutions, user devices remain a point of entry for malicious activity. Looking for a comprehensive solution to protect their data, without slowing down the speed of research, SingAREN decided to partner with Check Point. “Research data is a target for threat actors,” sai...

By Shawn McAllister, Solace’s CTO and Chief Product Officer Concept art representing business complexity generated by Blue Willow . Last week, McAllister explained why event brokers are so important for event-driven architecture (EDA). In part 2 of the two-part series, McAllister discusses how to pick the right smart broker: A smart broker should provide three critical attributes: Fine-grained routing and filtering When dealing with complex business operations, events need to be intelligently routed and filtered to be made available to the right people at the right time, not just served up en masse. A smart event broker allows consumers to subscribe to only receive the subset of events they need, in the original sequence.  Take the operational example of a retailer using microservices to stream order-related events – but different functions are being dealt with in different locations. Those application users who only want to process new orders do not require information such a...

Airwallex , a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, has announced a multiyear partnership with the McLaren Formula 1 team. As an Official Partner, Airwallex will support McLaren’s global financial operations through its treasury management and cross-border payouts and settlement product suite.  Source: Airwallex. A McLaren Formula 1 racing car. Specifically, McLaren will use Airwallex to optimise its supply chain payments for all Grands Prix. McLaren’s existing payments infrastructure limits payment to suppliers, such as hotel and event space providers, to a singular currency account based in the UK, resulting in high foreign exchange (FX) charges, slow transfer time and additional SWIFT fees. Airwallex’s financial technology will unlock multicurrency payment options for McLaren, providing the company the ability to hold core currencies and exchange them with speed and ease at any point while reducing the amount of SWIFT fees that may be payable by leveragi...

By Diwakar Dayal, MD & Country Manager at SentinelOne As Asia rapidly embraces digital transformation, businesses face an emerging threat: deepfakes. These sophisticated AI-generated impersonations are no longer confined to political arenas but have permeated the workplace, challenging traditional notions of authenticity and security in the corporate world. Concept art of a threat actor generated by Dream by WOMBO . Employees, often the weakest link in security, are particularly vulnerable to deepfake attacks. Sophisticated AI technologies enable manipulators to create convincing impersonations of colleagues or superiors, potentially leading employees to divulge sensitive information. The implications for organisational security in Asia are profound, emphasising the need for advanced, AI-driven security measures to detect anomalies in user behaviour and access patterns. The double-edged sword of AI in cybersecurity However, it's important to recognise that AI, the very techn...

By Shawn McAllister, Solace’s CTO and Chief Product Officer In the first of a two-part series, McAllister discusses the critical role event brokers play in event-driven architecture (EDA). Concept art representing business complexity generated by Blue Willow . EDA, a software design pattern that can enable real-time, event-driven communication among diverse applications via an event broker, is becoming pervasive among enterprises that want to power time-sensitive applications, business processes, and insights (advanced analytics, machine learning [ML], AI) at scale. Implementations of EDA platforms are now on the fast track, with 82% of IT leaders saying their company plans to apply EDA to 2-3 new use cases within the next 24 months. A new IDC Infobrief charts this rise. EDA adoption goes hand in hand with digital maturity, with 47% of respondents describing their EDA journey as either maturing (“centralised”) or “advanced”. And the rise of EDA is industry-agnostic. Research shows m...

Equinix, the digital infrastructure company, has introduced a fully-managed private cloud service that enables enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure. Through the service, enterprises can scale their infrastructure operations to achieve the level of AI performance needed to develop and run the massive models that custom generative AI requires. Available immediately, the service includes NVIDIA DGX systems, NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Equinix installs and operates each customer’s privately-owned NVIDIA infrastructure and can deploy services on their behalf in key International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres globally. “To harness the incredible potential of generative AI, enterprises need adaptable, scalable hybrid infrastructure in their local markets to bring AI supercomputing to their data,” said Charles Meyers, President and CEO of Equinix.  “Our new service provides customer...

by Ho Vee Leung, Head of Infocomm Technology & Data, PSA Singapore PSA Tuas Port is on the path to becoming the world’s largest automated container terminal, boasting an annual handling capacity of 65 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) once it reaches full operational capacity in the 2040s. The inauguration of the first three berths during phase one of its development in September 2022 marked a milestone in Singapore’s maritime history, firmly establishing the nation as a global hub port powered by cutting-edge technologies. With a visionary and forward-looking approach, Tuas Port has undergone a transformative journey by embracing automation and establishing an innovative command centre to oversee its operations and maintenance. This has allowed the port to streamline its supply chain and provide enhanced support to PSA’s valued customers in managing cargo flows. As a crucial component of this digital transformation, event-driven architecture (EDA) was selected as the c...