Author: Edwin Yapp
Reengineering NSN back to the black
Nokia Solutions and Netowrks (NSN) confident it can grow its market share in today’s highly competitive wireless infrastructure landscape, especially since it reengineered itself to be much more focused on the mobile broadband business in the past two years, according to its top regional executive.
Big data benefits recognised in Asia but potential untapped: EIU study
Corporations across Asia have had limited success in implementing big data practices, with only a third saying that they are in an advanced stage of implementation and more than half saying they have made little or no progress, according to a new survey released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
ICT adoption: Vendors, SMEs need a new paradigm
SMEs are often perceived as being resistant to adopting technology, and for good reasons too: Vendors overpromise their proposition, SMEs lack expertise when dealing with software implementation, and these companies are generally cost-conscious, according to a panel discussion last week.
Don’t let complacency and bureaucracy jeopardise IT security
Edwin Yapp shares his thoughts on why complacency and bureaucracy can be detrimental to national IT security.
Effective CIOs naturally align business to IT: Panel
Edwin Yapp wraps up the CIO Leaders Summit held in Singapore last week with a look on what makes an effective CIO.
Regulation: The 'bogeyman' of cloud adoption
Data privacy has been cited as one of the major impediments standing in the way of cloud computing but the issue, while significant and important, may just be a convenient bogey against its adoption, says a senior Workday Inc executive.
Cloud should go beyond cost savings, says SAP
The conversation within the industry about cloud computing should no longer be about lowering costs of IT infrastructure but about enabling businesses to attain better agility and consequently help them raise their overall business value, argues German software giant SAP AG.
NetApp finally appoints country head for Malaysia, Brunei
A former senior executive at Schneider Electric has taken over the reins as the country manager of NetApp Malaysia and Brunei, according to an industry insider familiar with the matter.
Amazon power startups with its cloud services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AWS Activate, a structured package the company claims would help startups gain access to technology resources and enable them to get started easily and scale as their business grows.
WatchGuard rides UTM wave to growth in Asia
Unified threat managment (UTM) security vendor WatchGuard has grown in Asia riding the UTM wave and its CEO tells Edwin Yapp why more is expected out of this security segment in the years to come.
