HP Introduces Intelligent Security Solutions to Drive Innovation, Reduce Risk

Proactive security measures enable organizations to leverage big data, cloud, mobility


KUALA LUMPUR, 14 September 2012 — HP today announced additions to its security solutions portfolio that enable enterprises to assess, transform, optimize and manage their security environments to proactively protect what matters.

Cloud, mobility and big data initiatives are helping organizations solve pressing challenges, while driving accelerated innovation, enhanced agility and improved financial management. However, these initiatives also can introduce big security concerns.

 Wong Loke Yeow & Richard Archdeacon , HP

According to new research conducted on behalf of HP, concerns around understanding security requirements for cloud services are top of mind for more than two-thirds of business and technology executives in Asia Pacific and Japan.  More than three quarters of those surveyed also indicated they are concerned about how to secure and consume big data. (1)

Almost two-thirds of those surveyed are concerned about mobile data loss or theft. In addition, more than half of respondents admitted that their organizations spend more time and money on reactive measures than on proactive risk management.

A reactive, perimeter-based approach to security is no longer sufficient. Enterprises need proactive, intelligent security solutions that span traditional and hybrid delivery models, and address the challenges brought on by these new shifts in IT.

“Cybersecurity threats are growing exponentially, and without a proactive information risk management strategy, enterprise growth, innovation and efficiencies are hindered,” said Wong Loke Yeow, Regional Marketing Director, Enterprise Security Products, Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific and Japan.

“HP helps clients protect what matters most to their organizations by delivering intelligent security solutions that prioritize security resources to help identify threats earlier and enable a faster response time,” said Richard Archdeacon, CTO, Strategy and Technology, Enterprise Security Services, Hewlett-Packard Company.

Intelligent security for the public sector
For public sector organizations, security threats are continuing to escalate, regulations are becoming more complex and budgets are shrinking. HP Security for Public Sector reflects the breadth and depth of HP’s security services capabilities to meet the exacting standards of these organizations worldwide.
New additions to this portfolio include:
• New features added to HP Assured Identity, a solution that offers simplified identity, credential and access management. It enables tighter controls against insider threats, robust identity proofing and reduced complexity around secure information sharing between collaborating organizations.
• Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis (CATA) on Demand lowers the cost of application security by addressing threats throughout the development life cycle.
• HP Security Operations Center (SOC) Consulting Services, designed for public sector clients outside the United States, enable clients to establish an on-site intelligent cybersecurity operations center. Clients also can acquire HP Services to assist in managing the center. This service complements HP’s U.S. Public Sector security consulting and security operations center service.

Proactively manage risk with intelligent security solutions 
HP also unveiled new products and services to provide clients transparency and control over their entire organization. New offerings include:
• HP Data Center Protection Services evaluate organizations’ existing security practices and provide actionable recommendations to help them optimize infrastructure and improve program management across the data center.
• HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager 6.0c is a powerful, scalable security monitoring and compliance solution that identifies and remediates cyberthreats faster than ever before. HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager rapidly identifies security threats across an organization’s infrastructure and prioritizes critical issues to reduce potential damage.
• HP TippingPoint NX Platform Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS) ensures protection across network devices, virtual machines, operating systems and business-critical applications by adding significant capacity for deep-packet traffic inspection. The new modular architecture is designed to adapt automatically to threats as they are discovered, while allowing organizations to save rack space and maintain consistent power consumption and cooling costs.

HP also announced a mobile application for IT security professionals that utilizes data from HP Digital Vaccine Labs (DVLabs) to monitor current and trending cyberthreats. HP Information Security Pulse, available at no additional cost, enables security professionals to rapidly determine and address risks that may affect their environment. The application is currently available for webOS, Apple iOS ®, Android™ and web browser platforms. 

Protecting against printer-based intrusions
HP’s intelligent security solutions also extend to print environments. Offerings include:
• HP Access Control (HP AC) Printing Solutions, expanded for the healthcare industry, enhance device security and improve companywide printing policies with secure authentication, secure pull printing, intelligent management and job accounting.
• HP Imaging and Printing Security Assessment reviews the print environment from a security and compliance perspective, minimizing the risks of unattended documents, sensitive data processing from a computer to a printer, and confidential information on device hard drives.
• Enhanced HP Imaging and Printing Security Center (IPSC), a policy-based solution, increases security automation while reducing risk through broader device and operating-system compatibility, expanded HP Instant-on Security device support and powerful password management capabilities.

HP also announced an industry first by surpassing 2.5 billion lines of code under subscription as part of its HP Fortify on Demand (FoD) application security Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. HP Fortify leads the industry with the capability to harden the attack surface of applications with both static and dynamic application testing for 21 languages, more than any other vendor. In addition, for mobile computing security, HP Fortify offers SaaS testing services for both the iOS and Android operating systems.  

Additional information about HP Enterprise Security solutions is available at www.hp.com/go/EnterpriseSecurity2012.

HP’s premier Europe, Middle East and Africa client event, HP Discover, takes place Dec. 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Apple's iPhone Dethroned at the High-End in 2Q12 while Smartphones set to Surpass Feature Phones in Malaysia by 2014, says IDC

Kuala Lumpur, September 13, 2012 – According to IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphones are set to represent 35% of the total mobile phone shipments in 2012, compared to 30% in 2011, and are forecasted to exceed 50% by 2014. IDC attributes the growth of smartphones in the nation to the increasing popularity of Android handsets and decreasing prices of entry-level smartphones.

Ryan Lai, Associate Market Analyst for Mobile Phone and Tablet research at IDC Asia/Pacific says, "In a segment previously dominated by Apple's iPhone, 2Q12 saw the iOS device dethroned as the king of high-end smartphones (more than RM1,500) for the first time since 2Q10 by Samsung’s Galaxy S III. The feat is even more significant considering that the Galaxy S III only arrived in the later part of 2Q12. However, Apple is set to rebound in the fourth quarter of 2012 when it releases its new iPhone in Malaysia."

HTC also experienced a breakout quarter in the smartphones segment, with its flagship model the One X placing third behind the iPhone. Overall, the high-end smartphone segment grew 33% in 2Q12 as compared to the same period last year and IDC expects the trend to continue into 2013.

