For IT News Week 5 of Jun 2018.
Jul 5, 2018 - Common Ground partners with child enrichment centre Curious Child
Malaysia’s coworking industry leader Common Ground today announced its partnership with child enrichment centre Curious Child as it opened its fifth Klang Valley venue. Founded by none other than beauty queen and working mother Carey Ng, Curious Child is attached to Common Ground’s latest 21,000 square feet coworking venue in popular neighbourhood shopping centre Citta Mall in Ara Damansara.
At present, there are not many office spaces that provide childcare facilities or services which causes women to give up one’s career in order to care for one’s children. Seizing this opportunity, Common Ground’s latest partnership with Curious Child is aimed at providing the support needed by working mothers who struggle to manage the demands of both one’s professional career and domestic responsibilities.
The child enrichment centre offers a multitude of services including infant care, enrichment programs, prep school programs and the “drop and work” program.
Jul 5, 2018 - VMware Lays Out New Network Vision to Accelerate Malaysia’s Digital Adoption
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) launched the Virtual Cloud Network, a new network approach that will empower businesses in Malaysia to achieve their digital transformation goals by unlocking value from today’s networking technologies amidst an increasingly complex environment.
With applications and data now residing everywhere, companies can no longer rely solely on a hardware-based network deployed inside their data center to run their business. With a Virtual Cloud Network, businesses will be able to create an end-to-end software-based network architecture that can deliver services to applications and data irregardless of wherever they are located.
The Virtual Cloud Network will be able to operate at global scale from edge-to-edge and deliver consistent, pervasive connectivity and intrinsic security for apps and data that is also independent of underlying physical infrastructure or location.
The VMware NSX networking and security portfolio includes:
Subex, a leading telecom analytics solution provider, has won a multi-million-dollar contract with Optus, Australia to implement its ROC Network Asset Management solution.
Optus is one of the largest telecom operators in Australia and a fully owned subsidiary of Singtel. They offer mobile, enterprise and wholesale services and home entertainment, exclusive content including EPL.
Subex was selected after successfully demonstrating its strong domain expertise and unique value proposition while showcasing the superiority of its solution. As part of the deal, Subex’s ROC Network Asset Management will enable Optus to control all of its existing and new network investments through a well-defined network efficiency framework. This implementation will further help Optus to protect their network investments, improve utilisation visibility and provide better financial controls.
Jul 4, 2018 - ThreatMetrix Summer ’18 Release Extends Product Offerings to Support 3DS 2.0 Risk Decisions and Adds Champion Challenger Capability
ThreatMetrix®, A LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Company, today announced the Summer ’18 Release, which includes latest product innovations such as a new 3D Secure 2.0 offering and Champion Challenger capabilities:
ACG Foundation Limited has announced that their new crowd-funding platform, called ACG Network, will be set to launch for Spring 2019.
ACG Network will bring magnificent changes to the Asian (including Japan) digital content industry. ACG Network will focus on developing the animation, comic and game industry with its introduction of a new blockchain technology, the first of its kind.
The platform allows content creators to source funds via crowdfunding where fans can even propose their own ideas.
The platform brings together both creators and fans.
The platform includes:
Dell is proud to announce it has teamed up with Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and The Wasp” film coming to cinemas in Malaysia on 4 July. With similar fan bases, the two companies will come together to bring excitement around technology into pop culture.
Marvel Studios enlisted VFX vendors, several of which utilised a breadth of Dell technologies, including Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, and Dell Precision workstations, as the core infrastructure to provide the immense computing power and storage capacity necessary for visual effects designers to bring the movie’s characters and places to life.
Jun 3, 2018 - NEM Malaysia Opens Largest Blockchain Centre in Asia
NEM Malaysia has announced the opening of the NEM Blockchain Centre (NBC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which serves as a learning centre, incubator and accelerator for organisations in Asia keen to explore blockchain technology and its applications in multiple industries.
With almost 11,000-square-feet of space, the NBC is the largest of its kind in the region that is fully operated by a blockchain technology organisation. NBC will house the NEM Blockchain Innovation Lab, a headquarters for research and development as well as regional support for organisations interested in using the NEM platform within their IT infrastructures. It also serves as a co-working space, with several Malaysian companies already using its services and facilities for blockchain-related learning and knowledge-sharing events. Malaysian organisations can also leverage the NEM network and technology to develop blockchain solutions for the Malaysian economy while having access to training events, service providers and technical support.
