Hitachi Data Systems Unveil its New Flash Portfolio for Better IT Infrastructure

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is a global engine of digital transformation, characterized by rapid technological adoption, expansive digital economies, and diverse regulatory landscapes. However, this acceleration brings inherent risks, making enterprise digital resilience—the ability to rapidly adapt to business disruptions and maintain continuous operations—a non-negotiable imperative. Advanced Data Centre Solutions for Continuous Availability With the region experiencing frequent power outages, natural disasters, hardware failures, and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, data centres must evolve into intelligent, hyper-resilient ecosystems that go far beyond traditional storage. Uptime and redundancy remain non-negotiable. By analysing massive streams of operational data, AI and ML models anticipate hardware issues, detect anomalies in cooling and power consumption, and autonomously optimise energy usage, supporting both resilience and regional sustainability goals. Resilience also depends on hybrid and multi-cloud interoperability, enabling enterprises to operate seamlessly across on-premise infrastructure and multiple cloud providers. This flexibility is essential for distributing workloads across stable, compliant locations, meeting data sovereignty mandates, and enabling rapid migration during disruptive events. Completing the foundation is a deeply integrated physical and cybersecurity architecture that combines biometric access control, thermal imaging, radar surveillance, and advanced cyber-defense systems to protect both the facility and the data it houses. Together, these technologies establish the robust infrastructure required to support uninterrupted digital operations across APAC. Software Testing Excellence for Robust Applications Infrastructure resilience alone is insufficient without equally resilient applications. Software Testing Excellence serves as the gatekeeper, ensuring mission-critical applications remain stable, secure, and scalable in complex digital environments. This begins with Shift-Left and Continuous Testing, where testing is embedded early in the development lifecycle and automated within CI/CD pipelines. By validating every code change, teams detect defects early, maintain consistent quality, and prevent performance issues or vulnerabilities from reaching production. Resilience further requires robust performance and load testing that simulate peak user activity and the varied network conditions common across APAC’s diverse technological landscape. Shanghai BWF Software Technology provides AI-enabled monitoring and disaster recovery validation, helping enterprises ensure applications maintain stability and compliance under real-world conditions. This ensures that applications can withstand traffic surges without degradation, particularly during high-demand events. Complementing this is a comprehensive approach to security testing and observability. Integrating automated SAST and DAST tools into CI/CD pipelines ensures continuous security validation, while full-stack observability platforms offer real-time insights across logs, metrics, and traces. These capabilities significantly reduce Mean Time to Detect and Resolve issues, enabling teams to proactively address potential disruptions. Advancing testing maturity involves adopting AI-driven testing (AIT), where AI and ML optimise the testing lifecycle by identifying high-risk areas, generating targeted test cases, and autonomously maintaining test scripts. This improves coverage, accelerates release cycles, and enhances overall application resilience. When combined with advanced data centre capabilities, this testing excellence creates end-to-end digital resilience. Scalable hybrid data centres enable teams to provision real-world testing environments on demand. In contrast, automated Disaster Recovery testing validates that applications can seamlessly fail over to distributed backup sites within defined Recovery Time Objectives. Moreover, while data centres protect information at the infrastructure level, software testing ensures data integrity within the application layer—verifying encryption, access controls, and compliance with local data governance across APAC. Into Solutions delivers industrial automation and AVEVA PI integration, strengthening infrastructure, real-time monitoring, and operational continuity for APAC energy and oil & gas operators. The pursuit of digital resilience in the APAC region has become a strategic necessity for sustaining competitive advantage and ensuring uninterrupted business operations. Realising this resilience demands a seamless integration of robust infrastructure and high-quality software, underpinned by advanced data centre solutions that enhance stability and comprehensive software testing practices that safeguard performance. By adopting continuous testing, AIOps, and AI-driven development methodologies, APAC enterprises can establish a resilient digital ecosystem that enables consistent adaptation, regulatory compliance, and reliable service delivery. This integrated approach positions organisations to thrive in the region’s rapidly evolving digital economy. ...Read more