Ryan adds, "We are witnessing a change in market dynamics. A growing number of Malaysian consumers now view Android smartphones to be as prestigious as the iPhone. Further growth in this segment will no longer be solely dependent on Apple, but will include Android vendors, mainly Samsung, HTC and Sony.”

Falling prices of entry-level smartphones are also eroding shipments of feature phones, particularly those priced above RM200. In the first half of 2012, 24% of smartphones shipments in Malaysia were priced below RM600, up from 14% in 2011. Ryan continues, "The main value proposition of a midrange feature phone is that you get smartphone-like features in a more affordable package. However, smartphone prices have fallen to such a point where many consumers themselves are asking why they would buy a smartphone-like device when with a little more money, they can get the real deal."

FIGURE 1: Malaysia Mobile Phone Shipment Share by Device Type, 2011-2014

Source: IDC Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, August 2012 

For more information about the research or to purchase this data, please contact Harsha Sundararaman at +65-6829-7716 or hsundararaman@idc.com. To set up an interview with Ryan Lai, please contact JC Ting at +603-2177-9215 or jting@idc.com

InfoWatch Expands its Global Presence in South East Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 - InfoWatch, a breakthrough global IT security leader announced today its partnership with DLP Technology SEA Sdn Bhd (DLP-SEA) as the authorised distributor for the InfoWatch product line in Malaysia. InfoWatch has an exclusive agreement in the region and further cements its commitment to develop and support the South East Asian market. The new partnership will see DLP-SEA distributing InfoWatch’s software products such as InfoWatch Traffic Monitor Enterprise, InfoWatch KRIBRUM and InfoWatch Crypto Storage Enterprise.

This venture sees DLP-SEA making a bold and aggressive move as it looks to curb the sudden growth in increase of unauthorized flow of information leakage in organizations recently particularly here in Malaysia. This partnership will also be looking to expand its security services into high level companies such as banks, government agencies and other large corporations that could be exposed. InfoWatch will be looking to underline its commitment to the South East Asia market by becoming a leading enterprise-level IT solution provider. This fresh new security leader to the region could ultimately take the South East Asian market by storm.

From left to right: 
Mr. ST Rubaneswaran, CEO - DLP Technology SEA Sdn Bhd | Mr. Alexander ‘Zarovsky, International Business Head, Inforwatch. |
Mr. Manish Dokania, International Sales Account Manager, Infowatch | Mr. Oleg ‘Morozov, Pre Sales Head, Infowatc.

Furthermore from looking to help improve the bigger corporations, InfoWatch and DLP-SEA will also be looking into smaller SMEs, SOHOs and MNC companies for their first level of marketing of this new product here in South East Asia. “With continued collaboration with our business partners, customers, government and our support from InfoWatch, we are confident of penetrating the market successfully. We aim to deliver the best possible protection and to achieve this we not only see what’s happening in our industry but also listen to our customer on what they need to be and to have a more secured IT environment” said Mr. Rubaneswaran, CEO of DLP Technology SEA Sdn. Bhd.

With the InfoWatch Traffic Monitor Enterprise, InfoWatch KRIBRUM and InfoWatch Crypto Storage Enterprise, each individual software offers a unique brand of solution catered specifically to different needs. For the InfoWatch Traffic Monitor Enterprise, you are provided with a comprehensive modular software solution designed to prevent leakage or unauthorized distribution of sensitive corporate data. The InfoWatch Crypto Storage Enterprise, acts as a client-server software solution features sensitive transparent data encryption (for laptops, desktops, USB drives, optical media, local and network folders), centralized management of information access rights and reporting.

Since the rise of social media in most organizations for example (blogs/twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn and etc.) in today’s 21st century, the InfoWatch KRIBRUM is a perfect fit for companies that wish to monitor and be on top of data & information exchange. InfoWatch KRIBRUM works brilliantly as it is a cloud-based social media monitoring solution to help companies manage exchange of information better and ultimately give businesses the edge in the world of online information. InfoWatch will serve as a more premium and exclusive IT security solution that offers only the best for your company.

“The world is being more connected each day, SME and Corporate’s need to be part of this or be left behind. Having said that the internet is a dangerous place for the unprepared. We provide the security for customer to connect with peace of mind.” explained Ruban.

MENANGI CABUTAN BERTUAH TELEFON PINTAR BLACKBERRY DAN GALAXY TAB DI MALAM MERAIKAN INOVASI AKAR UMBI (M1au) ANJURAN YAYASAN INOVASI MALAYSIA (YIM)

(Malay vesion)  Cyberjaya, 14 September 2012 –  Orang ramai berpeluang memenangi hadiah cabutan bertuah iaitu dua buah telefon pintar Blackberry Curve 3G 9300, sebuah Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 dan lain-lain lagi di konsert anjuran Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia (YIM) dan Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi (MOSTI) pada hari esok, Sabtu, 15 September 2012 bertempat di Pentas Utama Waterfront, Kuching, Sarawak.


Konsert yang dinamakan Malam Meraikan Inovasi Akar Umbi (M1au) tersebut bermula jam 7.30malam sehingga 10.00malam dan akan menampilkan artis-artis tempatan seperti Nisa Aldina, Carma Group, Kumpulan Bangra, tarian dan nyanyian tradisional serta banyak lagi. Para pengunjung yang ingin merebut peluang untuk memenangi hadiah tersebut boleh mendapatkan borang cabutan bertuah bermula pada pukul 6 petang di booth YIM.

Konsert tersebut turut dihadiri oleh YB Datuk Hj. Fadillah B. Hj. Yusof, Timbalan Menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi (MOSTI), YB Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, Menteri Perumahan Sarawak dan Pelancongan Sarawak serta YBhg Dr Mazalan Kamis, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif YIM.

