Aaron Raj

Kuala Lumpur

Editor at CRN Asia

A gooner who loves writing and filming anything and everything about enterprise tech.

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Qlik doubles down on ISV support as organizations revamp AI strategies in APAC

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

AI-related investments in Asia Pacific are projected to outpace overall digital technology spending by 1.7 times, with GenAI expected to have an estimated regional economic impact of US$1.6 trillion by 2027. According to an IDC InfoBrief commissioned by Qlik and co-sponsored by AWS, 80% of Asia Pacific organizations are rethinking data management as poor data quality, bias, and complex engineering cause one in five AI projects to fail.
Crayon study: SMBs look to third-party providers to drive AI adoption

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

SMBs are leveraging third-party providers that offer strategic and technological expertise to maximize AI’s value in the cloud and kickstart their initiatives. While cloud adoption remained a key priority for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in 2023, a study revealed that SMBs are now shifting strategies to focus on AI expansion.
Rackspace Technology appoints APJ GTM leader, Wade Wierman joins as Aussie data lead

1 week ago | crn.com.au | Aaron Raj

Rackspace Technology’s Adhil Badat has been appointed the role of Managing Director, Asia Pacific and Japan. Rackspace Technology has appointed Adhil Badat as the new Managing Director Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Badat was previously Rackspace Technology’s Chief Operating Officer for the APJ region.
Rackspace Technology appoints APJ GTM leader

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

Rackspace Technology’s Adhil Badat has been appointed the role of Managing Director, Asia Pacific and Japan. Rackspace Technology has appointed Adhil Badat as the new Managing Director Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Badat was previously Rackspace Technology’s Chief Operating Officer for the APJ region.
Netskope: Platform-based solutions are all the rage today

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

“Netskope has from day one stayed true to one central promise, which is that we will not go away from the promise of a single client, single console, single network,” says Kunal Jha, Regional Director for Netskope Asia. When it comes to SASE, Netskope is a global leader in the industry, especially when it comes to helping organizations apply zero trust and AI as well as machine learning innovations.
Legacy infrastructure still hindering bank AI capabilities

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

From risk management to fraud detection, banks would need to move from legacy infrastructure to fully embrace the capabilities of AI. The financial industry is often regarded as the first industry to adapt to new technologies. While there are still regulatory requirements that need to be adhered to when developing and deploying new technologies, the reality is, if a use case is successful in the financial services industry, it will most likely be successful in other industries as well.
After NVIDIA, AMD also plans to manufacture chips in the US with TSMC

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

AMD will be leveraging TSMC’s advanced 2nm process technology to develop its next-generation AMD EPYC processor, codenamed “Venice”. With tariffs on the semiconductor industry seemingly on the horizon, US chip companies have begun exploring options and capabilities needed to manufacture chips locally in the US.
For Cohesity, it’s all about expansion and growth in Asia

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

“We've seen a lot of customers move from our competitors to Cohesity in a desire to improve the speed of recovery and improve the quality of security that they have. We've also seen customers move to our purpose-built backup appliances,” Mark Nutt, Senior Vice President, International Sales at Cohesity. It’s been nearly four months since Cohesity closed its acquisition of Veritas’ data protection business to become the world’s largest data protection software provider.
Ping Identity’s partner ecosystem cornerstone to success in Southeast Asia

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

In new market expansion plans in the region, Ping Identity will continue to look out for partners who are able to fulfil either a delivery perspective or sales perspective, says Jasie Fon, regional vice president in Asia for Ping Identity. In Southeast Asia, Ping’s partner ecosystem is cornerstone to their success for many reasons.
Tariff Lalaland: Taking the ASEAN approach to a complicated relationship

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Aaron Raj

Regional tech distributors will be hoping Malaysia mediates the relationship between China and US The tariff situation between the US and China is not showing any signs of ease. Currently, the US has set tariffs on Chinese goods at 145%, with the exclusion on mobile and computer devices, while China has announced that US goods will be taxed at 125%. Other countries around the world have a 10% fixed tariff rate for 90 days.