ICT Happening Updates Week 1 of July 2013

The most significant news for week 5 of June 2013 was nothing.

For this week / last week, here are / were the biggest news.
  • Oracle offers next level of Database-to-Storage performance to support new launched Oracle Database 12c.
  • Malaysia as vital R&D Hub for Exact’s cloud portfolio.
  • Daramalan College deploys Brocade Ethernet Fabric technology to deliver a more robust student experience.
  • WeChat exceeds 70 million registered user accounts milestone.
  • Oracle launches multi tenant and cloud nature database 12c.
  • Peter Tyroller takes over responsibility for Bosch in Asia Pacific.
  • Silver Peak offers Cloud Acceleration via SaaS.
  • Award-Winning New Pal Online Arrives in Malaysia.
  • IBM harnesses power of Big Data to improve Dutch flood control and water management systems.
  • Intel CMS simplifies digital advertising across multiple retail devices.



Kuala Lumpur, July 05, 2013 – Oracle Offers Next Level of Database-to-Storage Performance to Support New Launched Oracle Database 12c

Oracle Corporation, the world's leading IT solution provider, today unveils new database-to-storage system capabilities for customers using Oracle Database 12c with Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and Pillar Axiom storage systems.

Engineered together, Oracle Database 12c and Oracle storage systems can deliver a 65 percent reduction in administration, tuning and provisioning, and up to 12x data compression based on usage patterns. The new innovations are only available with Oracle storage.

The key point is that these three products are engineered together and hence it yield great optimization.

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Kuala Lumpur, 4 July 2013 – Malaysia as Vital R&D Hub for Exact’s Cloud Portfolio

Global software company, Exact will be expanding its regional development centre in Malaysia by adding headcount by as much as 50 percent this year. The regional centre will also receive a significant portion of Exact’s additional research and development funding for 2013 to finance the development of Exact’s new cloud offering.

Exact’s Asia Development Centre (ADC) houses Exact’s international software development team and serves as a regional hub for Southeast Asia. The Research and Development (R&D) division in the regional centre become an important focus point for the Dutch-based ERP company, as it fuels the expansion and development of Exact’s cloud portfolio, that will be internationally rolled out progressively in the coming months.

Hartmut Wagner, Managing Director of Cloud Solutions, Exact

Exact’s ERP solutions are designed for small to mid-sized businesses especially those in the manufacturing, wholesale distribution sector and professional services companies. Its clients in Malaysia include Secret Recipe, Slumberland Malaysia and Adecco.

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. July 3, 2013 –Daramalan College Deploys Brocade Ethernet Fabric Technology To Deliver a More Robust Student Experience

Building on the success of its campus LAN and core network upgrade, the Australian Capital Territory’s Daramalan College has become the first high school in Australia to deploy Brocade’s Ethernet fabric to support its IT operations. The decision to move to the third phase of its network infrastructure upgrade with Brocade has seen the college deploy Brocade® VDX® 6720 Switches and VCS® Fabric technology to replace its legacy server access infrastructure. The decision was driven by anticipated traffic growth from current applications, including real-time video streaming and the college’s administrative suite, as well as increased demand for higher network performance.

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 3 July, 2013 - WeChat Exceeds 70 Million Registered User Accounts Milestone

WeChat, a leading mobile social communication application, today announced that it has surpassed the 70 million registered user accounts milestone, demonstrating its global popularity. Connecting people in an innovative way, WeChat has consistently been the most downloaded mobile social application in numerous countries including India, Malaysia, Mexico and the Philippines.

To further boost its strong growth momentum, WeChat this month unveiled a new global campaign featuring football superstar Lionel Messi, who joins a glittering cast of musicians, artists, fashion icons and VIPs, to share their WeChat experience with fans and followers. As part of the new global initiative, fans can follow Messi’s official WeChat account, WeChat ID: MessiOfficial, which will include videos, voice messages and photos from Messi. In addition, a global TV commercial with his WeChat experience is launched today. The commercial features WeChat’s latest slogan “We Love. We Share. WeChat” and showcases how Messi connects to people he cares for and loves on WeChat.

