Archive for the ‘Enterprise IT’ Category
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Last week, I popped down to Canberra Primary School to take a look at how Dell works with the school and Playware Studios Asia to design an educational platform for immersive learning in the digital edge.
The interior of the 4Di Lab at Canberra Primary School.
During the visit, we checked out the 4Di Lab which is powered by Dell solutions and Playware Studios Asia’s 3DHive technology.
Impressions:
This is an interesting collaboration between the public sector, a hardware supplier and a software solutions provider.
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Tags:Canberra, DELL, education, MOE, Playware, visit
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) collaborates with Red Hat to Use open source solutions for data analytic applications development.
Witnesses and signing parties of the MOU collaboration between Red Hat and A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre. From L-R: Ang Wee Tiong, Director, Technology, BATC; Dr. Tan Geok Leng, Executive Director, Science & Engineering Research Council, A*STAR & Chairman, BATC Management Committee; Damien Wong, General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat; Suresh Sachi, Deputy Managing Director (Corporate & Legal), General Counsel, A*STAR; Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources; Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, IDA; Shankha Sen, Chief Financial Officer, Red Hat Asia Pacific.
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced plans for a new collaboration with A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) to help accelerate innovation and drive adoption of business analytics with open source solutions from Red Hat.
“Open source has evolved to become a foundation for innovation. As technology continues to become more of a commodity, the standardization of parts can help spur more rapid innovation,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat.
Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, was present for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today in Singapore with Dr Tan Geok Leng, Chairman of BATC Management Committee and Executive Director for the Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), A*STAR.
Red Hat will be collaborating with BATC in areas of big data, middleware, Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud and storage, for the innovation and development of current and upcoming analytics projects.
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Tags:A*STAR, analytics, BATC, Big Data, data, Linux, MOU, Open source, Operating System, OS, Red Hat, Singapore
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Friday, August 9th, 2013
Progress Software has boosted its cloud toolset with the availability of Progress Pacific’s new data connectivity and application capabilities as part of its Progress Pacific application platform-as-a-service (aPaaS).
Progress Pacific is a new Application Platform as a Service (aPaas) for building and managing powerful, data-rich business applications on any cloud, mobile or social platform.
Progress Pacific includes the new Progress DataDirect Cloud service, Progress Rollbase, and Progress OpenEdge 11.3 development software.
“Customer and partner response to the Progress Pacific launch in June has been extremely positive and we are now delivering on our vision. It’s clear that the move to aPaaS is gaining momentum as time-to-market and data capabilities in new apps are key requirements for developers and end users. Pacific addresses these needs with rich data, visual design and open deployment capabilities in a single platform,” John Goodson, Chief Product Officer at Progress Software.
These new capabilities further Progress Software’s strategy to give anyone the ability quickly create, evolve, and customize connected business applications on demand.
The product is a platform which simplifies application development and deployment for anyone who wants to develop apps for consumers or businesses.
Think an easy drag-and-drop tool that does not require developers to have complicated programming language capability which includes new data connectivity and application capabilities.
The idea is to make modern application development a breeze to allow developers, independent software vendors and enterprises to create and roll out apps to meet the needs of their internal employees or customers’ needs.
Afterall, we live in a mobile world now where apps is the new rule of the game.
Below are more technical descriptions of the new capabilities.
Tags:application, availability, cloud, development, enterprise IT, PaaS, Progress, software
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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
HP’s new data center network fabric is built on HP FlexNetwork architecture, enabling business agility for clients by delivering two times greater scalability and 75% less complexity over current network fabrics while reducing network provisioning time from months to minutes.
Pricing and availability within.
HP FlexiFabric 11908, FlexiFabric 12916 and FlexiFabric 12910 SDN switches.
As companies move to a cloud environment, legacy network architectures are buckling under the pressure for instant access to applications and services that offer a high-quality user experience.
“For the past 20 years, data center networks have lagged in supporting new enterprise demands for cloud, virtualisation and big data,” Morten Illum, vice president and general manager, HP Networking, Asia Pacific and Japan.
Organisations are struggling with the complexity of current data center network fabric designs, which require manual device-by-device configurations and limit the performance of bandwidth-intensive applications.
HP is addressing these challenges with a series of software-defined network (SDN) data center switches that deliver advanced automation capabilities and industry-leading scalability for bandwidth-intensive applications such as Hadoop.
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Tags:HP, interviews, networking, SDN, Singapore, switches
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
The RSA Conference Asia Pacific 2013 is being held in Singapore from 5-6 June in Marina Bay Sands. It is a joint collaboration between RSA Conferences, the Safety and Security Industry Programme Office (SSIPO) and the Singapore Tourism Board.
RSA Conference Asia Pacific 2013 in Singapore from 5-6 June 2013.
The RSA Conference Asia Pacific 2013 aims to grow Singapore’s cybersecurity thought-leadership sphere in the region by creating value-added platforms to discuss the challenges and solutions in today’s increasingly complex security environment.
The RSA Conference Asia Pacific 2013 features approximately 50 sessions spanning the following 5 tracks:
- Cybercrime & Law Enforcement
- Mobile Security
- Security Infrastructure
- Cloud Security
- Data and Application Security
SSIPO is a strategic alliance between the Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to support private companies in undertaking R&D in Singapore and build new solutions to detect threats and protect data.
