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Monday, August 26th, 2013
Workshops and the two seminars at the 2-day (24-25 August) event at the refurbished Suntec City Convention Centre were sold out, as participation in this year’s event was almost twice that of the inaugural I AM NIKON DAY event last year.
* All photos in this post are from Nikon Singapore.
Participants as well as visitors passing by had fun at the Nikon Day Photo Wall, taking photo souvenirs or visiting various Nikon camera display booths showcasing the latest Nikon COOLPIX cameras and Nikon 1 series.
In line with Nikon’s slogan of “At the Heart of the Image”, the aim of the 2-day event was to enrich the public with greater photography knowledge and tips, for both beginner photographers as well as seasoned amateurs.
Shutterbugs also tried their hand at capturing shots of models in the DSLR display area which featured a central boxing ring with models posing through the day.
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Tags:events, Nikon, photography, seminars, workshops
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Monday, June 10th, 2013
This is Tim Cook’s second Apple WWDC at the helm of Apple, with a slew of announcements after a dearth of new products.
Tim Cook’s second WWDC at the helm of Apple.
The annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year is being held from June 10 – 14 at San Francisco’s Moscone West.
Tickets went on sale on 26 April earlier this year – with each ticket going for US$1,599.
A compilation of the main releases from the keynote can be found at the Apple WWDC 2013 event page on the tech4tea Facebook page.
Below are the main revelations at the keynote of WWDC 2013
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Tags:Apple, iOS, iOS7, iTunes, MacBook, MacBook Air, Mavericks, OS X, WWDC
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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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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
With the rise of targeted attacks, Trend Micro urges enterprises to redefine their security strategy to focus on the three C’s: Custom Defense, Complete End User Protection and Cloud Security.
Trend Micro celebrates 25 years this year, since its founding in 1988.
With perimeter defense and conventional security becoming less effective against advanced targeted attacks, Trend Micro today announced the launch of Smart Protection Strategy to help enterprises redefine their security strategy in the wake of more sophisticated, stealthy and persistent cyber threats.
The Smart Protection Strategy covers three focus areas with new solution concepts –
- custom defense against customised targeted cyber-attacks
- complete end user protection for exchange of information in today’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era
- cloud security optimised for data centers.
Eva Chen – CEO and Co-Founder, Trend Micro – described in detail the company’s Smart Protection Strategy at the annual Trend Micro APAC Media Summit 2013 in Singapore today.
JD Sherry – Global Director of Technology and Solutions, Trend Micro – then shared his perspective on the rapidly changing threat landscape, proposing how he believes cyber defence could be carried out in the new cloud era.
The three tenets of Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Strategy are extracted from the company’s press release and appended below. The full press release may be viewed/downloaded here.
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Tags:attacks, BYOD, cloud, cyber, datacenters, defence, media, security, seminar, Singapore, Trend Micro
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
The 3rd annual VMware Cloud Index shows 84% of respondents have adopted or are planning to adopt cloud solutions.
Infographic showing the findings for Singapore from the VMware Cloud Index 2012. Click to enlarge.
The 84% cloud adoption rate shows an increasing trend from 63% in 2011 and 53% in 2010. The findings were released in conjunction with the annual vForum in Singapore.
“Organisations in Singapore are increasingly recognizing the strategic role that cloud computing can play in enabling them to be more productive, stay competitive, and enter new markets,” said Nicholas Tan, country manager, VMware Singapore.
Of the respondents who have not implemented a cloud initiative but were planning to, 55% plan to implement within the next 18 months.
73% of respondents in Singapore said their business outlook for 2012 and 2013 would include growth and expansion, or consolidation with some growth, signaling more potential opportunities to increase cloud adoption.
77% described cloud computing as a top priority or highly relevant to their organization, and 88% agree that cloud will empower their business by simplifying access to IT resources.
69% agree that their organization needs to pursue cloud initiatives or risk falling behind competitors.
“By leveraging VMware solutions on a subscription basis from our telco and service provider partners such as Fujitsu Asia and SingTel, customers can have their data reside in Singapore, and only pay for the services that they consume,” said Kevin Pratesa, director, Service Providers and Public Cloud, VMware ASEAN.
When rating the top reasons for implementing cloud computing in Singapore, respondents strongly rated the need to empower the business by simplifying access to IT resources (80%); supporting a more mobile and flexible workforce (77%); and ensuring that they only pay for the IT they actually use (77%) as factors driving cloud adoption.
The VMware Cloud Index 2012 revealed that the barriers to cloud adoption in Singapore continue to persist and include data privacy, residency, or “loss of control” (72%); cost (69%); and availability or performance concerns (67%).
Despite growing cloud adoption, only one in two respondents (50%) in Singapore agree that their organization is investing in training for cloud-related skills, and 32% say their company is actively seeking to hire new IT staff with cloud computing expertise.
Tags:Asia Pacific, cloud, data center, data centre, Japan, research, study, survey, trends, vForum, virtualisation, virtualization, VMware
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Veeam has reported 67% (Q3 2012) year-on-year growth in APAC and has 50,000 customers around the world.
Veeam Software is a provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V.