Malam Meraikan Inovasi Akar Umbi (M1au) adalah satu pengisian lain bagi program JEJAK INOVASI bersempena TAHUN SAINS DAN GERAKAN INOVASI 2012. Program ini akan menjadi platform untuk mengiktiraf dan menghargai idea serta produk inovasi yang telah  dijejaki bertujuan menzahirkan pemikiran kreatif dan inovatif di kalangan rakyat Malaysia. Konsert ini juga diharap akan merangsang minat terhadap inovasi di kalangan masyarakat dengan menampilkan contoh-contoh inovasi akar umbi di sepanjang prgram dalam suasana penuh ceria dan interaktif serta menghiburkan.

YIM merupakan sebuah agensi dibawah MOSTI yang telah ditubuhkan pada 2008 atas kelulusan Kabinet untuk mempromosikan dan menyemai sifat kreatif dan inovatif dikalangan rakyat Malaysia khususnya golongan akar umbi.

Companies are more concerned about their employees’ performance than IT security

PETALING JAYA, September 14, 2012 - Keeping employers off certain sites and blocking the launch of third-party applications are among the most popular ways of ensuring IT security, a survey has found. According to a study conducted by B2B International in July 2012, companies are most likely to restrict access to online games, with 71% of the IT professionals surveyed saying this was part of their strategy.

Slightly less popular methods include restricting or banning social networking sites – a measure mentioned by 68% of those surveyed. From this, it’s possible to conclude that IT specialists risk focusing more on employees’ performance, rather than infrastructure security.

The results also cover measures which are directly related to infrastructure security and data safety. For example, 50% of companies have restricted or prohibited the use of file exchange services, and 47% have enforced similar rules for connecting external devices to work computers.

More worryingly, though, 43% of IT specialists have already faced deliberate or accidental data leakage due to employee actions. This significant figure suggests there is insufficient control in terms of storing and communicating corporate information.

It’s important to remember that any bans or restrictions should be applied beyond workstations within the corporate network and cover other computers such as corporate laptops which can be connected to public Wi-Fi networks. Here, corporate security policies are ineffective and dedicated software is needed. Such solutions are available as part of Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows. Its Web Control module allows system administrators to block or restrict access to certain websites, social services and online games.

They can be blocked automatically, or according to manually specified criteria or blacklists. Web Control makes it possible to introduce separate security policies for different user groups as well as flexibly restrict access to certain resources during work and non-work time.

The full report on B2B International’s July 2012 survey results is available athttp://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/pdf/kaspersky_global_it-security-risks-survey_report_eng_final.pdf.

CA Technologies Delivers Converged Infrastructure Management Solution to Help Enterprises and Service Providers Offer a Superior and Differentiated Customer Experience

Customers Can Now Resolve Performance Problems up to 25 Times Faster* and Reduce Total Cost by as Much as 50 Percent** with CA Infrastructure Management

Kuala Lumpur, September 14, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new version of CA Infrastructure Management (CA IM), the cornerstone of the company’s converged infrastructure management solution that enables a superior and differentiated customer experience. By integrating elements of CA Technologies Service Assurance portfolio, CA IM quickly translates volumes of disparate performance data into actionable insight delivered in unified, user-specific views that help enterprise and service provider customers cost effectively improve service quality, predictability and efficiency.

“CIOs have become Chief Experience Officers as the customer experience becomes an increasingly powerful weapon in today’s competitive world,” said Stephen Miles, vice president, Service Assurance, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies. “Cloud, virtualisation and mobile growth have changed the way users consume IT-related services, making the IT function more important to the customer experience. We developed CA Infrastructure Management to help our enterprise and service provider customers capture, engage and retain customers by offering a superior and differentiated customer experience. 

A new study shows that when customers act on the insight delivered by CA IM, service problems can be resolved as much as 25 times faster*. And we estimate it can be done at up to 50 percent less total cost**.”

Increases in volume and types of traffic, data and devices on the Internet, coupled with outdated methods, processes and tools to manage them, creates a level of IT complexity that challenges IT organisations as they strive to meet soaring customer expectations. 

CA Infrastructure Management addresses these challenges by offering specialised functionality, sophisticated analytics capabilities, massive scalability and adaptability for existing environments. The solution provides IT teams easy access to graphic displays of the specific information they need to improve service quality and deliver a superior customer experience with less effort and reduced costs. In particular, CA IM helps: 

·         Enterprise IT personnel manage rapid growth of bring your own device (BYOD), video and application complexity in heavily virtualised infrastructures;

·         Communication Service Providers simplify and accelerate 4G network rollouts; and

·         Managed Service Providers create new sources of revenue and onboard new clients faster. 

“Time means everything to enterprise IT and service provider operators, because the slightest delay in access to or performance of online services can quickly have a negative impact on customer/user experience,” said Jim Frey, managing research director, Enterprise Management Associates. “CA Technologies has completed a major effort to converge its infrastructure management solution with the goal of saving time in recognising and mitigating experience-impacting incidents and problems. Such approaches can transform the way technology support organisations manage complex physical, virtual, cloud and mobile environments by accelerating operations efficiency and putting teams in position to proactively assure high quality service experience.”



When combined with other Service Assurance solutions, CA IM provides customers with comprehensive service visibility to help ensure the availability and performance of business services and the infrastructures they rely on. This convergence of technologies helps provide a superior customer experience through:

·         Converged Application and Infrastructure: End-to-end application response time monitoring that tracks, measures and analyses application performance across the network infrastructure, compares the response time against intelligent baselines and thresholds, and alerts on any performance deterioration to deliver application-aware infrastructure management.



·         Converged Functional Domains: An advanced architecture that offers agent-less collection and state-of-the-art aggregation for comprehensive collection and analysis of performance, fault and flow data that spans multiple functional areas across network, systems and application domains.

·         Converged Networks: Integrated performance management for network-based voice and video, including Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Microsoft® Lync®, and AVAYA platforms. Customers can use the solution to track, evaluate and report on key performance metrics to help ensure quality of experience and network quality of service for unified communications.

·         Converged Analytics: Dynamic, federated performance analytics that span the entire infrastructure to determine baselines, calculate trends, establish thresholds, detect anomalies and trigger automatic investigation. Results are delivered in converged, contextual views for actionable intelligence based on the user’s role.