RSA is the security division of EMC and offers intelligence-driven security solutions.
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Tags:conferences, EMC, enterprise IT, MBS, RSA, security, Singapore
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Monday, June 3rd, 2013
The Big Data Innovation Center is equipped with advanced analytic infrastructure and software – to speed solutions development for Big Data market in Asia.
The changing marketplace is encouraging enterprises to harness the promise of Big Data and associated tools such as predictive analytics. Click to view enlarged view of the details.
The new Big Data Innovation Center is a collaborative effort by Dell, Intel and Revolution Analytics and is located in the Dell Solutions Center in Singapore.
“The global market for big data analytics is growing at a rapid pace, and businesses in Singapore are uniquely suited to capitalize on this trend,” said Laurence Liew, Managing Director of Revolution Analytics Asia-Pacific.
The center brings together expertise across all three organisations to provide extensive training programs, proof-of-concept capabilities and solution development support on big data and predictive analytic innovations for Asia market.
In a world where analytics, big data and cloud are converging, the need to manage, monitor and predict business outcomes and market readiness is also changing.
The prevalence of tablets, smart phones and social media also increase the urgency to mine intelligence from the tons of raw data
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Tags:analytics, Big Data, DELL, Hadoop, Intel, Revolution Analytics, Singapore
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Increased performance, dependability and smart design for both entry-level and high-end workstation users.
The Dell Precision R7610 rack workstation is available now starting at S$3,258 and the Dell Precision T1700 Mini-Tower and Small Form-Factor will be available on June 4.
Dell pushes workstation computing boundaries with the smallest tower chassis in its class and the world’s most powerful rack workstation. From left: Dell Precision T1700 MT, R7610, T1700 SFF. Images not shown to scale.
Offering powerful workstation performance at near desktop PC prices, the new Dell Precision T1700 Small-Form Factor (SFF) and Mini-Tower (MT) are the smallest workstations in their class.
“Dell Precision workstations are packed with the power and graphics capabilities necessary for our students to produce their best work,” said Dr. Elisa Stephens, president of the Academy of Art University.
On the other end, the Dell Precision R7610 rack workstation delivers new virtualisation capabilities, increased performance and enhanced remote accessibility.
Dell’s updated workstation portfolio further reinforces Dell’s aim of providing secure, manageable and reliable commercial PC solutions.
An expanded and stronger Dell Precision workstation portfolio
The new Dell Precision T1700 SFF is approximately 30 percent smaller than competitive systems allowing IT to easily deploy an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) certified workstation almost anywhere, regardless of space constraints.
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Tags:AMD, computers, DELL, enterprise IT, Intel, NVIDIA, Singapore, workstations
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
The Ethernet industry is now worth $100 billion per year, according to Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Inventor, now UT Austin Professor of Innovation.
Infographic from Tata Communications: A visual representation of the evolution of Ethernet. Click to see enlarged version.
Henry Bohannon recaps how Ethernet has evolved over the past 40 years and how it is expected to continue to change our lives in the years to come.
Tags:anniversary, Ethernet, Singapore, Tata
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
Based on data from the recent annual 2013 Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18, Symantec debunks seven of the most commonly held myths around cybersecurity.
Infographic from Symantec and Norton to debunk the top 7 cybersecurity myths. Click to view enlarged version.
Contrary to the popular belief that staying away from risky sites will is enough to protect your computer – did you know that 61% of malicious sites are actually legitimate websites that have been compromised and infected with malicious codes?
At the same time, do be extra careful when accessing your social networks – be on the lookout for scams involving fake gift cards and surveys as these comprise 56% of attacks on social media.
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Tags:cybersecurity, infographics, Norton, reports, security, Singapore, Symantec, threat, tips
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
The PhotoNote app digitses analog material into an online photo notebook – for more efficient management and more effective communications.
New freemium app from Fuji Xerox: PhotoNote – an online photo notebook.
SkyDesk PhotoNote captures and stores analog content into digital form for more efficient storage and access and enables these content to be easily shared with co-workers, partners or customers for more effective communications.
Hand-written-character recognition
PhotoNote’s digitisation uses Fuji Xerox’s proprietary character-recognition technology for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that includes recognition of hand-written characters.
The technology mimics a human’s visual information processing and this is the first time such technology is used on commercialised software.
Currently, only English and Japanese are supported.
Most of the features are free, with additional storage and Excel conversion feature available as paid options (prices within).
The app works with iOS and Android and is available in Singapore, Australia and Japan.
PhotoNote digitises physical memos or meeting notes jotted down during business discussions and stores them in the cloud – enabling easy access by the user and quick sharing of the information with others.
To digitise printed material, forms, handwritten memos and whiteboards, simply snap a photo using a smartphone or digital camera and upload the photo onto SkyDesk on the cloud.
The PhotoNote app automatically conducts image processing and OCR conversion, storing the image together with tags and additional text annotations, as well as text data from the conversion.
Easy search can be done on the database of PhotoNote records based on recorded time/date, tags, and the converted text.
Tags:Apps, Australia, cloud, Fuji Xerox, Japan, OCR, PhotoNote, photos, PIM, Singapore, SkyDesk, software
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