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VMware bolsters Southeast Asia & Korea leadership team

VMware has padded out its Southeast Asia and Korea executive team with three new hires as it builds on strong momentum in the region.

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Data center construction market fuelled by boom in IoT, VR and cloud

The market will expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.04% between 2018 and 2023, predicts the latest Market Research Future report.

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Smarter cities through cross-border and G2G collaborations

"As countries race ahead in their bid to accelerate smart city development through industrialisation, the environment and ultimately humanity is paying the price for this phenomenon."

SingleRAN Pro: Combining simplicity and openness for a 5G future

Huawei's SingleRAN Pro solution supposedly offers an open, simplified networking concept to help operators roll out commercial 5G networks.

Gartner recognizes Huawei's data center networking expertise

The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice analyzes more than 200,000 reviews across more than 300 markets posted to Gartner Peer Insights.

How Huawei aims to enhance IP networks

'We believe that the intelligent IP networks built with the four-engine series products can continuously empower users with business intelligence."

Nutanix introduces new cloud-native solutions for enterprises

Nutanix announced the general availability of its certified Kubernetes solution.

VMware to roll out cloud platform on AWS in Singapore

VMware has selected AsiaPac Distribution as its launch partner for VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Singapore.

True IDC & Tencent launch AI-enabled cloud platform in Thailand

The platform is designed to offer a complete range of cloud services to the public and private sectors.

Dell EMC’s six server market trends

As the evolution of cloud-based computing continues, it is important to know what’s ahead to stay ahead of the market.

Huawei FusionServer Pro built for 'intelligent transformation'

The next generation X86 servers draw on an intelligent acceleration engine, an intelligent management ending, and intelligent data center solutions for ‘diverse’ scenarios as transformation shifts from digital to intelligent.

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HFW deploys digital edge strategy on Equinix

Equinix announced that global law firm HFW has collaborated with Equinix to build out its digital edge in key markets including Dubai, London, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Paris.

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SEAX Singapore hosts new Epsilon PoP in Kuala Lumpur

The partnership will allow Epsilon customers and partners to onnect at the new PoP through Epsilon’s Infiny by Epsilon Software-Defined Networking (SDN) platform.

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Teradata expands as-a-service offerings for Advantage platform

Data intelligence company Teradata has announced three new cloud and on-premise solutions that are now integrated into its Teradata Vantage platform.

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Cisco leads Australian network infrastructure market - IDC

Despite a drop in router and wireless LAN, ethernet switches are quickly gaining popularity, according to the latest statistics from IDC.

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Eaton brings the world’s first UL certified UPS network card to A/NZ

The launch marks the expansion of Eaton’s cybersecurity program and collaboration with global safety science organisation UL.

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Whitepaper: How you can simplify compliance and SIEM with efficient logging

IT environments generate log messages with a variety of functions and significance to an organisation – but they’re only useful if they trigger the necessary responses.

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Colt DCS to build new hyperscale data centre in Osaka

The new data centre will be the company's third hyperscale facility in Japan, which it says is a direct response to surging demand.

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QNAP to leverage 2nd Gen Intel Xeon processors for data-centric workflows

The new processors are supposedly designed to support an expanding range of existing and emerging data centre and network workloads.

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VMware advances hybrid cloud operations and automation

VMware announced advancements across its integrated VMware vRealize cloud management platform.

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DNS attackers love legacy systems - but how much damage can they inflict?

DNS infrastructure is vulnerable in terms of its security, availability, and integrity. An attacker just has to exploit the Domain Name System (DNS) on legacy systems and they get free reign.

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Okta announces security layer for on-prem apps

For many organisations, the present and the future will be hybrid, with mission-critical applications residing both on-premises and across multi-cloud environments.

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Should you run your central log server in Docker?

Collecting logs can be especially important in a containerized environment, where you start and stop containers around the clock.

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An insider's tips on how to get more from your Splunk platform

Having the right tools is only half the battle, not until you can leverage them most effectively can you see the gains that properly managed data can provide.

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Lenovo & VMware know the secret of hyperconvergence - do you?

In this whitepaper, IDC analyses the benefits of hyperconverged solutions, and how they align with solutions from firms such as Lenovo and VMware.

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Pure Storage makes hybrid cloud play with new acquisition

The idea of hybrid cloud has immersed the world of IT since its inception, and now Pure Storage is accelerating its vision.

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Huawei’s AI fabric eclipses other data centre offerings

In an independent test run by The Tolly Group, Huawei’s data centre switch networking solutions outshone other vendors like Mellanox and Cisco.

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Study: Is it possible to detect breaches as they happen

Breaches often happen when businesses least expect them, causing slow reaction times and possibly catastrophic loss.

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Opinion: The growing importance of sustainability in data centres

Aruba's Alessandro Bruschini discusses why to carry on growing, the data centre industry will have to turn to green methods of energy consumption and production.

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AirTrunk raises $450m: Singapore hyperscale data center on the cards

Australian hyperscale data center specialist AirTrunk has raised SG$450 million in order to finance its expansion across Asia Pacific.

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Insider threats & breach reports: Why security needs more investment

Insider threats (those that come from within your organisation) are a serious concern - here's why.

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Whitepaper: What will losing your data cost you?

Do you know how much your data is worth, more importantly, what it will cost if it is lost?