“CA Infrastructure Management streamlines operations and improves efficiency by offering a single source of actionable insight for performance, availability, flow, capacity and application response, delivered through pre-defined dashboards that can be easily modified as needs change,” said Tony Testa, principal architect – Enterprise Management Services, CIBER, part of a community of more than 500 customers and partners that provided input during the solution’s development. “This frees IT teams to spend more time proactively managing the environment, rather than managing the process of extracting and gathering data from different tools.”

“CA Infrastructure Management enables MSPs to deliver differentiated services that sustain profitability and growth by supporting native multi-tenancy that drives economies of scale,” said Herman Van den Broeck, senior consultant, Simac ICT Belgium. “The intelligent solution captures and filters relevant performance data on behaviour that requires attention and then delivers comprehensive, contextual views in real-time. Both highly skilled and less experienced staff can absorb, understand and take appropriate action to help ensure end-users have a quality experience with the services.”  

CA Services and CA Education support CA Infrastructure Management with implementation offerings including foundation services to rapidly deploy the solution to meet business requirements and acceleration services to extend the value of the foundation implementation with additional capabilities such as multi-tenancy support. Strategic consulting, managed services and instructor-led Web-based training for customers and partners are also available.

* As shown in a study conducted by Principled Technologies (PT), in which PT was retained by CA Technologies to compare the new version of CA Infrastructure Management with the previous version.
** According to estimates from CA Technologies comparing the new version of CA Infrastructure Management with the previous version.

Microsoft Announces New Mice and Keyboards Designed for Windows 8

Latest mice and keyboards are the natural choice for mobility and productivity in Windows.

PETALING JAYA, 13 September 2012 — For the past 30 years, Microsoft Corp. has introduced hardware that helps people interact better and more easily with Windows. Today, Microsoft Hardware continues the tradition with the introduction of new products that work beautifully with Windows 8.

Beginning with the introduction of the Microsoft Mouse, the Microsoft Hardware Group has designed its hardware to specifically light up features in Windows. Optimized for Windows 8, Microsoft’s new lineup of mice and keyboards are loaded with features including Bluetooth connectivity, BlueTrack Technology for tracking on virtually any surface,* and specific functionality that gives customers a fast and fluid way to navigate in their world with Windows 8. The hardware is designed by Microsoft and optimized for Windows desktop, laptop and tablet so users can have the best computing experience for any lifestyle.

“The newly launched Microsoft Hardware devices are designed to be “better together” with Windows 8. Microsoft understands the needs of today’s fast paced society and as such, has combined mobility, practicality, comfort and style into its latest Hardware range. From desktop and notebook to ultrabook and tablet PCs, Microsoft’s newest accessories are the perfect companion for Windows,” said Sunny Ooi, Consumer Channels Group Director, Microsoft Malaysia.

Microsoft also emphasized that the launch of these newly integrated software was a calculated move, not only in celebrating the impending launch of Windows 8, but also to celebrate its presence in Malaysia for the past 20 years.

“In conjunction with Windows 8 and Microsoft Malaysia’s 20th Anniversary, a promotion offering 30 percent off the retail price of these Hardware devices will be offered. It is part of Microsoft’s commitment to inspire digital lifestyles and transform the way Malaysians improve their lives through technology experiences,” added Ooi.

Product Availability
All products will be available at major retailers from October 2012 onwards. More information about these and other Microsoft Hardware products can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/hardware.

IDC appoints Charles Reed Anderson as its Telecom Lead for Asia/Pacific

Kuala Lumpur, September 14, 2012 – IDC today announces the appointment of Charles Reed Anderson as Associate Vice President, Head -- Telecom Practice, Mobility Lead, IDC Asia/Pacific.

As Associate Vice President, Head -- Telecom Practice, Charles is responsible for leading IDC's Telecom Programs across Asia/Pacific. In this role, he will head IDC's telecoms research and strategy for the Asia/Pacific region, and work closely with regional and country teams to provide thought leadership, market insights and advisory services to IDC’s customers. Charles will be instrumental in assisting IDC's Telecoms customers to strengthen their competitive positioning, enhance their product and services portfolios, and penetrate new markets.

In addition, Charles will also co-lead IDC's Mobility Practice in Asia/Pacific. Charles, who has vast experience throughout the mobility ecosystem, will serve as one of the key points of contact for IDC's CIO customers and their business leaders on topics such as Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) strategy and solution development, the Consumerization of the Enterprise, and the Monetization of Data.

Now more than ever, consumer and enterprise customers are demanding complex solutions from their service providers, and re-thinking how they can take their value-added services from concept through to commercial launch. IDC will be tapping into Charles' expertise in fixed and mobile solutions to assist its customers address these new challenges, including the bundling of multiple products from multiple vendors to create a single solution to take to market. Charles will also be tasked to advise customers on the other go-to-market components (including sales strategy and enablement) that must be met to ensure a successful commercial launch once these complex solution ecosystems are in place.

Charles’ experience working for service providers in the value-added solutions space provides him with unique insights on how customers can leverage IDC’s analysts and consultants to assist their market analysis, business strategy developments and go-to-market processes. His focus will be to leverage IDC’s unique skills and knowledge to enhance customers' existing business processes rather than have customers outsource these functions to IDC.

Charles has over 20 years experience in the technology sector. In the last 13 years, he focused on levering emerging technologies to drive business transformation across a wide range of industry verticals. Prior to this appointment, he specialized in driving the adoption of value-added services in fixed- and mobile- telecommunications industries in Europe and Asia while working for leading telecommunication firms, including Vodafone, O2/Telefonica, and BT Global Services.

Charles has extensive experience working for and with fixed and mobile telecoms firms to design and deliver strategic engagements, including market segmentation, competitive positioning, market entry strategy, vendor analysis and partnering strategy, portfolio road-mapping, and data solutions strategy.

Charles obtained an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and a Minor in Economics from Northern Illinois University.
For more information, contact JC Ting at email: jting@idc.com

Symantec and Red Hat Announce Joint Solutions for Enhanced Reliability, Disaster Recovery and Performance

Companies Announce Expanded Collaboration in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – 14 September 2012 – Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) and Red Hat, Inc., (NYSE: RHT), today announced an extended collaboration to deliver solutions that help customers deploy agile private and hybrid clouds and create highly resilient datacenters. The expanded relationship spans engineering, marketing, support, and sales groups in both companies. Based on proven real-world deployments, the new solutions will harness the power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Symantec storage and availability solutions to deliver higher availability and increased agility while helping organisations deploy business-critical applications with confidence.