“What makes Veeam so successful is that it’s been built from the ground up specifically for virtualised environments, and hence is designed with the ability to innovate at an extremely fast rate while meeting the most stringent data recovery and protection objectives,” said Don Williams, Regional Director APAC, Veeam Software.
The company has capitalised on market opportunities for virtualisation, disaster recovery and cloud technologies in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
This is consistent with the findings of the VMware Cloud Index 2012 which underscored the importance and growth of cloud computing in the region.
Strong demand in APAC has resulted in a year-on-year revenue growth of 48% in Q3 2012 from new licenses.
Veeam’s cloud services business has seen a particularly strong uptake this year, having grown 58% in the last quarter alone. Veeam’s customer base has increased by 28% in the region this year.
Veeam’s presence in Pan Singapore has seen a 110% YoY increase in revenue growth and 86% YoY growth in new licenses revenue in the third quarter.
Simple and speedy data restoration in times of recovery.
Veeam has recently opened new offices in Singapore and plans to expand further across the region in 2013, having already doubled the headcount in the Singapore team.
Veeam at VMware’s vForum
Raymond Goh, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam in Singapore.
I had a chat with Raymond Goh, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam in Singapore, during VMware’s vForum in Singapore.
Raymond gave me a rundown of Veeam’s solutions for data protection and comprehensive systems management for virtualisation.
Two aspects of Veeam’s offerings impressed me during our conversation.
The scalability and flexibility of its solutions means that it can cater to both large enterprises and organisations, as well as smaller SMBs.
The ability of Veeam’s solutions to work simultaneously with both VMware and Hyper-V solutions translate to cost savings for customers who operate both in a mixed virtual environment, since Veeam does not charge separately for catering to two environments.
Solutions from Veeam Software
Veeam Backup & Replication is Veeam’s solution for VMBackup, while Veeam ONE is a single solution for real-time monitoring, resource optimisation and management reporting for VMware and Hyper-V.
The Veeam Management Pack (MP) and Smart Plug-in (SPI) extend enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager.
Tags:APAC, Hyper-V, Singapore, Veeam, vForum, virtualisation, virtualization, VMware
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
The 3rd annual study by VMware shows cloud computing entering a new stage of evolution in the region as it highlights the growth and importance of cloud as a business enabler.
Infographic showing the findings for APJ from the VMware Cloud Index 2012. Click to enlarge.
The results of the study was presented at the annual vForums in Asia. Here are several key trends revealed by the VMware Cloud Index.
Key trends for APJ
- Despite global economic concerns, nearly 80% of respondents in Asia Pacific indicates that their companies’ business outlooks for 2012 and 2013 include some growth and/or expansion.
VMware Cloud Index 2012 findings for Singapore. Click to enlarge.
- Cloud computing is seen by respondents as enabling the business to optimise IT (85%), reduce costs (80%), and supporting a more mobile and flexible workforce (81%).
- The CIO is increasingly empowered, with 44% of them cited as a final cloud decision maker. CEOs remain the top decision maker at 52%, but this is down 6% compared to 2011.
- 71% of respondents state that cloud computing has made their jobs less complex.
- Top barriers to cloud adoption are data privacy, residency, or “loss of control” (69%); security (64%); and cost (62%).
Businesses in APJ (Japan and Asia Pacific region) are forecasting business growth and see cloud computing as an integral part of their strategy.
“There is a transformation taking place in the industry and the datacenter has become a more automated place,” observed Andrew Dutton, senior vice president and general manager, VMware Asia Pacific and Japan.
There is an increased readiness for cloud and indication that it can provide competitive advantage, with 67% of APJ organisations believing that they currently have the skills and infrastructure necessary to manage a private cloud.
68% stated that without pursuing cloud initiatives, they could fall behind the competition.
With 83% of organisations stating that cloud can empower their businesses by simplifying access to IT resources, companies are looking to leverage cloud computing as a business enabler.
“VMware’s software defined approach to the datacenter not only helps organisations address concerns about integration, hybrid management and security, but also allows business leaders to leverage cloud computing in a way that aligns to their business needs,” Dutton added.
On the other hand, IT today is struggling to impose governance, control, access and self-service over heterogeneous cloud services.
VMware is working to solve this challenge – with the introduction of the software defined datacenter as the tenet to cloud computing.
IT has also evolved from its traditional role as a builder of services to become a broker of services and infrastructure capacity.
In the era of the enterprise hybrid cloud, there are new and increased responsibilities for IT, and CIOs will need to be at the helm to bridge the gap between business and IT and manage this transformation.
About the VMware Cloud Index
The 3rd VMware Cloud Index in 2012 is the largest regional cloud-related study in Asia Pacific.
VMware
Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, VMware is a global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud era.
With 2011 revenues of US$3.77b, VMware has more than 400,000 customers and 55,000 partners.
Forrester Consulting and ITR (for Japan only) were commissioned to conduct the annual research in September and October 2012.
Approximately 6,500 senior IT practitioners across the APJ (in eleven countries/regions: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand) were surveyed this year.
Check out the infographics for your region here.