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HCI’s surging growth props up global converged systems market

New research from the International Data Corporation (IDC) has found the global converged system market to be in good stead because of one category.

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Microsoft: The sky's the limit for your data with Cosmos DB

A modern Internet age with globally-distributed applications that must be fault-tolerant and scalable demands a high-concurrency, low-latency database model.

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How Dell EMC aims to advance its server portfolio

Dell EMC announced several advancements to Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

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Can your vulnerability assessments protect your organisation?

33% of enterprises surveyed are at a low maturity, conducting only limited assessments of selected assets.

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Equinix releases Azure Stack-as-a-Service in APAC

The hybrid cloud solution offers pre-configured, Microsoft validated systems, pre-installed into Equinix IBX data centres.

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Whitepaper: How classifying your log messages makes for happier sysadmins

Operating systems, applications, and network devices generate text messages of the events that happen to them.

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Dell EMC tops the data centre hardware & software market

Spending in the market is on the rise with the usual suspects like Dell EMC, Microsoft, HPE, Huawei, and Cisco at the top.

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Opinion: 4 reasons cloud and colocation providers are going renewable

Schneider Electric's John Powers shares the massive impact renewable energy is having on the data center industry.

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Public cloud set to be a US$214b market by year’s end

New Gartner research shows the public cloud market to be aggressively expanding both now and in the foreseeable future.

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AsiaPac to partner in VMware Cloud on AWS launch in Singapore

VMware has revealed AsiaPac Distribution to be its launch partner for VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Singapore.

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Survey shows organisations in the dark about shadow mining threat

To be successful and remain undetected, shadow mining depends on deliberately configuring security systems to function incorrectly.

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DOCOMO expands 5G trials with new partners

The trials will involve field partners, solution partners and DOCOMO as the provider of the 5G test network.

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Identity assurance - a refreshed approach to authentication

Today’s organisations should refresh their approach to authentication from a one-time event to continuous monitoring of users and what they are accessing. In broad terms, this is called identity assurance.

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Hawaiki expands US point-of-presence to Seattle

The Hawaiki submarine cable that connects Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Hawaii to the United States now has a new point of presence in Seattle.

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Whitepaper: The Mobile Risk Matrix - how exposed are you?

The proliferation of cloud services has increased the attack surface to include applications, devices, networks, and external web and content delivery methods.

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How using syslog-ng to store logs could help your business

Syslog-ng is a high-speed data processor that parses both structured and unstructured log messages.

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AlgoSec launches security and compliance management for multicloud

CloudFlow’s centralised management gives organisations visibility, risk and compliance analysis, and automated detection of misconfigurations.

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Rackspace seals agreement to provide multi-cloud in Japan

The American managed cloud computing company has teamed up with two other Japanese companies in what it says is a strategic alliance.

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Opinion: 6 steps for setting up a server room for your business

Schneider Electric's Kavita Manral discusses the modern server room and advice for setting up one for a business.

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Huawei commits data centre services to APAC ISPs

In addition to releasing a host of new products, Huawei has signed an MoU and publicly stated its data centre plans for the region.

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Are hard disk drives damaged by smoke recoverable?

The old saying ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’ is certainly an apt proverb in IT circles - ESET shares some advice for recovering smoke-damaged HDDs.

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Okta brings centralised identity security to servers

“Server access has traditionally relied on shared credentials that may never change, and that creates significant vulnerabilities for large or growing organisations.”

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Whitepaper: How to manage mobile risk in a perimeter-less work environment

Enabling mobility and the ability to access data seamlessly is a great development for enterprise productivity, but it causes a serious challenge to security teams.

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Security and mobility in a mobile-first world

Explore security, productivity, mobility, and what solutions are available to you. Here's how to move your organisation towards the mobile-first world, securely.

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5GN takes over Melbourne Data Centre for $5.7m

In a move it says is ‘another completion of the infrastructure puzzle’, 5G Networks (5GN) has announced the acquisition of Melbourne Data Centre (MDC).

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Experts and execs comment on Facebook data leak

“Tech companies are the custodians of user credentials and other personally identifiable information, a valuable resource in today's world.”

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Schneider and Cisco partner for new micro data centre options

The tech heavyweights have announced a partnership in an effort to tap into a burgeoning market specialising in lightweight solutions.

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Network security providers dominate cybersecurity - Canalys

Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet, all with a strong focus on network security products, outperformed the market, recording strong double-digit growth.

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No ETL? No worries, with SQL Server 2019's new data virtualisation

Unlike a typical data lake, there is no need to move data from where it lives when using data virtualisation, and this is a huge advantage over traditional ETL.

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What IT Managers Really Want: A Better Data center UI

Enterprise applications have often stuck to the traditional “Microsoft Outlook” grid-style administration interfaces for IT automation interfaces.

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Opinion: Three ‘must-haves’ for building a resilient edge

Schneider’s Steven Carlini shares his thoughts on computing at the edge – as well as some apt advice.

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HPE & Nutanix join forces to deliver hybrid cloud as a service

The two tech giants have partnered to offer a fully integrated solution that capitalises on the hybrid IT market.

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Lenovo’s data centre arm now official with Dicker Data NZ

Dicker Data has laid claim to an exclusive agreement with Lenovo’s Data Center Group and its entire range of solutions.

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Huawei unveils new hardware to ‘smarten up data centres’

Huawei has taken the covers off a new addition to its portfolio of servers that it says has been designed for the AI era.