IT News Week 5 Nov 2017

For IT News Week 3 Nov 2017 - Part 2.
  • PR - Nov 30, 2017 - OPPO Malaysia is partnering with Swarovski for a limited edition F5 GB phone case that is beaded with crystals
  • PR - Nov 29, 2017 - U Mobile Customers Enjoy Most Unbeatable Unlimited Mobile Experience With Unlimited Hero Postpaid P99
  • PR - Nov 29, 2017 - Western Digital to Invest Resources into RISC-V Development
  • PR - Nov 29, 2017 - Broadway Video Ready for 4K Demand with Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform
  • PR - Nov 28, 2017 - McAfee Announces That It Will Acquire Skyhigh Networks To Strengthen Hold On Endpoint and Cloud Security
  • PR - Nov 28, 2017 - PIKOM Elects New Council at 31st AGM (2017-2018 TERM)
  • PR - Nov 27, 2017 - Shopee Celebrates Birthday With About 80 Million Downloads Across the Region
  • PR - Nov 27, 2017 - HLB ConnectFirst Provides Single Sign-On Access to Advanced Banking Transaction Solutions
  • PR - Nov 27, 2017 - OATS Studios to Premiere ADAM: The Prophet at SIGGRAPH Asia on Nov 29, 2017
  • PR - Nov 23, 2017 - OutSystems Names Singtel Group Enterprise and FWD Insurance as 2017 Innovation Award Winners at NextStep Conference
  • PR - Nov 17, 2017 - Victor Gureghian Baez Joins Carbon Black to Lead Worldwide Channel Sales


PR - Nov 30, 2017 - OPPO Malaysia is partnering with Swarovski for a limited edition F5 GB phone case that is beaded with crystals

In conjunction with rewarding the O-fans, OPPO Malaysia has specially designed a limited edition gift box that comes with a special gift. The company has finally revealed that the special gift is the OPPO F5 6GB phone case that is encrusted with premium Swarovski crystals. First 1000 lucky O-fans will be receiving the eye-catching red limited edition gift box that comes with the phone case when they pre-order the OPPO F5 6GB (Red Edition) from 6th December 2017, 12.30pm.

Min Chen, the selfie icon of F5 6GB

OPPO F5 6GB is equipped with a combination of 6GB RAM + 64GB ROM. Users no longer need to worry again about running out of memory or storage. On top of that, it also comes with an Octa-core processor which is coupled with 6 GB RAM to provide an even higher performance speed to ensure that we bring the best gaming experience to the user.


PR - Nov 29, 2017 - U Mobile Customers Enjoy Most Unbeatable Unlimited Mobile Experience With Unlimited Hero Postpaid P99

U Mobile today launched Unlimited HERO P99, its latest postpaid plan. At just RM99 per month, customers will enjoy unlimited data with no speed cap, free 30GB data for hotspot or for sharing with up to 3 ‘Share 20’ member lines as well as unlimited local calls to all networks.

In short, Unlimited HERO P99 customers will no longer have to worry about how much data they are using to stream, browse, social share or chat as everything is unlimited!

PR - Nov 29, 2017 - Western Digital to Invest Resources into RISC-V Development

Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today at the 7th RISC-V Workshop that the company intends to lead the industry transition toward open, purpose-built compute architectures to meet the increasingly diverse application needs of a data-centric world. In his keynote address, Western Digital’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink expressed the company’s commitment to help lead the advancement of data-centric compute environments through the work of the RISC-V Foundation.

RISC-V is an open and scalable compute architecture that will enable the diversity of Big Data and Fast Data applications and workloads proliferating in core cloud data centers and in remote and mobile systems at the edge.

Western Digital’s leadership role in the RISC-V initiative is significant in that it aims to accelerate the advancement of the technology and the surrounding ecosystem by transitioning its own consumption of processors – over one billion cores per year – to RISC-V.

PR - Nov 29, 2017 - Broadway Video Ready for 4K Demand with Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), has expanded on its long-standing relationship with Broadway Video, a global media and entertainment production company, with the installation of an all-flash Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G series.

Hitachi’s VSP G series will enhance Broadway Video’s 4K offerings and transform internal operations by allowing quick-turn, efficient and cost-effective production, post-production and delivery of television shows and commercials. Powered by the flash-optimized Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) and backed by a 100% data availability guarantee, the VSP lineup delivers performance, resiliency and workload scalability for even the most challenging of digital environments, allowing Broadway Video to integrate the right technology necessary to expand and meet the digital media production industry’s changing needs.

With the expansion of fully 4K digital production in media and entertainment; scalable capacity, reliably consistent performance and 24x7 uptime will be critically important. 4K TV is ultra high-definition (UHD) television, offering four times the resolution of 1080p true HD video, requiring higher bandwidth and associated infrastructure for the production, broadcast and direct-to-consumer OTT (over-the-top) streaming distribution of video content. A number of television, gaming equipment and mobile phone providers already provide 4K-ready consumer equipment.

Of interest to content producers and distributors who follow and use the latest broadcast and streaming technology developments, please find attached and below, an item about Broadway Video’s installation of an all-flash virtual storage (VSP G series) solution from Hitachi Vantara. Broadway Video is a US-based company, and Hitachi technology is used by them for production and uninterrupted execution for Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Seth Meyers, amongst other programmes.