Many organisations are quickly adopting Linux as their platform of choice as they look for new ways to stay competitive in today’s market and face increasing costs with flat IT budgets. While the flexible nature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has led to the solution becoming the strategic platform of choice for enterprise private cloud deployments, the need to ensure resiliency from a service level perspective becomes increasingly more important. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is deployed by more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 while Symantec, as the industry leader in protecting business-critical applications, brings a robust suite of storage and availability management solutions to provide highly available multi-tier applications and business continuity across multiple storage platforms, operating systems and virtualisation platforms. Symantec’s storage and availability management solutions are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500.

“Many organisations in Malaysia constantly need to do more with fewer resources, they often turn to adopting Linux to help deal with flat IT budgets and increasing costs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the fastest-growing platform for Symantec’s storage management and high availability software as an increasing number of customers are deploying Linux to increase agility and stay competitive,” said Alex Ong, country director of Symantec Malaysia. “Symantec is strengthening our partnership with Red Hat to ensure companies are confident that their information is protected as they modernise their data centers and build resilient private clouds.”

“Working closely together, Red Hat and Symantec offer joint customers tremendous value with an open source, secure pathway to modernize their legacy IT architectures,” said Damien Wong, General Manager, ASEAN at Red Hat. “We’re pleased to expand our long-term collaboration with Symantec across Thailand and bring our leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform and Symantec’s compelling technologies together to enable our joint customers with further choice and flexibility for their IT infrastructures.”

Al Gillen, vice president, system software, IDC, said, “As we’ve written previously, IDC believes Linux will be one of two primary operating systems that will power public cloud infrastructure. Symantec and Red Hat teaming to improve data availability and disaster recovery in data centers has the added benefit of bridging these datacenters to Linux-based cloud infrastructure, enabling today's enterprise customers to leverage cloud computing where it makes best sense."

Together, Symantec and Red Hat offer customers a unique opportunity to help manage mission-critical solutions applicable to cloud and datacenter deployments through delivery of a more flexible and open environment in terms of hardware, software and operating systems. The joint solutions will provide automated off-premise disaster recovery; improved storage management for multi-operating system, multi-storage datacenters; and cost-effective failover for Oracle databases.

Automated Off-Premise Disaster Recovery
Cluster Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides off-premise disaster recovery for organisations operating over long distances, automating global failover of multi-tiered applications to any disaster recovery (DR) site. In addition, Cluster Server manages the data replication layer and provides a single-click DR experience, enabling customers to simplify their DR workflow. The solution provides non-disruptive failover testing to ensure that recovery is configured to work properly when it is needed – whether the downtime is from power loss, natural disasters or other causes.

Improved Storage Management for Multi-OS, Multi-Storage Data Centers
As organisations purchase and implement storage solutions from multiple vendors, each point solution introduces operational complexity into the storage environment and often results in the lack of critical data availability across heterogeneous environments. Storage Foundation Dynamic Multi-Pathing running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a uniform cross-platform solution that eases management across any OS and all storage platforms. With this solution, organisations have their choice of cost-effective storage and have the ability to negotiate better prices on storage hardware. In addition, hardware can be exchanged without disruption and without the installation of new point tools through a single unified data management platform.

Cost-Effective Failover for Oracle Databases
Many organisations rely on Oracle databases to increase productivity and enable users to make faster and more informed decisions. However, due to the high business dependence on these databases, downtime results in lost revenue, damaged brand reputation and severe penalties for not meeting service levels. Storage Foundation Cluster File System and Cluster Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux provide very fast Oracle database failover, enabling organisations to deploy less costly single-instance Oracle databases while achieving sub-minute failover times. In addition, Cluster Server can orchestrate multi-tiered application failover to simplify the management of complex real-world application environments and achieve true business service resiliency.

Technology from Symantec’s market-leading Cluster File System, Cluster Server and Storage Foundation, along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, will form the basis for the joint architecture. Symantec and Red Hat will also team to provide additional engineering, marketing and support. More information on the new solutions will be made available at a later date.

Intel Labs Tunes into a Wireless Future Where Everything that Computes is Connected

KUALA LUMPUR, Sep. 14, 2012 – In his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner  said, “In the future, if it computes, it connects. From the simplest embedded sensors to the most advanced cloud datacenters, we’re looking at techniques to allow all of them to connect without wires.”

Rattner demonstrated for the first time a working, all-digital WiFi radio, dubbed a “Moore’s Law Radio." The CTO explained that an all-digital radio follows Moore’s Law by scaling in area and energy efficiency with such digital chip processes as Intel’s latest 22nm tri-gate technology. System-on-chip designs for smartphones and tablet computers would be the most likely spot for the all digital radios to be integrated.

The small size and lower cost of integrated digital radios will enable a host of new applications from wearable devices to "The Internet of Things" where devices such as home appliances with sensors can communicate with each other, exchange data and can be operated remotely.

Rattner went on to describe a next-generation wireless standard called WiGig that operates in the millimeter wavelengths of the radio spectrum and delivers bandwidths well over 5 gigabits per second. The WiGig standard is an industry-wide effort to consolidate a number of proprietary 60 GHz wireless technologies under the existing WiFi standard.

“WiGig is so fast it will let you wirelessly dock your enabled Ultrabook™, tablet or smartphone without wires,” said Rattner. “Even multiple displays can be docked at one time.”

Delivering Convenience and Increasing Battery Life for Cloud Connected Devices
Users love the ability to receive email and social media updates while their devices are asleep. To bring this always on, always connected capability to the Ultrabook™ platform, Intel® Smart Connect technology currently wakes up the Ultrabook™ just long enough to receive the incoming packet traffic and then it goes back into standby mode to ensure long battery life.