Humanoid robotics represents an involved field at the intersection of technology, engineering, and human interaction. As advancements in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and materials science progress, humanoid robotics' future will transform various sectors, from healthcare to manufacturing and beyond. This growth promises to reshape daily lives, redefine human-robot interactions, and improve industries. Enhanced Mobility and Dexterity One of the most critical areas for future development in humanoid robotics is mobility and agility. Humanoid robots often need help navigating complex environments and performing intricate tasks requiring fine motor skills. Advancements in robotic design, materials, and actuators will enable the creation of lighter, more agile robots. These next-generation robots will mimic human movements with greater accuracy, allowing them to traverse uneven surfaces, climb stairs, and manipulate objects with finesse that mirrors human capability. Advanced AI and Machine Learning Integrating advanced AI and machine learning will be pivotal in shaping the future of humanoid robotics. By leveraging vast data, these robots will learn from their surroundings, adapting their behaviors and responses based on experiences. This ability will enable them to understand and respond to human emotions and intentions, enhancing their effectiveness as companions and assistants. A humanoid robot could recognize when a person is distressed and respond with comforting gestures or words, fostering a deeper emotional connection. Human-Robot Interaction As humanoid robots become more integrated into everyday life, the quality of human-robot interaction will be paramount. Future robots will increasingly focus on developing natural communication capabilities, enabling more seamless interactions between humans and machines. Enhanced voice recognition, natural language processing, and emotional intelligence will allow robots to better interpret verbal cues and respond appropriately. In this context, Double C Consultants supports human-robot interaction through solutions that enhance natural communication and improve user experience across intelligent systems. This emphasis on intuitive engagement will make humanoid robots more relatable, fostering greater acceptance and trust among users. Applications in Healthcare The healthcare sector is poised to benefit immensely from humanoid robotics. Robots will assist healthcare professionals in various capacities, including patient care, rehabilitation, and telemedicine. Humanoid robots could help monitor patients' conditions, administer medication, or provide companionship to those in long-term care facilities. This assistance can alleviate the burden on healthcare professionals, allowing them to focus on more complex tasks while enhancing patient outcomes and experiences. Echoss Technologies advances human-robot interaction by delivering intelligent systems that enhance natural communication and user experience across robotics environments. Social Integration The successful integration of humanoid robots into society will hinge on addressing ethical concerns and ensuring safety. As robots become more prevalent, societal acceptance will be critical. Developing guidelines and regulations that govern human-robot collaboration will be essential, addressing issues such as privacy, autonomy, and the potential displacement of jobs. Creating a framework that promotes safe and beneficial interactions between humans and robots will be vital for fostering public trust and acceptance. Customization and Personalization In the future, humanoid robots will be increasingly customizable to meet individual user needs. Users can personalize various features, behaviors, and functions, creating robots tailored to their preferences and lifestyles. This level of customization can enhance user satisfaction and ensure that robots can better serve diverse populations, from elderly individuals seeking companionship to busy professionals needing assistance with daily tasks. The future of humanoid robotics holds immense potential for transforming how humans interact with technology. By focusing on enhanced capabilities, improved human-robot interaction, and addressing societal challenges, humanoid robots may soon become integral members of communities, enriching lives and streamlining operations across various sectors. ...Read more

Digital twin technology is not a new concept, but it came to limelight only when recently Internet of Things (IoT) made it available to all, cost-effectively. Witnessing that digital twin is gaining widespread adoption in today’s businesses; Gartner listed the technology as one of the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017. Digital twin is nothing but a virtual model of a process, product or service in an industry. The combination of the virtual and physical worlds enables the analysis of data and monitoring of a system’s functioning to develop solutions for any potential problem, proactively. The technology also helps in minimizing downtime, creating new opportunities, while helping in planning product innovations by using simulations. With digital twin technology, businesses can examine every step of the product transformation—from development phase to design and testing. How does digital twin technology actually work? The technology utilizes smart components that use sensors to extract real-time data of the physical model. These components later send the collected data to the other side through a cloud based system, where required insights are gathered using data analytics. Outcomes are optimized by a steady transfer of data. Not just the real-time data, but digital twin also makes use of the historical data to develop the most useful predictive analytics. To know the future needs and issues during the product development phase and respond accordingly, digital twin amalgamates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics. It helps businesses to predict the problem even before it caused in the physical system. It is an optimal way to scrutinize performance within minimum time and capital. ...Read more

Singapore  — The Digital Banker will launch the Digital CX Summit on 23 April 2026 at the PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore , bringing together global customer experience (CX) leaders, industry experts and trailblazers. The Summit builds on eight years of the Digital CX Awards and is expected to host more than 250 attendees and over 20 speakers from leading financial institutions worldwide. The programme will conclude with the Digital CX Awards Gala in the evening. Senior executives from retail and SME banking, wealth and private banking, wholesale banking, insurance, FinTech, and digital challengers across the world will convene to examine how CX is strengthening growth, loyalty, and trust across financial services. The Summit will feature C-Suite, Directors, and Head Experts in technology, customer experience, wealth, and transaction. Through fireside chats, panel discussions, interactive roundtables, and private workshops, the Summit will provide case-driven insights, regional benchmarks, and practical strategies for industry leaders steering transformation. The Digital CX Awards , returning for its 8th edition , will recognise outstanding financial institutions and leadership teams that have delivered exceptional digital customer experiences. This is the world’s largest repository of customer transformation projects run by worldwide FSIs and the only awards programme dedicated exclusively to digital CX in financial services. The Digital CX Awards provides an independent benchmark of excellence for the global industry. In 2025 has received over 1,000 submissions from FSIs across all continents further underpinning the year-on-year programme Call for Speakers, Sponsors, and Participants •  For speaking opportunities: Contact Yaroslava Bhandari at yaroslava.bhandari@digitalbankeronline.com •  For sponsorship enquiries: Contact Nadiah Jamaludin at nadiah.jamaludin@digitalbankeronline.com •  For attendee enquiries: Contact Susy A. at  enq@digitalbankeronline.com ...Read more