The fully 4K delivered Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, an Embassy Row production, recently transitioned to Netflix and will be supported by Hitachi solution’s seamless delivery by allowing quick-turn, efficient and cost-effective production, post-production and delivery of the TV show, that expands and meets the digital media production industry’s changing needs for fully-digital media workflow across TV networks to Netflix to Hulu.

PR - Nov 28, 2017 - McAfee Announces That It Will Acquire Skyhigh Networks To Strengthen Hold On Endpoint and Cloud Security

McAfee, the world's largest, pure-play cybersecurity organisation has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Skyhigh Networks, the leader in the cloud access security broker(CASB) market segment. This marks the first move by McAfee to accelerate its growth and innovation since its independence eight months ago.

The planned acquisition will entail the following:
  • Allowing customers to modernise their cybersecurity environments and protect their data as it migrates to the cloud
  • Provide the cybersecurity architecture of the future, with endpoint and cloud as the critical control points
  • Supported by the security operations center with actionable threat intelligence, analytics and orchestration, and enabled by an open ecosystem
  • Skyhigh will benefit from McAfee’s global scale and integrate into McAfee’s broad and deep product portfolio to even better protect customers

PR - Nov 28, 2017 - PIKOM Elects New Council at 31st AGM (2017-2018 TERM)

The National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM) announced the appointment of its new Chairman and Office Bearers as well as Councillors for the 2017-2018 term following its recently-held 31st Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Ganesh Kumar Bangah who was previously Deputy Chairman, was elected as the 18th PIKOM Chairman in the 31-year-old history of the association. Ganesh is also Chairman of e-Commerce Malaysia (an initiative under PIKOM).



No Name Position Company Term
1 GANESH KUMAR BANGAH Chairman COMMERCE DOTASIA VENTURES (M) SDN BHD 2017-2018
2 DANNY LEE 李 振 雄 DEPUTY CHAIRMAN EPSON MALAYSIA SDN BHD 2017-2018
3 SEAN SEAH 谢 溢 高 SECRETARY BIMBIT.COM SDN BHD 2017-2018
4 ONG CHIN SEONG 王 振 雄 TREASURER POWERWARE SYSTEMS SDN BHD 2017-2018
5 CHIN CHEE SEONG 陈 棋 雄 IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN GALASYS SOLUTIONS (MSC) SDN BHD 2017-2018
6 STAN SINGH - JIT COUNCILLOR IRONHORSE ASIA SDN BHD 2017-2019
7 DR DZAHARUDIN MANSOR COUNCILLOR MICROSOFT (M) SDN BHD 2017-2019
8 DATUK TEOH ENG KEE 拿 督 张 永 基 COUNCILLOR EKTECH COMMUNICATIONS SDN BHD 2017-2019
9 ONG KHUNG TATT (KT ONG) 王 康 达 COUNCILLOR DELL GLOBAL BUSINESS CENTRE SDN BHD 2017-2019
10 ALEX LIEW 刘 润 杰 COUNCILLOR GLOCOMP SYSTEMS (M) SDN BHD 2016-2018
11 DATO' SERI IVAN TEH 拿 督 斯 里 郑 凯 文 COUNCILLOR ADV FUSIONEX SDN BHD 2016-2018
12 ANTHONY RAJA DEVADOSS COUNCILLOR KELLY SERVICES (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD 2016-2018
13 JEFFREY OOI 黄 文 祥 COUNCILLOR CELCOM MOBILE SDN BHD 2016-2018

PR - Nov 27, 2017 - Shopee Celebrates Birthday With About 80 Million Downloads Across the Region

Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, celebrates its anniversary after another year of marked growth. In just two years, Shopee has seen significant growth in its seven markets, with about 80 million downloads across the region, and over 180 million active listings by more than 4 million sellers. To date, there are about 5,000 leading brands and distributors. Since launching in 2015, the Shopee team has also expanded to a total of over 2,500 employees.


Left to Right:

  • Lee Jing Huan, Senior Promotion Executive, Pureen Malaysia; 
  • Elie Lim Thiam Hui, E-commerce Manager, Mentholatum; 
  • Elaine Tan , Commercial Manager, Yadah Malaysia; 
  • Syaful Izwan Mohamed, Head, Fuel Marketing, Marketing Department, Retail Business Division, Petronas; 
  • Ian Ho , Regional Managing Director Shopee Malaysia; 
  • Tay Gim Soon, Group Chief Operating Officer, PayNet; 
  • How Lih Ren, Head of iTelco, Digi; 
  • William Tan, Sales Director, Brightstar Distribution (OnePlus); 
  • Ameeer Shahzman, Executive, Partners Management, B Infinite;
  • Andy Chin, Head of Marketing, M.R D.I.Y. Malaysia.