Showing how the benefits of Smart Connect technology could be enhanced to include active operation for file transfer and video streaming, Rattner demonstrated “Spring Meadow,” which manages communication between the cloud and the device more intelligently. By pre-processing incoming network traffic and proactively managing traffic flow, “Spring Meadow” makes more efficient use of the host processor, allowing it to remain in a low-power state longer without impacting system performance.

Eliminating Passwords, Increasing Security
Passwords remain the common, yet inconvenient way of protecting access to valuable or sensitive information. In an effort to eliminate the need for passwords, Intel Labs has developed a replacement scheme called Client Based Authentication Technology. Not only does it replace passwords, it dramatically simplifies and accelerates the process for accessing bank accounts, stock portfolios and other cloud-based personal information.

The technology allows the user to authenticate once to the physical device such as an Ultrabook™ or smartphone using a biometric sensor and then lets the device automatically authenticate itself with one or more cloud-based services. Reading a person’s unique vein patterns in the palm of the hand, the user is then directly taken to his or her bank account, social network page or any kind of secure service. It also provides presence monitoring capability that locks the device and the secure service connection when the user puts his or her device down. A new biometric scan unlocks the platform and immediately restores the previous secure service connections. The whole process is virtually transparent, easy to use and more secure.

Cloud-Based Radio Access Networks, Future of Wireless Broadband
Rattner was joined onstage by Dr. Chih-Lin I, chief scientist at the China Mobile Research Institute in Beijing, to discuss the research collaboration between Intel Labs and China Mobile to design and prototype a full-scale Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN). C-Ran is an alternative to traditional RAN, which is the basis for modern cellular communications. Instead of simply moving the proprietary base station hardware to the data center, it is replaced by standard Intel-based servers running a software-defined radio application. Dr. I explained that C-RAN technology will dramatically reduce both capital and operational expenses for wireless service providers while providing superior levels of wireless services to users with fewer dropped connections during periods of peak demand.

Rattner described another research area, called a Video Aware Wireless Network (VAWN), where both service providers and end users will benefit from the latest wireless research. VAWN is the focus of a joint academic research program sponsored by Intel, Cisco and Verizon. With mobile video traffic expected to grow significantly over the next 5 years, according to Cisco Visual Networking Index, wireless networks could be constrained and video quality limited without new innovations. VAWN aims to increase the streaming video capacity of wireless networks while improving the viewing experience by optimizing network performance on an end-to-end basis.

National Instruments, TPM and SME Corp. Malaysia set-up academy and innovation nucleus to strengthen and empower Malaysian SMEs

• National Instruments, TPM Corporation and SME Corp. Malaysia sign MoU of collaboration to establish the National Instruments Academy & Innovation Nucleus 
• NI-AIN to champion SME innovation, talent development and intellectual property creation

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, 13 September 2012 – National Instruments (NI) announced the establishment of the National Instruments Academy & Innovation Nucleus (NI-AIN), in collaboration with Technology Park Malaysia Corporation Sdn Bhd (TPM) and SME Corp. Malaysia The three parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) witnessed by YB Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili today in Putrajaya.

The NI-AIN innovation nucleus, which was conceived during the PEMANDU E&E 2.0 Lab in April this year, is one of the Entry Point Projects (EPP) under the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) which is geared towards enabling and supporting the building of a “Test and Measurement Innovation Hub” in the industrial corridors of  Malaysia.

 (Left to Right)
1. MR. VICTOR MIERES, VICE PRESIDENT FOR ASIA PACIFIC, NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS 
2. MR. CHANDRAN NAIR, MANAGING DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS ASEAN
3. YBHG DATO’ HAFSAH HASHIM, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, SME CORPORATION MALAYSIA
4. YB DATUK SERI PANGLIMA DR. MAXIMUS JOHNITY ONGKILI, MINISTER OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
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6. YBHG DATO’ HJ MOHD AZMAN BIN HJ SHAHIDIN, PRESIDENT / CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, TECHNOLOGY PARK MALAYSIA CORPORATION SDN BHD
7. YANG BERUSAHA MR. CHRIS TAN, DIRECTOR OF E&E, PEMANDU


As a shared laboratory infrastructure powered by NI technology platforms and tools, NI-AIN aims to lower entry barriers and enable access to facilities for SMEs to nurture innovation, develop the talent pool, build capabilities and capacities and promote intellectual property creation amongst small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. The shared laboratory will be hosted at Technology Park of Malaysia and is expected to be fully operational by Q1 2013.

NI-AIN will house eight unique technology laboratories that are fully equipped with the latest NI hardware and software in automated test, control and measurement. These labs will be used for training and certification, human capital development (HCD) in Science, Technology & Innovation (STI)  and enabling local SMEs to innovate in vertical industry applications such as control & instrumentation, radio frequency & wireless applications, green technology, energy, transportation, oil & gas and agro-science.

“As we move towards our aspirations of a high income, innovation- led and knowledge-based economy, the setting-up of the NI-AIN is timely as we embrace and operationalize the various transformation programmes set out by the Government”, said YB Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili. He added, “To achieve these aspirations the role of technology and innovation in contributing to our national economic growth has become strategically critical and pertinent in this competitive and complex global environment.”

“National Instruments is honoured to be part of the ETP initiatives. We thank our partners, TPM and  SME Corp. Malaysia for this opportunity and look forward to working closely with them as well as other Malaysian Government agencies in empowering SMEs to become innovators,” says Chandran Nair, Managing Director, National Instruments Southeast Asia.

As part of its expanding presence in Asia and to cater to a growing industrial customer base in Malaysia and Asia as a whole, NI is investing USD80 Million in a state-of-the-art research and development (R&D) and manufacturing facility in Penang and the first phase is due for completion & operation by 2013.

Commenting on the initiative, YBhg Dato’ Hj Mohd Azman Hj Shahidin, President & Chief Executive Officer of TPM was quoted as saying: “The NI-AIN facility which is designed to promote Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) amongst SMEs will drive growth – both at the company and national level. We are confident we will be able to witness ground-breaking ideas and innovations emerging from NI-AIN in the near future.”

“As the backbone of the Malaysian economy, SMEs comprise 99 % of all businesses in the country. The growth that Malaysia is experiencing today is undoubtedly due to the opportunities being created by these SMEs. We are envisioning that NI-AIN will become an SME incubator centre for high-value design and engineering services and in the long-run a full-fledged technology commercialisation hub,” says Dato’ Hafsah Hashim, CEO of SME Corp. Malaysia.

