Author: Edwin Yapp

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The corporate world has perhaps experienced more changes in the last five years than it has the preceding two decades, due to factors ranging from global economic upheavals to disruptive technologies.
Brocade out to shed SAN player image
Data storage and networking company Brocade Communications System Inc began life focusing on storage area network (SAN) gear, but in recent years has set its sights on becoming a more mainstream networking player and is poised to take on leadings rivals.
France's InfoVista acquires M'sian telco software firm Aexio
Malaysian telco software house Aexio has been acquired by InfoVista, a company specialising in service performance and assurance software for the mobile industry.
Muted LTE ad campaigns good for the market
Nine months have passed since the first announcement was made with regard to the availability of Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile technology in Malaysia. Edwin Yapp looks back and wonders if the subdued LTE ad campaigns are good for the ecosystem.
Security weaknesses must be shared openly: Facebook CSO
The long-held belief that it is better for IT security vulnerabilities to be kept under wraps and not shared between organisations and the security community is flawed, as such a practice could be detrimental to the industry as a whole, according to Facebook’s security head.
Has the cloud finally 'arrived' in Malaysia?
Edwin Yapp attended the MSC Cloud Computing Conference and comes away with some thoughts about how the cloud is finally breaking into the Malaysian enterprise scene.
Malaysia’s domain registrar MYNIC breached … again
The Malaysian registrar for the ‘.my’ top level domain MYNIC Bhd may have failed to prevent an attempt to breach its Domain Name Server (DNS) by a hacker group known as Madleets, which had led Google Malaysia to experience, for a second time this year, a re-direction of its www.google.com.my and www.google.my search pages late on Oct 10.
‘The cloud is safer than you think’
While cloud computing has been positioned as a new way of computing that can improve efficiencies and save costs for enterprises, security and privacy have always been cited as the major impediments holding back many companies from adoption ... perhaps wrongly
CIOs who don't evolve in the cloud era will be replaced
It’s no secret that the role of the CIO has been evolving over the past few years as information technology becomes more central and strategic for many enterprises.
Apple ousts Coke as most valuable brand in the world
Two technology behemoths -- Apple and Google -- have been crowned the most valuable brands in the world by Interbrand, with one of them dethroning a household name that has held on to the top spot consecutively for close to a decade-and-a-half.
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