As part of its birthday celebration, Shopee will be holding a birthday sale from 1 to 14 December, featuring massive promotions across over 6 million products. Shoppers can look forward to Shocking Sale flash deals, Upsized Mall Highlights, 12.12 Mega Deals, and many more exciting highlights. Attractive prizes will also be up for grabs, including over RM500,000 worth of Beat the Clock vouchers, a trip for two to Honolulu worth RM15,000, and an iPhone X worth RM5,500. Official partners, including Maybank, CIMB, Public Bank, RHB, Ambank, Citibank, Petronas, Digi, Maxis, B Infinite, FPX, and Photobook, will also be joining the celebration with their own exclusive promotions for Shopee users.

PR - Nov 27, 2017 - HLB ConnectFirst Provides Single Sign-On Access to Advanced Banking Transaction Solutions

The newly launched Hong Leong ConnectFirst (HL ConnectFirst) is set to offer single sign-on access to a comprehensive suite of advanced cash, trade and foreign exchange solutions for corporate, commercial and SME customers of Hong Leong Bank Berhad (“HLB”) and Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad (“HLISB”).


(L-R) : Mr. Loo Eng Hock, Transaction Banking Head, Business & Corporate Banking of Hong Leong Bank (HLB); Mr. Domenic Fuda, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Hong Leong Bank (HLB); Mr. Yow Kuan Tuck, Managing Director, Business & Corporate Banking of Hong Leong Bank (HLB)


HL ConnectFirst is in line with the bank’s aspirations to embed digital efficiency in business processes, and is infused with innovative features designed to assist business clients in managing their working capital requirements.

This channel provides high levels of customisation on a comprehensive platform. It is able to cater for differing needs of whole range of business clients while at the same time provides seamless customer experience.

Business clients will have access to a full suite of transaction banking services, including account management, payables, receivables, liquidity management, trade, treasury management, e-investment and e-procurement.

PR - Nov 27, 2017 - OATS Studios to Premiere ADAM: The Prophet at SIGGRAPH Asia on Nov 29, 2017

Unity Technologies, creator of the world’s most popular creation engine that has reached more than 3 billion devices to date this year, announced today that ADAM: The Prophet will premiere at SIGGRAPH Asia at 11p.m.PT on November 29, and will be available to watch worldwide on YouTube shortly after. ADAM: The Prophet is the next short film in the visually stunning series, created and produced by Academy Award-nominated director Neill Blomkamp’s OATS Studios using Unity 2017. A trailer showing the ADAM story to-date is available to watch today.

“Unity 2017 is a real-time production powerhouse, it was natural that we’d use it to build the next installment in the ADAM franchise,” said Chris Harvey, VFX Supervisor, OATS Studios. “SIGGRAPH is a place where artists gather to learn the latest innovations and advances in the world of art and design. We’re excited to share the breakthrough techniques that we used to make ADAM: The Prophet.”

PR - Nov 23, 2017 - OutSystems Names Singtel Group Enterprise and FWD Insurance as 2017 Innovation Award Winners at NextStep Conference

OutSystems announced the third set of winners of the 2017 Innovation Awards at its recent NextStep conference in Chicago. The company recognised Singtel and FWD Insurance alongside six other customers from U.S. and Mexico for their creative use of the OutSystems platform to build innovative applications and transform their business. Applicants were evaluated based on business impact and measurable IT benefits they achieved with their initiatives.

Following is an overview of the two award winners in the Asia Pacific region and the applications they built. Singtel, Asia's leading communications technology group, won the Global Enterprise IT Transformation Award for creating a platform called Gravity for use by Singtel and its subsidiaries NCS and Optus. Gravity now serves internal IT, partners, and customers on one core IT software delivery platform as part of Singtel’s ONE IT initiative.

FWD Insurance, a leading insurer in the Philippines, won the Responding to a Unique Business Challenge Award. A single FWD Insurance developer completed a digital insurance platform in just 21 days, meeting an external deadline and providing Philippines consumers peace of mind during holiday season following terrorist attacks.

PR - Nov 17, 2017 - Victor Gureghian Baez Joins Carbon Black to Lead Worldwide Channel Sales

Carbon Black, has named Victor Gureghian Baez as its new Vice President of Worldwide Channels. Baez will lead channel revenue and growth as well as expansion of the company’s global reseller footprint and incident response program as Carbon Black continues to accelerate its Predictive Security Cloud rollout.

Baez has more than two decades of experience in international channel enablement and growth for large global enterprises. Before joining Carbon Black, Baez led Microsoft’s worldwide distribution and indirect channel efforts. Baez has also held sales management roles for Belkin in Latin America and for Netgear in Latin America, Asia Pacific and China and Tech Data in the Americas and Europe.

Over the year, Carbon Black has expanded its worldwide channel footprint with more than 90% of all sales driven through the channel. In addition, the company has also ticked several channel milestones including:
  • Strengthened partner portfolio with 75 MSSP/IR partners worldwide.
  • More than 50% of Carbon Black MSSPs have been featured in the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant, including IBM and Secureworks
  • With our IR partnerships Carbon Black technology has helped perform a combined 340 incident response engagements this year.
  • Carbon Black was recognized with a five-star rating from The Channel Company’s CRN® 2017 Partner Program Guide and was also listed on CRN’s “2017 Security 100: 20 Coolest Endpoint Security Vendors.”

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