Author: A. Asohan
Cloud considerations shift away from IT: Oracle
Cloud computing is shifting away from the IT departments and into business units as more organisations see it as a way to deliver services, according to Oracle Corp executives.
Sexy startups? ‘Old-school’ boys still rocking it
The ‘old-school’ boys may not be involved in the most glamorous startups, but they’re really rocking the ecosystem, writes A. Asohan.
First they came for old media, then …
The shocking suspension of weekly business newsmagazine The Heat has dire consequences for all citizens, but is however merely the latest in a series of attempts by the Administration to smother freedom of expression, writes A. Asohan.
Two MSC companies unite on customer experience front
Two MSC Malaysia companies – Chennai-headquartered multinational Servion and homegrown hero Brandt International – have formed a partnership to provide a full suite of solutions to take on the regional customer experience management market.
Week in Review: MSC Malaysia messaging goes amiss?
It has been one of those weeks marked more by what did not appear in Digital News Asia (DNA), rather than what did, writes A. Asohan.
New LA-KL filmmaking venture seeks to boost local ecosystem
Malaysian film producer Leon Tan and veteran Hollywood producer and financier Greg Coote have formed a joint venture which the duo believe will fill in the missing pieces and instil the discipline that are needed to make the country a regional movie-making hub.
Fast 500 companies: Only 1 from Malaysia, 3 from Singapore
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) has released its 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media and telecommunications companies, which saw only one Malaysian and three Singaporean companies making the grade.
VMware wants to get you out of ‘Hotel California’
Cloud and virtualisation specialist VMware Inc has introduced new initiatives that will extend its technology and philosophy beyond the server, and a new hybrid cloud service that it said can help customers get out of public cloud lock-in.
‘Shadow IT’ a pall on Malaysian IT landscape: VMware survey
The latest edition of the annual VMware Cloud Index showed that many business executives in Malaysia believe that their IT investments are not aligned with their companies’ business objectives, and that if their IT departments cannot deliver, they ‘will go elsewhere’ – that is, the public cloud.
