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Alibaba Cloud, the data backbone of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding , has launched its first personal cloud product Alibaba Cloud Drive, challenging established players like Baidu and Tencent Holdings in China. The service, which opened for public testing on Monday for both Android and iOS systems, offers users up to two terabytes of free storage and “unlimited” uploading and downloading speeds, according to a company statement. However, these speeds depend on the Internet provider. Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is China’s biggest cloud computing services provider, mainly focused on enterprise businesses. The expansion into the personal cloud service market is aimed at gaining a slice of a segment that had 404 million users in 2020, according to estimates from data mining and analysis firm iiMedia Research. Search engine giant Baidu topped the personal cloud service market in China with nearly 40 million monthly active users (MAU) for its Baidu Wangpan as of ... » Learn More about Alibaba Cloud launches its first personal cloud product, challenging Baidu and Tencent

INDIANA: US chip titan Intel said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) it would invest $20 billion in building two new plants in Arizona as part of a plan to ramp up production in the United States and Europe. The move comes as a global chip shortage has countries and companies in those regions looking to reduce reliance on plants in Asia for semiconductors, which are used in a growing array of products such as cars. Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger announced the investment during a webcast about the company’s strategy, as it faces pressure to come up with bold ways to fend off fierce competition. “Intel is the only company with the depth and breadth of software, silicon and platforms, packaging and process with at-scale manufacturing customers can depend on for their next-generation innovations,” Gelsinger said. He stressed that Intel intends to continue doing most of its chip making at its own plants, while also building on relationships with third-party foundries for some ... » Learn More about Intel to spend $20B for new plants

With Singapore’s Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (Dorscon) level raised to orange since Feb 7, many companies islandwide have activated their business continuity plans. Common business continuity measures include getting employees to work from split sites, from home and on split shifts. As the coronavirus continues its global spread, the outbreak is forcing the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. Companies in Singapore and around the world have had to figure out how to stay operational in a virtual world, including leveraging technology to instil stability and minimise disruptions in their operations. Video conferences are replacing face-to-face meetings to minimise risk of infection across teams and premises. Online collaboration and cloud tools, such as cloud accounting platform Xero, have also become essential for telecommuting, empowering individuals and companies to carry on — business as usual — from anywhere and on any device. Xero is an online accounting ... » Learn More about Business continuity planning: 3 reasons why cloud tools are essential

There is perhaps no better motivator for children than peer pressure and the threat of public humiliation. Yesterday in Pattaya, many local schoolboys woke up to their quiet Songkran, unable to play in the traditional festivities, sporting their new home-made hairstyle meant to shame them into self isolation called the “Mushoom Cloud.” Pattaya hairdresser Prasit Laokodee masterminded the idea to give kids a haircut so ugly, so embarrassing, they would willingly WANT to stay inside and avoid the laughter and finger pointing of their schoolmates. Their parents thought it was brilliant. Only problem, the kids loved it. Turns out giving a similar haircut to several buddies unifies them, whether it’s the Khao Sam Dan, or “three white sides” fad of the police, or the “Mushroom Cloud” crop that’s now all the rage in Pattaya. Maybe the governments’ mandatory haircuts for students has some merit after all in developing uniformity of moral, but hey, why not have some fun with it. ... » Learn More about A mushroom cloud hangs over Pattaya

After removing a laptop advertisement featuring the popular stand-up comedian Yang Li, semiconductor giant Intel is having a hard time pleasing both men and women who say the US firm is guilty of sexism – but for different reasons. Yang, 29, is known in China for her piercing jokes targeting men. An ad posted last Thursday (March 18) to the microblogging platform Sina Weibo and Taobao, the e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba Group Holding, parent company of the South China Morning Post, played on Yang’s reputation. “Intel has a taste for laptops that is higher than my taste for men,” Yang quipped in the video. A backlash from male users quickly ensued, with some asking why Intel was trying to promote a laptop by insulting the very customers they believed were more likely to purchase the product. Others called for a boycott. By Sunday (March 21), Intel had removed the ad, but that did not quell the controversy. Women charged Intel with appeasing fragile male egos. Arguments ... » Learn More about Intel pulls Chinese ad featuring comedian Yang Li after it angered men – then women hit back

