Author: Edwin Yapp

Digerati50: Playing midwife to new startups
Digital News Asia (DNA) continues a weekly series that profiles the top 50 influencers, movers and shakers who are helping shape Malaysia’s Digital Economy. These articles are from Digerati50, a special print publication released in January 2014. For information on customised reprints of Digerati50, email [email protected].
Media fragmentation an opportunity for advertisers: TNS
Media fragmentation has often been described as one of the biggest brand challenges of the digital age for marketers, but it is also a great opportunity for brand owners and creative agencies, according to market research firm TNS.
Enterprises still facing ‘rogue IT’ challenges: Red Hat
Information technology (IT) departments are still struggling to make their organisations more agile and flexible to better serve their business counterparts, according to open source cloud vendor Red Hat Inc.
The colourful life of Larry Ellison, and his resignation
Last week, the enterprise IT world got a shock when Oracle Corp announced that Larry Ellison, chief executive officer (CEO) of the company he cofounded, will step down after being at the helm for 37 years. Edwin Yapp recounts some of the eccentric moments in his life. 
Hedging its bets, VMware embraces brave new IT world
As the dust settles on the recently-concluded VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, one thing is clear: Virtualisation and cloud vendor VMware Inc is going deeper into the software-defined-data-centre (SDDC) while trying to relax its hitherto closed approach to the cloud ecosystem. Edwin Yapp reports.
New Apple wares excite … only up to a point: Analysts
A week after the much-awaited launch of Apple’s new announcements, the industry is still abuzz and busy analysing what its impact is on the consumer tech ecosystem. Edwin Yapp checks out what analysts have to say and puts in his two-cents worth too.
Digerati50: The humble dotcom survivor
Digital News Asia (DNA) continues a weekly series that profiles the top 50 influencers, movers and shakers who are helping shape Malaysia’s Digital Economy. These articles are from Digerati50, a special print publication released in January 2014. For information on customised reprints of Digerati50, email [email protected].
Malaysia’s big data policy framework ready soon
Malaysia’s ambitions to make the country a big data and analytics hub for the region will be guided by a Policy Framework document that is due to be completed and presented to the Prime Minister by the third quarter of this year, according to a senior Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) official.
Digerati50: Inspiring entrepreneurship via the airwaves
Digital News Asia (DNA) continues a weekly series that profiles the top 50 influencers, movers and shakers who are helping shape Malaysia’s Digital Economy. These articles are from Digerati50, a special print publication released in January 2014. For information on customised reprints of Digerati50, email [email protected].
Startup lessons from OpenFlow creator Martin Casado
Nicira cofounder Martin Casado took time out from his busy schedule during the recently concluded VMware 2014 conference to speak to Edwin Yapp, sharing the lessons he learnt during his days as an entreprenuer.  
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