Atish Gude, NetApp’s Chief Strategy Officer shares three predictions for 2020, putting the spotlight on 5G, Blockchain and infrastructure virtualisation solutions.
* This article is contributed by Atish Gude, based on his professional experience and personal opinions.
What does 2020 hold in store?
2019 was a year of rapid innovation – and disruption – for both the IT industry and the broader business community.
With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de-facto architecture for enterprise customers, organisations everywhere are under tremendous pressure to modernise their infrastructure and deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and workloads.
Multiclouds & Virtualisation
As a result, organisations are shifting from on-premises to leverage public cloud services, building private clouds, and moving from disk to flash in data centers – sometimes concurrently.
These transformations open the door to enormous potential, but also introduce the unintended consequence of rising IT complexity.
We predict that a demand for simplicity and customisability will be the number-one factor driving IT purchasing decisions in 2020.
Data-driven transformations
Vendors will need to provide customers modern, flexible technologies with the choice of how to use and consumes these technologies to meet evolving business models.
As IT departments look to de-emphasise maintenance and hardware, reduce overhead, and adopt pay-as-you-go models, simplicity and choice will be key.
Achieving this simplicity will serve as the foundation for companies as they navigate the exciting technological trends we’ve identified below.
AI Singapore has selected Dell Technologies High-Performance Computing infrastructure to enhance its Artificial Intelligence (AI) competencies.
Romain Bottier, HPC & AI senior solution architect, South Asia, Dell Technologies (left) and Laurence Liew, director, AI Industry Innovation, AI Singapore at the press conference.
Dell Technologies will provide three key computational building blocks for the new supercomputer at AI Singapore to help drive performance and flexibility for its researchers and to scale up its flagship 100 Experiments (100E) programme.
“AI Singapore is pleased to work with Dell Technologies to develop a thriving ecosystem for AI. The close collaboration between AI Singapore’s and Dell Technologies’ engineers has allowed us to co-design and customise a unique infrastructure to meet our AI research, development and AI model deployment needs that are aimed at showcasing the real-world benefits of AI and broadening its adoption in Singapore,” said Laurence Liew, director, AI Industry Innovation, AI Singapore.
At the same time, the Dell Technologies AI Experience Zone in Singapore will support AI Singapore’s efforts to increase AI understanding, education and adoption in Singapore.
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are equipped with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Dell EMC PowerSwitch open networking switches and provide scalable business architecture, intelligent automation and integrated security, allowing AI Singapore to run demanding AI workloads within the data centre and in the cloud.
Predictronics is an AI-driven predictive maintenance analytics solutions provider headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
TVS Motor (Singapore)’s US$3.2m investment in Predictronics Corporation comes on the heels of a US$7m investment in Scienaptic Systems last month in July 2019.
TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte. Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TVS Motor Company Limited, India, has signed definitive agreements to invest US$3.2 million in Predictronics Corporation, which specialises in providing end-to-end predictive maintenance analytics solutions.
The closing of the investment is subject to obtaining appropriate regulatory approvals.
TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte. Limited led this Series A funding in Scienaptic, an AI-powered decision platform.
TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte. Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TVS Motor Company Limited, India, has signed definitive agreements to invest US$7 million in Scienaptic Systems Inc., a Delaware corporation, headquartered in New York City.
Scienaptic combines the latest big data technologies and proprietary machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms on its decision platform, “Ether”.
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Huawei has unveiled in Paris, France the new P20 and P20 Pro smartphones. These two new flagship models promise to continue Huawei’s focus on camera prowess in collaboration with Leica.
Singapore is one of the first few countries to launch the new phones. The prices, colours and availability of the Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro in Singapore has been released. Read the details here.
The P20 and P20 Pro includes improvements to Huawei’s AI engine for enhanced camera functionality while the P20 Pro features the new Leica triple camera.
Key features of the Huawei P20 series include the following.
The Huawei P20 Pro features a camera that promises to capture more light and detail with the new Leica triple camera, boasting what the company claims the smartphone industry’s highest pixel count.
The Huawei P20 features a new Leica dual camera.
Both includes Master AI which includes AI-driven professional photography settings and Huawei AIS – its AI stabilisation technology.
Thin bezel, with new colours including a dynamic gradient finish.
Features Kirin 970 processor with a dedicated NPU and EMUI 8.1 based on Android 8.1 for a premium and smooth user experience.
In addition to the P20 and P20 Pro, Huawei also unveiled the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS (Race Sport).
Singapore will be one of the first few countries in the world to launch the Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro in early April 2018.
Huawei showcases driverless Porsche Panamera driven by the Mate 10 Pro, leveraging the smartphone’s powerful computer chip and AI (Artificial Intelligence) engine.
Huawei boasts that it is the first mobile device manufacturer in the world to use an AI-powered smartphone to drive a car.
The aim of the “RoadReader” project is to push the boundaries of Huawei’s object recognition technology and put the learning capabilities, speed and performance of its AI-powered devices to the test.
The AI engine in the Huawei Mate 10 Pro transforms the Porsche Panamera into a driverless vehicle that does not just see, but also understands its surroundings.