IBM Corporate Service Corps lands in Kuching

Kuching, 13 September 2012 – IBM announced on Monday the start of its seventh Corporate Service Corps (CSC) assignment in Malaysia, the first in Kuching, Sarawak. A team of 12 volunteers, identified as high achievers and potential leaders from across the globe, arrived in the state capital to deploy essential projects that are set to help local organizations from diverse industries to develop and enhance the necessary skills required to grow in the global marketplace.

Here for one month, the volunteers from Argentina, Brazil, India, Mexico, Switzerland and the USA will impart their skills and expertise with the Sarawak State Library, Sarawak Cultural Village and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, in establishing fundamental marketing and data management training capabilities for the organizations. This is with the aim to help the organizations reach out more effectively and better serve their respective communities.

The team began the CSC assignment officially yesterday. Present at the opening session were representatives from Sarawak State Library, Sarawak Cultural Village and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, hosted by Tang Choeng Weng, Geographic Expansion Leader, IBM Malaysia. (Back row, standing,1st left). 


About Corporate Service Corps
The Corporate Service Corps (CSC) is part of IBM's Global Citizen's Portfolio, a suite of investment programs to help IBM employees enhance their skills and expertise in order to become global leaders, professionals and empowered citizens of the 21st century workforce.  It also includes matching accounts for lifelong learning and enhanced transition services to create second career opportunities. Australian Business Volunteers (ABV) is the Service Corps partner for participants assigned to Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Since its launch in 2008, the Corporate Service Corps program has sent over 1,400 participants on over 120 teams to more than 20 countries around the world. The participants come from over 50 countries and have served communities in Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. The program continues to expand to new locations each year.

For more information on CSC, please visit http://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps.

Moola offers free shopping and convenience for shoppers via mobile app

Kuala Lumpur, 13 September 2012 –ICT Utopia Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of 1 Utopia Berhad, has launched “Moola” for shoppers at Plaza Low Yat today.  Moola, the first-ever Cash-Back Lifestyle Programme aims to elevate consumer’s shopping experience with never-ending rewards. This move is in response to consumer demands for lower prices, higher quality, better selection, and the ability to reach businesses through all possible channels anytime of the day. Unlike conventional rewards programme, Moola is an evolutionary mobile programme which runs on mobile app technology and QR code. This is specially designed with consumers’ convenience in mind whereby shoppers will get to enjoy free shopping and enjoy the best deals around without the hassle of cards in their wallet. The event was launched by Managing Director of 1 Utopia, Victor Chin, General Manager of Low Yat Group, Michael Lee together with the management team of ICT Utopia.

 “Moola is more than just a loyalty programme in town. Moola is as cool as cash serves as an alternate payment for its members or Moola Frenz to pay in full or offset the purchase price instantly when they dine, shop for ICT products, travel, and even fashion within its network of Moola Shopz.  Moola indeed offers maximum convenience - the ability to pay for goods and services without cash, using what is arguably the consumer's most constant ‘companion', the smartphones! No lengthy process or plastic cards, just scan and you are done with the deal,” said Executive Director of 1 Utopia, Kenny Khow.

(From left-right) ICT Utopia Sdn Bhd Moola Project Director, Ryan Loh; ICT Utopia Sdn Bhd Managing Director, Wayne Chong; ICT Utopia Head of Marketing, Aaron Choo; 1 Utopia Executive Director, Kenny Khow; 1 Utopia Managing Director, Victor Chin and Plaza Low Yat General Manager, Michael Lee.

Moola is unique compared to others in the market as it offers flexible redemption at any Moola Shopz with the Moola earned and accumulated. Each purchase earns Moola, which can be used to dine at various restaurants and F&B outlets, shop for ICT products including travel and fashion. Moola keeps on rewarding shoppers with “FreeMakan” vouchers and greater deals as they utilise their earned Moola for greater savings and value for money.  Furthermore, Moola Frenz will get to enjoy free lifetime membership with no administrative charges or joining fee.

According to Kenny, “Compared to the traditional ‘linear’ shopping experience, Moola’s multi-channel commerce shopping experience benefit merchants by increasing impulse purchases with a knock-on effect on profit as Moola provides real time information to consumers about promotions and new products. Smart use of social media is another key aspect of Moola, as shopping decisions are heavily influenced by opinions via social media and online reviews. No business is immune from the mobile segment with massive consumer shifting to smartphones. Moola merchant affinity programme via customised mobile app technology will drive thousands of new customers to participating merchant stores while enhancing their sales, profitability and customer loyalty within the Moola Shopz network.

As many are aware, the mobile phone penetration rate in Malaysia has hit an overwhelming record of 127.7% and smartphone users’ penetration rate is expected to reach 80% by end of this year. In addition to that, in a study commissioned by PayPal, it was revealed that 642,770 Malaysians made a purchase with a mobile device in 2011, compared to 253,960 the previous year. Smartphone transactions were worth RM337 million, representing close to three quarters of the total mobile commerce market, compared to RM108 million through tablets. These figures augur well for Moola, and ICT Utopia is confident that Moola will attain 2 million memberships within a year from now.

ICT Utopia allocated RM1,500,000.00 on its A&P budget to build greater brand awareness of Moola. Currently, ICT Utopia has recruited 25 F&B merchants and 40 ICT retail merchants in Klang Valley and Plaza Low Yat, which will continue on to Northern and Southern region by early next year. ICT Utopia targets to recruit 650 mix merchants across the different business segments.  To date, ICT Utopia has rolled out social media, on-ground merchant activities, contest and soon radio to build greater Moola awareness.
 
Now, every Moola Frenz or Moola member will stand a chance to drive home a new 3 series BMW car as a grand prize. The nationwide contest is opened to all Moola Frenz who spends above RM500 per transaction at ICT Moola Shopz and RM50 at F&B Moola Shopz. All the participants need to do is to register the serial no of the contest form in their Moola app and mail the contest form to our service centre or drop it at a special box located at Plaza Low Yat.   Not only that, the top spender and top frequent spender will get a chance to walk away attractive prizes spanning from dining, ICT, fashion to travel in every quarter of the year towards the grand prize finale.

