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BCPM gets second wind with new proposal

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New thought for Board of Computing Professionals Malaysia, nonetheless in early levels To assist fill talent gap, universities need to better hyperlink college students to the industry desires THE National ICT Human Resource Task Force has submitted a new idea to the Government to establish the once-debatable Board of Computing Professionals Malaysia (BCPM).   Task force chairman Professor Khairuddin Ab Hamid (%) , said the proposal become submitted to the Economic Planning Unit and the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia.    “In order to compete and develop globally, we want to institutionalise the IT profession and [its] standards by means of having a countrywide IT professional frame,” Khairuddin advised Digital News Asia (DNA) in an interview in Putrajaya lately.   The task pressure has made its presentation to the Ministry’s technical committee. The next step might be to present the concept to the management of the ministry, in step with Khairuddin.   “We are neverthel...

Banks in Malaysia face new threat … and opportunity: Accenture

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Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reinvent themselves as The Everyday Bank Some in Malaysia already beginning to move closer to digitalisation to address hole MALAYSIA’S banks face a brand new hazard: Competitors starting from era and telecommunications companies to purchaser retailers and travel retailers who're the use of digital technologies to part in at the retail banking panorama.   This new opposition is a good sized risk however additionally spell an opportunity, in keeping with consultancy company Accenture.   In a declaration, Accenture said its research indicates that digitally contestable markets are set to develop faster than conventional sectors, but the incumbents stand to lose commercial enterprise. It is estimated that one-third of traditional banks’ market stocks might be at hazard through 2020 due to new entrants.   However, if banks successfully make changes to fill a brand new strategic function, designed for virtual, they stand to drive up to 250% more...

Unit4 appoints new Asia Pacific managing director

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To lead commercial enterprise enlargement and reinforce patron revel in in APAC To also take charge of increasing accomplice surroundings in the area NETHERLANDS-situated enterprise software company Unit4 has introduced the appointment of Jack van der Velde (percent above) to the placement of dealing with director for its Asia Pacific operations powerful July 1.   He succeeds Weng Foo Chua who has chosen to step all the way down to pursue new opportunities out of doors Unit4, the employer said in a announcement.   Based in Singapore, van der Velde will play a essential role in Unit4’s local expansion, in addition to in accelerating and strengthening the business enterprise’s accomplice atmosphere in the vicinity.   Previously placed within the Netherlands, van der Velde changed into instrumental in developing Unit4’s IT Solutions commercial enterprise on the grounds that 2004, including responsibility for the enterprise’s worldwide cloud delivery and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS...

Oracle launches new Sun servers with elastic computing capabilities

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First and simplest x86 servers to offer ‘elastic computing’ Also first servers on new Intel Xeon E7-8895 v2 processors ORACLE Corporation has released the Sun Server X4-four and Sun Server X4-8, which it claimed are the first and simplest x86 systems which dynamically adapt to workload specific necessities to maximise machine utilisation and enhance efficiency.   With Oracle’s x86 elastic computing capabilities, finished via engineering the server design with Oracle’s Solaris and Linux working systems, corporations can configure these systems to dynamically optimise performance for a given workload, Oracle stated in a assertion.   “The Sun Server X4-4 and Sun Server x4-8 further Oracle’s aim of simplifying IT and substantially decreasing operating costs for our customers with the aid of delivering products that are fine for Oracle Database In-Memory Option and enterprise analytics,” said Oracle senior vp for hardware improvement Ali Alasti (p.c) .   “Through near collaboration wi...

New traffic info on 3 towns for Google Maps

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New visitors statistics aims to assist commuters plan their journeys to avoid jams Traffic records harnessed from various sources such as nameless Maps customers GOOGLE Malaysia has delivered its Traffic layer to maps in Ipoh, Melaka and Penang, which the business enterprise says may be extra beneficial for Malaysian customers — mainly for people with lengthy every day commutes in these regions.   This upgrade is a part of its ongoing efforts to offer Malaysians with the maximum comprehensive, accurate and clean-to-use maps, complementing Traffic and Transit for Google Maps in Malaysia which changed into released in advance this 12 months, the hunt giant said in a statement.   Google’s Traffic layer (%, click to expand) provides records about actual-time avenue congestion proper at the map with the intention to help users discover the way to get to in which they want to head as quick as viable, the agency stated.   Google Maps customers can effortlessly determine the level of co...

CA Tech arcserve launches new unified data protection platform

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Managing more than one licence agreements and inner skillsets is a ‘little bit of a nightmare’ arcserve’s UDP answer can paintings throughout combined IT environments, CA Tech claims   RESEARCH corporation Gartner reviews that between 2012 and 2016, one-0.33 of firms will exchange backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity and/ or capability. By 2016, as a minimum 20% of big establishments will abandon backup/ recuperation solutions.   It is that this frustration that CA Technologies arcserve (previously ARCserve) hopes to cope with with the latest release of its Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution, touted to be an clean-to-use, fee-powerful backup and Assured Recovery solution that may paintings across mixed IT environments, therefore assisting companies improve the provision of essential structures.   In an interview with Digital News Asia (DNA), James Forbes May, vice chairman of records management at CA Technologies Asia & Pacific, talked about that ...