Tags:Asia Pacific, cloud, data center, data centre, Japan, research, Singapore, study, survey, trends, vForum, virtualisation, virtualization, VMware
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
The future landscape of technology will be VUCA – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. That’s according to Peter Hinssen, one of Europe’s thought leaders on the impact of technology on our society.
Bill Chang, CEO of SingTel Group Enterprise, concurred as he outlined how his group is already developing the essential building blocks to equip businesses, education, transportation and healthcare in an increasingly urbanised future.
i.luminate 2012 by SingTel is now ongoing at the Resorts World Sentosa Convention Centre
The biennial i.Luminate business innovations forum is being held right now at the Resorts World Sentosa Convention Centre in Singapore.
Bill Chang, CEO, Group Enterprise, SingTel
More than 6,000 key IT managers and CIOs applied for 3,000 seats at the seminar which was put together by SingTel Group Enterprise and its “ecosystem” of partners for enterprise ICT solutions.
The forward-looking event examines the challenges and opportunities created by rapidly changing technologies and workforce trends which are redefining the business and technology landscape.
Peter Hinssen, Managing Partner, Across Technology
It also puts forth the real-world intelligent and scalable information & communications technology (ICT) breakthroughs that are critical to drive growth.
These ICT solutions will help businesses, consumers and governments sustain growth, enhance agility, increase productivity, lower costs and improve profitability.
Trends shaping the future
- “Everything-as-a-Service”
- Mobility
- Smart machines
- Social
- Big Data & Analytics
The morning session has just ended, and what I’ve heard so far have been informative and refreshing.
There were more than 60 renowned business and thought leaders at the keynotes this morning.
In the afternoon, there will be 16 discussion tracks and workshops, with an exhibition of some 200 ICT innovations at the many demo booths.
Architecture diagram for SURF (click to enlarge)
Tags:#ilum2012, i.Luminate, ICT, RWS, seminars, Singapore, SingTel, SURF
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Cost per victim goes up this year, with cybercriminals starting to focus their efforts on social networks and mobile devices.
2012 Norton Cybercrime Report, an annual study to understand how cybercrime affects consumers, and how the adoption and evolution of new technologies impacts people’s security. Click to read detailed report.
The annual Norton Cybercrime Report is one of the world’s largest consumer cybercrime studies, involving 13,000 adults from 24 countries.
“Personal email accounts often contain the keys to your online kingdom. Not only can criminals gain access to everything in your inbox, they can also reset your passwords for any other online site you may use by clicking the ‘forgot your password’ link, intercepting those emails and effectively locking you out of your own accounts,” says Effendy Ibrahim, Internet Safety Advocate & Director, Asia, Norton by Symantec.
The 2012 edition of the study tags the direct costs of global consumer cybercrime at US$110 billion over the past 12 months.
In Singapore, more than 1.4 million people fell victim to cybercrime in the same period, suffering approximately S$1.2 billion in direct financial losses.
This works out to an average of S$812 per victim in Singapore.
The equivalent global average direct cost per victim is only S$244.
Globally, every second, 18 adults become a victim of cybercrime, resulting in more than one-and-a-half million cybercrime victims each day.
Social networks and mobile devices
In Singapore, one in five online adults (20 percent) has been a victim of either social or mobile cybercrime, and 36 percent of social network users have been victims of social cybercrime.
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Tags:mobile devices, Norton, Norton Cybercrime Report, security, Singapore, social networks, Symantec
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
This year’s theme is “Have a safe journey” and features thought leaders such as Jim Reavis from CSA and Tim Grance from NIST, in a full day’s programme bringing CXO attendees through security issues surrounding Cloud Computing.
CloudSec 2012 was held at Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore on 15 August.
I sat through a panel discussion over lunch that shed some light on the thoughts that Reavis, Grance and Nicholas Tan (VMware) had on cloud security.
Jim Reavis, Co-founder & Executive Director Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
One opinion that may come as a surprise to many people is Reaves’ belief that the choice of whether a company should adopt a private, public or hybrid cloud should not be driven by security alone, which is what most people would use as the immediate and main consideration, if not the sole determinant for their decision.
He felt that security could be a red herring in deciding between the different types of cloud implementation.
Instead, the decision should be based on compliance (regulations on cloud use and location of data centres), performance (whether on-premise servers are needed to reduce latency) and legacy support (transition from existing IT architecture).
Timothy Grance, Senior Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Grance added that all the models are viable and the choice also involved the need for scale, which has to be balanced with the risk appetite of the organisation making the choice.
All the panelists were unanimous that, in reality, the considerations for security for cloud is no different from traditional systems, although the specific technology employed may be different.
Whether your systems are on a cloud or not, you would be facing threats, you still need to be vigilant, you still need to be rigorous about security, and you’d still need quality people to design and operate the system.
Last year’s CloudSec 2011 at The Sheraton Towers saw more than 300 participants examining the theme of “Have a vision not clouded by fear”.
This year, Trend Micro made the event bigger with more than 500 showing up at the Raffles City Convention Centre on 15 August.
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Tags:cloud, cloud computing, CloudSec, CSA, EDB, enterprise IT, hybrid cloud, IDA, NIST, private cloud, public cloud, security, Trend Micro, VMware
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