Jun 29, 2018 - Trend Micro Recognized As End Point Security Market Leader by Forrester
Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has been named a market leader in endpoint security by independent research firm, Forrester – having been judged to have the highest score in the “current offering” category among the 15 evaluated vendors, given a 5 out of a possible 5 score for the strategy category and among the second-highest scores in the market presence category.
According to The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q2 2018 report, Trend Micro continues to offer the most flexible and fully featured suite on the market and maintains its position as a market leader with continuous evolution of its prevention and detection engines along with best-in-class suite capabilities.
Trend Micro’s endpoint security technology is driven by its XGen™ approach: a cross-generational blend of threat defense techniques that intelligently applies the right technology at the right time, resulting in more effective and efficient protection against a full range of threats.
- Jul 5, 2018 - Common Ground partners with child enrichment centre Curious Child
- Jul 5, 2018 - VMware Lays Out New Network Vision to Accelerate Malaysia’s Digital Adoption
- Jul 5, 2018 - Subex bags multi-million-dollar contract from Optus
- Jul 4, 2018 - ThreatMetrix Summer ’18 Release Extends Product Offerings to Support 3DS 2.0 Risk Decisions and Adds Champion Challenger Capability
- Jul 4, 2018 - Revolutionary digital platform that brings aspiring creators’ work to the world
- Jul 3, 2018 - Dell Brings Tech to New Heights with Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and The Wasp”
- Jun 3, 2018 - NEM Malaysia Opens Largest Blockchain Centre in Asia
- Jun 29, 2018 - Trend Micro Recognized As End Point Security Market Leader by Forrester
Jul 5, 2018 - Common Ground partners with child enrichment centre Curious Child
Malaysia’s coworking industry leader Common Ground today announced its partnership with child enrichment centre Curious Child as it opened its fifth Klang Valley venue. Founded by none other than beauty queen and working mother Carey Ng, Curious Child is attached to Common Ground’s latest 21,000 square feet coworking venue in popular neighbourhood shopping centre Citta Mall in Ara Damansara.
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| Curious Child opens its first venue next to Common Ground Ara Damansara |
At present, there are not many office spaces that provide childcare facilities or services which causes women to give up one’s career in order to care for one’s children. Seizing this opportunity, Common Ground’s latest partnership with Curious Child is aimed at providing the support needed by working mothers who struggle to manage the demands of both one’s professional career and domestic responsibilities.
The child enrichment centre offers a multitude of services including infant care, enrichment programs, prep school programs and the “drop and work” program.
Jul 5, 2018 - VMware Lays Out New Network Vision to Accelerate Malaysia’s Digital Adoption
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) launched the Virtual Cloud Network, a new network approach that will empower businesses in Malaysia to achieve their digital transformation goals by unlocking value from today’s networking technologies amidst an increasingly complex environment.
With applications and data now residing everywhere, companies can no longer rely solely on a hardware-based network deployed inside their data center to run their business. With a Virtual Cloud Network, businesses will be able to create an end-to-end software-based network architecture that can deliver services to applications and data irregardless of wherever they are located.
The Virtual Cloud Network will be able to operate at global scale from edge-to-edge and deliver consistent, pervasive connectivity and intrinsic security for apps and data that is also independent of underlying physical infrastructure or location.
The VMware NSX networking and security portfolio includes:
- VMware NSX Data Center, one of the industry’s most widely deployed network virtualization platform for the enterprise data center, adopted by more than 4,500 customers globally.
- VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud, the industry-leading Software-Defined Wide Area Networking solution that combines the economics and flexibility of the best real-time network overlay with the deployment speed, scale and automation of cloud-delivered services.
- VMware NSX Cloud provides consistent networking and security for applications running in both private VMware-based data centers and natively in public clouds.
- VMware NSX Hybrid Connect enables customers to solve one of the biggest challenges with hybrid cloud– consistent networking.
Subex, a leading telecom analytics solution provider, has won a multi-million-dollar contract with Optus, Australia to implement its ROC Network Asset Management solution.
Optus is one of the largest telecom operators in Australia and a fully owned subsidiary of Singtel. They offer mobile, enterprise and wholesale services and home entertainment, exclusive content including EPL.
Subex was selected after successfully demonstrating its strong domain expertise and unique value proposition while showcasing the superiority of its solution. As part of the deal, Subex’s ROC Network Asset Management will enable Optus to control all of its existing and new network investments through a well-defined network efficiency framework. This implementation will further help Optus to protect their network investments, improve utilisation visibility and provide better financial controls.
