Q&A

Q&A: Ericsson sees 5G rollouts to end-users by 2020

June 5th, 2017 | by Alfred Siew

Ericsson's head of network products in Southeast Asia, Linda Lindberg, says 5G demos so far already offer a glimpse of what the technology...

Q&A: Constant need to adapt skills even as digitalisation brings jobs to infocomm sector

May 2nd, 2017 | by Alfred Siew

Infocomm technology (ICT) talent will be in demand with the digitalisation of the economy, society and government, says Khoong Hock Yun, the assistant chief executive for development at...

Q&A: Futurologist Ian Pearson says selfies will grow up to be more useful

April 7th, 2017 | by Alfred Siew

Dr Ian Pearson, a British futurologist, tells Techgoondu that the selfie will become more important over time as people grow more accepting of sharing their images...

Q&A: Enterprises can manage data efficiently on the cloud, says Veritas

March 6th, 2017 | by Alfred Siew

Enterprises can enjoy the scale and reach of the cloud and still manage their data efficiently, says Veritas' country manager for Singapore, Sheena Chin, in this month's...

Q&A: SMEs in Asia-Pacific have to be better prepared for cyber attacks

December 13th, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

No one can protect everything all of the time, but SMEs can ensure that their most important data is given maximum...

Q&A: Internet of Insecure Things? Think security as the logical first step, says Sophos

September 28th, 2016 | by Techgoondu

IoT security should be treated as a first-class problem that has to be tackled urgently as people install more connected devices at home, says...

Q&A: Assume your network is already compromised, says Ixia

August 31st, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Organisations should work out their cyber security strategy by assuming that they have already been compromised, says Ixia's Asia-Pacific managing director Naveen...

Q&A: Cloud will appeal to Asia’s SMBs despite issues, says GoDaddy

July 19th, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Despite being a well-connected country, Singapore has many SMBs that don't even have a website. That's changing, GoDaddy says, as more turn to the...

Q&A: Visa’s Ooi Huey Tyng expects swift takeup of mobile wallets in Singapore

June 23rd, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Mobile wallets will take off swiftly in Singapore, because users are already familiar with the phone as an integral part of life, says...

Q&A: Accenture points to digital commerce for consumer packaged goods companies

May 3rd, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Digital commerce will be a key factor in deciding who takes a bigger slice of a booming consumer packaged goods market in Asia-Pacific, says...

Q&A: Singapore can make engineering interesting again

March 16th, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

Since Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called for more to join the engineering field during his Silicon Valley trip last month, there has been much talk of the importance of engineering in Singapore’s push to be a smart...

Q&A: Pay-TV piracy a sign of frustrated consumers, says Irdeto

February 10th, 2016 | by Alfred Siew

One reason why people pirate pay-TV content, says Irdeto vice-president for Asia-Pacific, Bengt Jonsson, is because they are frustrated....

Q&A: Open source still matters

January 21st, 2016 | by Aaron Tan

While open source software (OSS) used to be a divisive force in the IT industry, it's no longer the case today - more enterprises are now embracing OSS, from databases and storage to middleware in their IT...

Q&A: Disrupting the storage industry

December 22nd, 2015 | by Aaron Tan

Pure Storage’s chief technology officer in Asia Pacific and Japan tells us more about his company’s enterprise flash storage offerings and how they address customer...

Q&A: Opera looks to compression to solve mobile data woes

November 27th, 2015 | by Alfred Siew

Data compression increases the efficiency of global networks because the size of the images and videos transmitted is smaller, Opera...

Q&A: Democratising business intelligence

October 8th, 2015 | by Aaron Tan

Birst's chairman, founder and chief product officer Brad Peters tells us more about the challenges facing organisations in implementing their BI strategies....