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As organisations move to a cloud-first strategy, with applications and data workloads on cloud, there remain concerns over data security on cloud. Most organisations manage these security concerns by continuing to keep sensitive data on-premise while moving remaining workloads that require elasticity and scalability to cloud. The concern over security on cloud is not just...
in Our Tech Highway, Tech Gallery Then, Now and the Future – HP’s Journey to Advanced Manufacturing with Singapore
The 70s was a decade of establishment for Singapore: the country’s new National Stadium was built in Kallang and the flagship airline, Singapore Airlines, was born. That was also in the decade, in 1970, that Hewlett-Packard (HP) arrived in Singapore. It was a mark of the growing importance, and potential, of Singapore. By 1973, HP...
The world has entered the Quantum Decade — an era when enterprises begin to see quantum computing’s business value. With so-called “quantum advantage” — when these machines become better than traditional computers alone at a specific, practical task — likely by the middle of this decade, the technology could soon disrupt business models and redefine...
in Our Tech Highway, SGTECH 40TH ANNIVERSARY, Tech Celebration Merging Two IT Groups into One Unified Association for Stronger Representation of the Tech Industry
The Singapore Federation of the Computer Industry (SFCI) was founded in 1982 by multinational computer companies like IBM, ICL, NCR and Sperry Univac while the Microcomputer Trade Association (MTAS) which represented the smaller local companies in the microcomputer/PC trade. MTAS members included companies such as Primefield, Creative Technology, SIS Technology IPC, Aztech and Sistek. The...
in Decentralized Computing, Our Tech Catalyst Crypto sector is a small part of decentralised technology which will expand
This year has been a tumultuous year for the technology industry. The technology industry, as a whole, has been on a de-risking mode since the US Federal Reserve hinted at multiple rate hikes in late 2021 to combat rising inflation and with the Nasdaq Composite falling as low as 33 per cent in June 2022...
Let’s start with a horror story. A French firm specialising in healthcare tech used a cloud-based version of an AI program to assess whether patients could query it for medical advice. The firm’s researchers gave the AI program various tasks, ranging from low impact – such as administrative chats with patients – to high sensitivity...