Jul 4, 2018 - ThreatMetrix Summer ’18 Release Extends Product Offerings to Support 3DS 2.0 Risk Decisions and Adds Champion Challenger Capability
ThreatMetrix®, A LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Company, today announced the Summer ’18 Release, which includes latest product innovations such as a new 3D Secure 2.0 offering and Champion Challenger capabilities:
- ThreatMetrix 3DS 2.0 Solution for Enhanced Risk Decisioning
New risk engine API has been launched specifically to support 3DS 2.0 environments. 3DS 2.0 speeds up authentication and improves security by enabling merchants and issuers to exchange more data, (such as device, channel, identity and transaction information), to verify a cardholder’s identity in registration flows and to ensure that the true card holder is performing the transaction. The new solution will also enable enhanced payment authorization decisions with no additional user input, even when it is the first time that user has interacted with 3DS 2.0, allowing friction-free experience. - ThreatMetrix Champion Challenger
The ThreatMetrix Champion Challenger is a new feature to help risk analysts and policy editors run a new or modified “challenger” policy alongside a live “champion” policy. Risk analysts and policy editors often have little evidence to know in advance whether policy changes will enhance or diminish fraud detection. ThreatMetrix Champion Challenger removes speculation and risk associated with policy changes by enabling policy editors to test the effectiveness of new capabilities and understand the impact of policy changes before deploying them into an active environment.
ACG Foundation Limited has announced that their new crowd-funding platform, called ACG Network, will be set to launch for Spring 2019.
ACG Network will bring magnificent changes to the Asian (including Japan) digital content industry. ACG Network will focus on developing the animation, comic and game industry with its introduction of a new blockchain technology, the first of its kind.
The platform allows content creators to source funds via crowdfunding where fans can even propose their own ideas.
The platform brings together both creators and fans.
The platform includes:
- ACG Network Wallet
As part of the AGCN Network ecosystem, ACG Network issues exclusive platform Token-CATT (Content Aggregation Transfer Token) that makes transactions with cryptocurrency possible. - Voting system
Full transparency system between creators and ACG members in real time.
Dell is proud to announce it has teamed up with Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and The Wasp” film coming to cinemas in Malaysia on 4 July. With similar fan bases, the two companies will come together to bring excitement around technology into pop culture.
Marvel Studios enlisted VFX vendors, several of which utilised a breadth of Dell technologies, including Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, and Dell Precision workstations, as the core infrastructure to provide the immense computing power and storage capacity necessary for visual effects designers to bring the movie’s characters and places to life.
Jun 3, 2018 - NEM Malaysia Opens Largest Blockchain Centre in Asia
NEM Malaysia has announced the opening of the NEM Blockchain Centre (NBC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which serves as a learning centre, incubator and accelerator for organisations in Asia keen to explore blockchain technology and its applications in multiple industries.
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| NEM Innovation centre and coworking space at Glo Damansara KL |
With almost 11,000-square-feet of space, the NBC is the largest of its kind in the region that is fully operated by a blockchain technology organisation. NBC will house the NEM Blockchain Innovation Lab, a headquarters for research and development as well as regional support for organisations interested in using the NEM platform within their IT infrastructures. It also serves as a co-working space, with several Malaysian companies already using its services and facilities for blockchain-related learning and knowledge-sharing events. Malaysian organisations can also leverage the NEM network and technology to develop blockchain solutions for the Malaysian economy while having access to training events, service providers and technical support.
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| Steven Chia, Council member (5th from Left); Lance Cheang, Program Director (6th from left) and KL team members |
Jun 29, 2018 - Trend Micro Recognized As End Point Security Market Leader by Forrester
Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has been named a market leader in endpoint security by independent research firm, Forrester – having been judged to have the highest score in the “current offering” category among the 15 evaluated vendors, given a 5 out of a possible 5 score for the strategy category and among the second-highest scores in the market presence category.
According to The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q2 2018 report, Trend Micro continues to offer the most flexible and fully featured suite on the market and maintains its position as a market leader with continuous evolution of its prevention and detection engines along with best-in-class suite capabilities.
Trend Micro’s endpoint security technology is driven by its XGen™ approach: a cross-generational blend of threat defense techniques that intelligently applies the right technology at the right time, resulting in more effective and efficient protection against a full range of threats.
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