Intel is facing pressure to come up with bold ways to fend off fierce competition. SAN FRANCISCO: US chip titan Intel said Tuesday it will invest $20 billion in building two new plants in Arizona as part of a plan to ramp up production in the United States and Europe. The move comes as a global chip shortage has countries and companies in those regions looking to reduce reliance on plants in Asia for semiconductors, which are used in a growing array of products such as cars. "Intel's investment will help to preserve US technology innovation and leadership, strengthen US economic and national security, and protect and grow thousands of high-tech, high-wage American jobs," Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said in a statement. Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger announced the investment during a webcast about the company's strategy, as it faces pressure to come up with ways to fend off fierce competition. "Intel is the only company with the depth and breadth of software, ... » Learn More about Intel to spend $20bn on new US chip plants

Like many small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) growing fast, ProActiv Sports once found itself struggling to cope with the sheer volume of business transactions. Hard copies of invoices and bills were being sent and received regularly, and keeping track of them on Excel spreadsheets was becoming cumbersome. That’s not to mention the receipts that piled up each month as more people signed up for the sports programmes that the company runs for both adults and kids. Says Mr William Murray, ProActiv Sports’ co-founder and managing director: “Every month, we’d have to submit all the hard copies to our accountant. It was extremely time consuming and, if you misplaced anything, it was a nightmare.” But the issue was more than just an administrative one because it also affected how well the business was run, and whether it could grow and scale over time. Efficiency is key Founded in Hong Kong in 2011, ProActiv Sports expanded to Singapore in 2014 and to Malaysia in 2019. ... » Learn More about Struggling with overflowing filing cabinets and unwieldy spreadsheets? This cloud-based accounting software can help

Saudi Arabia, Mar 27, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - Having hosted multiple high-level conferences across the globe, World Cloud Show (WCS) has established itself as one of the world's biggest and elite cloud show series. While it has proven itself as the quintessential cloud event, World Cloud Show has had the reputation of getting global experts, investors, and cloud entrepreneurs all under one roof consistently, edition after edition. Taking place on 29 March 2020, and endorsed by Saudi Cloud Computing Association, World Cloud Show - KSA is powered by Oracle. With Darktrace as the lead sponsor, the show will feature keynotes from thought-leaders and industry experts, private networking sessions, secure audio-visual meetings, private meetings and more. Jonas Knudsen who is a research director within International Data Corporation (IDC) Health Insights in EMEA stated that, "Darktrace thrives in complex digital environments, as technology is adaptive and continues to ... » Learn More about Global Cloud Experts Gather to Address Roadmap for Cloud-First Approach in the Kingdom.

The pandemic has become the most influential driver of digital transformation and, consequently, global Cloud usage. With total worldwide spend on Cloud services expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2024 according to the International Data Corporation (IDC), performance, availability, and cost of connectivity become significant concerns for enterprises using the Cloud. Understanding these needs, Globe—through its enterprise arm Globe Business—entered a partnership with the world’s digital infrastructure company, Equinix. The alliance seeks to provide business clients with a hosted direct private connectivity to their cloud environments using Globe Premium Cloud Connect. “Platform Equinix, which enables Globe Premium Cloud Connect, comprises more than 220 data centers spread across five continents, along with a rich portfolio of interconnection services such as Equinix Fabric TM ,” shared Peter Maquera, Senior Vice President for Globe Business. “This on-demand, ... » Learn More about Globe business, Equinix forge premium cloud connect partnership

As the digitalisation of business becomes more and more prevalent – with the urgency for transformation gathering even more momentum due to the restrictions and complications of the COVID pandemic – the necessity for companies to be able to remain connected and continue to communicate and provide a service to the customer under any circumstances, is a vital component for any company serious about success under the new-normal of the 21-century. Which is where cloud-based contact centres come in. A cloud-based contact centre is best described as a customer communications hub that is not dependent on a physical location. This means a company’s communication network, software and data are all hosted ‘in the cloud’ by a service provider and all that is needed to access the centre is a computer or a smartphone. This way the cloud software becomes the contact centre, where customer service representatives can communicate and assist customers, with full access to their information, with ... » Learn More about NTT to host seminar on the benefits of cloud-based contact centres