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Kuala Lumpur, 02 July 2013 -Oracle Launches Multi Tenant and Cloud Nature Database 12c

Oracle Corporation, the world's No.1 database solution leading IT solution provider, today announces the latest generation of the world’s #1 database, Oracle Database 12c, is available for download from Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

The new Oracle Database 12c introduces a new multitenant architecture that simplifies the process of consolidating databases onto the cloud; enabling customers to manage many databases as one without changing their applications.

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Singapore, Jul 1, 2013 - Peter Tyroller takes over responsibility for Bosch in Asia Pacific

The supervisory board of the Bosch Group, a leading global supplier of technologies and services, appointed Peter Tyroller to take over the responsibility for Asia Pacific effective from July 1, 2013. Based in Shanghai, PR China, he will be responsible for Southeast Asia and all other countries in the Asia Pacific region.

“Asia Pacific will continue to be the main driver of growth for Bosch and I am honored to take over the responsibility for this important region,” commented Peter Tyroller on his new assignment. He has been a member of the Bosch board of management since 2006. Up to now, he has been responsible for marketing and sales, original equipment sales, and the Automotive Aftermarket division.

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Singapore. July 1, 2013 – Silver Peak Offers Cloud Acceleration by the Hour via Amazon Web Services

Silver Peak today announced that its cloud-ready WAN optimization software is now available in hourly increments directly from Amazon Web Services via the AWS Marketplace. Silver Peak’s new utility licensing complements perpetual and annual subscription licensing options to give customers a flexible and cost-effective solution for accelerating data to and from AWS.

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Malaysia, 28 June, 2013 - Award-Winning New Pal Online Arrives in Malaysia

Following the successful launch of New Gulong Online, the team in IAHGames Malaysia is in preparation to launch New PAL Online, which is a 3D Web-based MMORPG based on the Chinese PAL series from Softstar Entertainment in Taiwan. Licensed and fully developed by Dream Square, a renowned game developer based in Shanghai, China, New PAL Online has won almost all of the Most Anticipated Game awards in the Chinese game community since its debut.

IAHGames has HQ in Singapore, had recently formed a Malaysian-based operations team.

New PAL Online game had conducted its closed beta test from June 13 till June 20, 2013. The response and feedback received have been really good

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - 25 Jun 2013 - IBM harnesses power of Big Data to improve Dutch flood control and water management systems

IBM announced the launch of Digital Delta, a breakthrough innovation program that will harness insights from Big Data to transform flood control and the management of the entire Dutch water system.

The program is in collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat (the Dutch Ministry for Water), local Water Authority Delfland, Deltares Science Institute and the University of Delft.

Digital Delta will investigate how to integrate and analyze water data from a wide range of existing data sources. These include precipitation measurements, water level and water quality monitors, levee sensors, radar data, model predictions as well current and historic maintenance data from sluices, pumping stations, locks and dams.

At Digital Delta's core is an intelligent, cloud-based system built on IBM’s Intelligent Water software and Smarter Water Resource Management solution including consulting expertise.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 20, 2013 –Intel CMS Simplifies Digital Advertising Across Multiple Retail Devices

Digital signage is increasingly being integrated into every retail device consumers touch from ATMs and point-of-sale terminals to interactive kiosks and vending machines. In order to amplify the power of marketing programs with consistent messages across multiple retail devices, Intel Corporation announced today the availability of the Intel® Retail Client Manager (Intel® RCM). Intel RCM is a simple and cost-effective content management system (CMS) for digital signage solutions.

Industry experts estimate content management systems will reach 35 million units at a cumulative annual growth rate of 40 percent by 2017.

Digital signage solutions based on Intel RCM are available through Avnet Embedded and Seneca. Subscription base price for Intel RCM is $16.95 per month, per player billed annually.

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