In a statement here on Thursday, Intel said Prakash would be responsible for the growth of its business through channel distribution, local original equipment manufacturers and multinational corporations (MNCs) in Malaysia.

“Prakash will also focus on driving strategic engagements with the government and ecosystem players as part of efforts to accelerate technology adoption in Malaysia, as well as spearhead market expansion strategies to grow local consumption,” it said.

Prakash said he was excited to be a part of Malaysia‘s growth story.

“With continued collaboration with our customers, government and business partners, I’m confident we’ll be able to significantly contribute towards Malaysia’s goal of becoming a high income, knowledge-based economy,” he said.

Ryaz Patel, outgoing Malaysia country manager, will assume the role of Asia-Pacific MNC sales director.

He will be responsible for continuing to raise information communication technology adoption across Asia-Pacific and increase the region’s role in new areas such as cloud computing.

“It’s been an amazing two years leading the team in Malaysia. I’m confident that Prakash’s leadership will help Intel further support Malaysia’s objectives of pervasive access to broadband.” he said.

Novell investors will get $6.10 a share, Attachmate, a software company owned by private-equity firms including Golden Gate Capital Corp., said today in a statement. That’s 9.1 percent more than Novell’s closing price on Nov. 19. Novell will also sell some intellectual-property assets to a group of technology companies led by Microsoft Corp. for $450 million.

The company, which has reported sales declines for three of the past four years, had trouble competing against larger rivals such as Microsoft, said Rich Williams, an analyst at Cross Research. Novell started looking at strategic alternatives including a sale after rejecting a $2 billion takeover offer in March from shareholder Elliott Associates LP as inadequate.

“Management had struggled over the last few years to grow the new businesses and that created an opportunity given all of the cash from the balance sheet for financial bidders,” said Livingston, New Jersey-based Williams, who rates Novell “hold” and doesn’t own the stock. “The financially oriented buyers are going to hold the company, reshape it to a degree and then in a few years, in a more attractive environment, bring the company public.”

Novell’s new products were too “underdeveloped” to attract other technology companies as bidders, making it a suitable target for financial buyers, Williams said. Seattle- based Attachmate, whose owners also include Francisco Partners and Thoma Bravo LLC, said Novell will complement a portfolio that includes other technology assets.

Not familiar with Attachmate? They bought NetIQ in 2006. NetIQ was popular earlier this decade for their AppManager product. They also – briefly – owned a product they acquired with the purchase in 2000 of Mission Critical Software, known as Operations Manager. AppManager, a systems and applications management offering, at that time was considered a more established and valuable product than AppManager. Rather than confuse their customer with two somewhat similar offerings, NetIQ decided to license the technology used in Operations Manager to Microsoft. That led to Microsoft Operations Manager 2000, a product now in its third release by Microsoft.

From a performance standpoint, the zEnterprise Mainframe is the most powerful commercial IBM system ever. It includes up to 96 of the world’s fastest, most powerful microprocessors, capable of executing more than 50 billion instructions per second.

This performance will accommodate HeiTech’s business growth across the region and will be used to run workloads for HeiTech’s customers across a range of industries including banking, finance and public sector. The new zEnterprise will be located at HeiTech’s Tier IV Data Centre in the city of Shah Alam.

The new IBM zEnterprise System is the result of an investment of more than $1.5 billion in IBM research and development as well as more than three years of collaboration with some of IBM’s top clients around the world. It is also the first system capable of managing workloads running on the mainframe as well as select IBM Power and System x servers as a single virtualized system.

Dato’ Mohd Hilmey Mohd Taib, Executive Chairman of HeiTech said, “With the current economic climate and other threats, it is now more important than ever for organisations to maintain operational effectiveness and flexibility while benefitting from one of the most powerful, secure and robust IT infrastructures on the market. The IBM zEnterprise opens up the possibility of hosting entire workloads on a single, highly-integrated system and is set to support HeiTech’s customers which are running some of the most demanding and mission-critical applications on the planet.”

The IBM zEnterprise System will support HeiTech’s business growth plans over the next five years especially as it takes its services to other countries in the ASEAN market. To do this, HeiTech will collaborate with IBM to offer this solution to interested customers in Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. In Malaysia the system will be used to manage the huge databases of HeiTech’s existing public sector customers. The new system will provide HeiTech Padu with a competitive differentiator in the market place and is further validation of its approach to managing service delivery.

“The new IBM zEnterprise System represents a bold move to fundamentally change how data centers are managed,” said Ramanathan Sathiamutty, Managing Director, IBM Malaysia. “The new mainframe is the fastest enterprise server in the world and represents a giant leap forward in performance. We are excited to partner with HeiTech Padu to provide the best infrastructure for their customers and help realize the company’s vision of growth whilst improving performance.”

Dato’ Hilmey continued, “The IBM zEnterprise is the best solution ever to effortlessly support our customers’ growing business needs. Our investment will benefit our customers by helping them achieve better business efficiency through an increased level of responsiveness, better value and higher customer satisfaction. Our customers can rest assured that their data will be managed efficiently, securely and cost effectively.”