Telco Deep Dive: New uses for telcos’ core assets

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On May 26, Digital News Asia (DNA) released its first Deep Dive document, which looked at the telecommunications space in Malaysia. Over those next two weeks, we are able to be publishing the articles from the PDF document on our portal, plus different testimonies. To down load the Telco Deep Dive, click right here . In this newsletter, Melanie Bockemühl and Helge Hofmeister of the Boston Consulting Group write about how telcos can generate new sales streams with the aid of making their belongings and associated offerings available to their commercial enterprise customers. Telcos have property which can assist retailers, banks, and different organizations But to seize the possibility, they'll have to conquer challenges alt="Telco Deep Dive: New uses for telcos’ middle belongings" src="/sites/default/documents/snap shots/virtualp.c20economy/phonepercent20shopper.jpg" style="width:one hundred%; height:450px; margin-top:2px; margin-bottom:2px; "...

Nutanix rolls out new OS for virtualised data centres

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New net-scale technologies to assist companies obtain scale and agility Admins can proactively reveal system sources quit-to-give up DATA centre infrastructure answers company Nutanix has released its Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.0, the contemporary launch of the smart software powering its Virtual Computing Platform.   With the new OS, Nutanix stated it gives you the blessings of net-scale IT to virtualised facts centres as a simple turnkey solution without compromising employer-magnificence functionality or requiring an intensive overhaul of the surroundings.   NOS 4.0 functions and upgrades consist of end-to-cease gadget analytics and multi-cluster management in the manipulate cloth, together with tuneable resilience and effective dispensed statistics services in the information fabric, the organization stated in a statement.   “The future of simple and value-efficient digital facts centres is now, and firms in Malaysia are taking advantage of web-scale technologies to ach...

New version of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c for the cloud

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Enterprise-scale DB and middleware management at the private cloud Company calling it ‘0-to-cloud – multiplied,’ says speeds up cloud adoption ORACLE Corporation has launched Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 c Release 4 that it said would allow companies to adopt business enterprise-scale personal clouds unexpectedly.   Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 lets in for a rapid organisation-extensive adoption of database, middleware and infrastructure offerings inside the non-public cloud, pushed through an more suitable API-enabled service catalogue.   “Since its inception, Oracle has been leading the way in revolutionary, scalable and high overall performance answers for the enterprise,” stated Prakash Ramamurthy, senior vice president of Systems and Cloud Management at Oracle.   “With this release of Oracle Enterprise Manager, we are extending this management by means of imparting enterprise-scale abilities for planning, handing over, and coping with non-public clouds.   “We n...

TM rolls out new UniFi packages for business aimed at SMEs

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Two new programs at 30Mbps and 50Mbps speeds; include complementary products and services Triple-play providing includes HyppTV, formerly best to be had in residential applications says TM TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd (TM) has announced higher speeds (30Mbps and 50Mbps) for its UniFi for Business (UniFi BIZ) packages, which include the supply of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) for organizations.   The new applications -- BIZ30 and BIZ50 -- come with a number of complementary services and products, TM stated in a statement: Free DECT phone; one WiFi Business Getaway; TM WiFi ID; 10GB internet website hosting together with a 2GB e-mail account; one Infoblast account; and upload-on Value Added Services (VAS) alternatives that consist of internet garage capacities of as much as 10GB and also an upload-on fixed IP cope with.   “With this … SMEs (small and medium corporations) could be capable of maximize the use of subsequent-era on line programs and offerings thru TM’s high-velocity br...

Dell unveils new ‘Fluid Data’ solutions

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End-to-stop storage portfolio updates designed to enhance the Fluid Data structure New Storage Center 6.3 software program can improve controller overall performance through up to 100% DELL has unveiled a series of quit-to-quit garage portfolio updates designed to advance the Fluid Data architecture and to help customers further optimize information at each point in its lifecycle.   “The nature of IT and what a facts middle have to do for an company is changing rapidly as customers face a couple of and regularly competing fashions of how technology is delivered — from consumer to cloud to converged,” stated k.t. Ong, trendy supervisor, Commercial Business, Dell Sales Malaysia.   “Dell’s Fluid Data Architecture allows new abilties that electricity the facts middle, so customers can drive real enterprise outcomes,” he claimed.   The Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.3 array software gives more advantageous scalability and overall performance for Dell Compellent arrays.   Compellent...

New order management platform websites for Room Service

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Features consist of 3-step checkout and credit card payments Built on Ruby on Rails, to be rolled out to other SEA markets FOOD transport carrier Food Runner stated it has launched a new order control platform, along with remodeled web sites for its Room Service offering in Malaysia and Singapore.   The new order management platform is a part of Room Service’s virtual transition and rebranding, following a new emblem in March, the company stated in a statement.   With a renewed focus on its on line business, its new gadget will function a common technology platform across Food Runner’s South-East Asian running agencies, beginning with Room Service in Malaysia and Singapore, it introduced.   The release of the platform proposing both the backend order management as well as the front-quit web order gadget, will improve cellphone and web order processing, operational efficiencies, logistical management and service stage warranty, it declared.   “The new gadget is built on Ruby on Ra...

Developers the new rock-stars in the Philippines

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· Hackathon now not for the faint-hearted · Only 9 hours to develop a mobile app COMING at the heels of its a hit WebGeek DevCup Hackathon in August, which noticed 38 groups take part, Smart DevNet and WebGeek are about to unleash a brand new hackathon on Dec 1.   The Foursquare Hack Day Philippines  (#4SQHackPH) promises to be an extreme all-day cell app hackathon that its organizers desire will give upward thrust to the most creative and skillful group to supply the nice mobile application the usage of Foursquare APIs (software programming interfaces).   Applications may be assembled using any blend of programming languages, application frameworks, and improvement tools. Participants are anticipated to bring the essential tools to build their opposition access and must demo their app via a smartphone.   Participants may be given nine hours to craft a cell app conforming to the topic to receive on the event day itself. 43 teams have confirmed their participation to date.   The idea ...