The company will start by replacing 25,000 BlackBerry smartphones with the company’s own Venture Pro smartphone, the company’s latest Windows Phone 7 device. Dell will later give employees the option of using smartphones powered by Google Android.

Dell says it would save a significant amount of money by avoiding hefty BlackBerry Enterprise Server licenses, but the company at the same time would be operating at a less than optimal level on mobile security, and would forego the benefits of the seamless BlackBerry Messaging service.

A senior Dell employee at the company’s headquarters who commented on condition of anonymity said he was skeptical of the cost savings, and that not all people at the company welcomed the transition, citing the ease of use of the BlackBerry platform.

The announcement comes as the launch date nears for the debut of Windows Phone 7 smartphones.

Good luck to Dell and Microsoft Windows Phone 7.

YTL Communications unveiled the official website http://www.yes.my for their 4g wireless service. Yes is the world’s first nationwide converged 4G service that offers data, calls and SMS in one simple plan. The pricing details still are not available and will only be released on 19th November.

Izzi, P1 & now Yes(YTL) claimed to be 4G. Are you sure this is a 4G network? Let see what Gizmodo said about 4G here and The Star Newspaper here.

Book your YES ID with 018 Number today. ]]> http://www.planetlowyat.com/blog/yes-from-ytl/feed/ 0 http://www.planetlowyat.com/blog/dell-servers-shipped-with-embedded-spyware/ http://www.planetlowyat.com/blog/dell-servers-shipped-with-embedded-spyware/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:47:18 +0000 Planet Lowyat http://www.planetlowyat.com/blog/?p=707 According to one of the website in India, Dell has confirmed that some of its PowerEdge server motherboards have been shipped to customers with embedded spyware.

According to Dell, the damage is limited to replacement motherboards for four Dell server products – PowerEdge R310, PowerEdge R410, PowerEdge R510 and PowerEdge T410. However, the exact malware type, and how it managed its way onto the motherboards is still not clear.

“As part of Dell’s quality process, we have identified a potential issue with our service mother board stock, like the one you received for your PowerEdge R410, and are taking preventative action with our customers accordingly. The potential issue involves a small number of PowerEdge server motherboards sent out through service dispatches that may contain malware. This malware code has been detected on the embedded server management firmware as you indicated.”

“We take matters of information security very seriously and believe that any impact to a customer’s information security is unlikely. To date we have received no customer reports related to data security. Systems running non-Windows operating systems are not vulnerable to this malware and this issue is not present on motherboards shipped new with PowerEdge systems.”

“We have assembled a customer list and are directly contacting customers like you through a call campaign. On the call, you should be provided a phone number to call if you have additional questions.”

Together with the joint efforts of MAMPU and its Open Source arm, OSCC, the MSC MOSC2010 will be a content driven platform consisting of three tracks that caters for the most relevant parties of the Open Source world: developers, the Open Source community and the businesses sector.

Malaysia Open Source Conference

Date: 29th of June to 1st of July 2010.
Venue: Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Who should attend?

• Business executives from local and foreign companies
• Open Source developers, communities, inventors, evangelist, researchers, strategist
• Government officers
• Students, general public

Come join us at the MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010! You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

About
The Malaysian Open Source Developer’s Club or in short known as OSDC.my is a community based club open for all enthusiastic Open Source developers and users across Malaysia, to share their thought, knowledge and experience and leverage the Open Source idea to public.

Please visit MSC MOSC2010 – http://conf.oss.my/ for more details.

Malaysia & LONDON International consulting firm BroadGroup, together with the Malaysian Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) which directs and oversees Malaysia’s National ICT (Information & Communication Technology) Initiative has announced the launch of the first international summit for data centres. The event will take place in Kuala Lumpur 29-30 September 2010.

Data Centres Malaysia Summit 2010 will include a special focus on regional and international enterprise customers of data centres and their outsourcing needs as emerging private clouds, new technologies and market shift impact across the sector.

Date:
29-30 September 2010

Venue:
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Jalan Sultan Ismail
Kuala Lumpur 50250
Malaysia

Agenda:

Day 1:
OFFICIAL OPENING
OPENING KEYNOTE
SESSION 1 – MALAYSIA AS A DATA CENTRE LOCATION – RESULTS OF INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROGRAMME
SESSION 2 – MALAYSIA DATA CENTRE LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE
SESSION 3 – DATA CENTRE INVESTMENT AND OUTSOURCING
SESSION 4 – GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THEIR DATA CENTRES
SESSION 5 – MANAGED SERVICES FOR FINANCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS [Data Centre User Requirements]
SESSION 6 – FIBRE AND CONNECTIVITY
SESSION 7 – DATA CENTRE SECURITY
SESSION 8 – DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO STORAGE AND CDN STRATEGIES

Day 2:
SESSION 9 – PRIVATE CLOUD AND THE IMPACT ON DATA CENTRES
SESSION 10 – REDUCING DATA CENTRE POWER COSTS
SESSION 11 – SUSTAINABILITY AND GREEN IN THE DATA CENTRE
SESSION 12 – CONTAINERIZATION OF THE DATA CENTRE
Workshop
Future Data Centre Design

Check out more details here and register today!