In conjunction with the Moola launch, Moola Frenz gets to enjoy free i-Milik service instead of paying RM10 per ICT product registration as non-member. Moola Frenz can register unlimited number of ICT products under i-Milik during this 6 months promotional period till end March 2013. i-Milik is a crime prevention system specially designed to protect and prevent the public from buying and possessing stolen ICT products.

The Group is confident that Moola will serve as a catalyst in the evolution of the Malaysian mobile lifestyle, and has set to achieve an internal target with gross profit of 7.2 million, 47.52 million and 138.24 million for the first three years of operations. 1 Utopia recently posted a Group’s revenue of RM265.0 million and profit of RM0.234 million for its half year financial performance ended 31 May 2012. The Group, formerly known as Tejari Technologies Berhad, has reinvented and diversified to two other lines of businesses; Technology and Creative apart from Engineering. The diversity through acquisitions of ICT technology companies has placed 1 Utopia in a more competitive position in terms of financial strength, stability and innovation capability. This was well reflected in the positive turnaround of the Group recent years, which reported a profit after tax of RM1.748 million in 2011 and RM0.948 million in 2010 respectively.

Moola 通过移动应用程序为购物人士呈献自由购物和便利

吉隆坡 9 月 13 日讯 – 1 Utopia 有限公司的独资子公司 ICT Utopia 私人有限公司今天在刘蝶广场为购物人士推出了 "Moola"。Moola 乃是首创的现金回赠生活方式计划，宗旨在于通过永无止境的奖赏以提升消费人者的购物体验。与传统奖励计划有别的是，这项行动是回应消费人对更低价格，更高素质，更佳选择，以及能够在一天的任何时候通过所有可能管道接触商家的需求。Moola 是一种运行于移动应用程序和QR 代码的革新移动计划，它运用移动应用程序尖端先进科技，乃是专门为了给顾客带来方便而设计的，让购物人士可获享自由购物和并享受市面上最优惠的价格，而无需随身携带各种卡。该活动是由1 Utopia 董事经理 Victor Chin，刘蝶集团董事经理李永强连同1 Utopia的管理层团队推介的。

"Moola 不单单是城中的一项忠诚计划，它有如现金般和可充作会员或 Moola Frenz 的另类付账选项，以便在 Moola Shopz 网络内光顾餐饮店，购买资讯通讯科技产品，旅游，甚至时装时缴付全额或即刻抵消购价。通过堪称消费人的最忠实同伴，即智能电话，Moola 确实提供了最大的方便 - 即免付现金就能获得货品和服务。更无需冗长的手续或塑料卡，只需扫描就能完成交易，"  1 Utopia Berhad 的执行董事 Kenny Khow 透露。

与市场上其他计划相比之下，Moola 是独一无二的，它呈献在任何 Moola Shopz 灵活兑换的便利和赚取及累积 Moola。每一次消费皆可赚取 Moola，这些积分适用于各餐馆和饮食店，购买资讯通讯科技产品及旅游和时装。Moola 继续通过 " FreeMakan" 礼券和更佳优惠以回馈购物人士，他们可利用所赚取的 Moola 以节省更多和购买物有所值产品。此外，Moola Frenz 将获享免费的终生会员籍而无需缴付行政费或加入费。

Kenny 表示，"与传统的 '直线' 购物体验相比之下，Moola 的多管道商务购物体验可通过提高即兴购物欲望而使商家受惠，对盈利带来连锁效应，这是因为Moola能为消费人提供关于促销活动和新产品的即时资讯。明智使用社交媒体乃是Moola 的另一重要优势，因为购买决定深深受到社交媒体和在线评述影响。随着大量消费人转移至智能电话之后，任何业务皆无法对移动领域视若无睹。Moola 商家亲和计划通过度身定制的移动应用程序科技以鼓励数以千计的新顾客光顾参与商店，同时提升它们的营业额，盈利和 Moola Shopz 网络内的顾客忠诚度。

"众所周知，移动电话在马来西亚的渗透率已达到铺天盖地的 127.7% 纪录，而智能电话用户的渗透率预料将于今年底达到 80%。此外，一项由 PayPal 委托的调查显示，2011 年有 642,770 马来西亚人购买移动器材，前一年则有 253,960 人。智能电话交易总值为 RM3 亿 3 千7 百万，几乎相当于三个季度的移动商业市场总值，相比之下，平板电脑市场值 RM1 亿零 8 百万。这些数字对 Moola 极为有利，ICT Utopia 相信 Moola 将可在从现在起的一年内达到 2 百万会员目标，" Kenny 补充道。

1Utopia 已在其广告与宣传预算案下拨出 RM 1,500,000.00 以建立 Moola 的品牌知名度。在目前，1 Utopia 已在巴生河流域和刘蝶广场招募了 25 家饮食商和 40 家资讯通讯科技零售商，并将在明年初推广到北马和南马。ICT Utopia 的目标是招募不同领域的 650 家混合商家。至今，ICT Utopia 已推出社交媒体，实地商家活动，竞赛和即将通过电台来提升Moola 的知名度。

在目前，每一位 Moola Frenz 或 Moola 会员都有机会赢取一份钜奖，即一部崭新的 3 series BMW 车子。该全国性竞赛是开放予所有在 ICT Moola Shopz 每次交易超过RM500 和在 F&B  Moola Shopz 每次交易超过 RM50 的 Moola Frenz 参加。所有参加者只需将参赛表格上的系列号码登记在他们的 Moola 应用程序中和将参赛表格邮寄至我们的服务中心或投入刘蝶广场的特备箱子内。除此之外，消费额最高和消费次数最多者也将有机会赢取吸引人的奖品，包括在今年每个季度的餐饮，资讯通讯科技，时装乃至旅游奖品直到钜奖总决赛。

配合 Moola 的推介，Moola Frenz 将可获享免费的 i-Milik 服务，非会员则得缴付每注册一种资讯通讯科技产品 RM10 的费用。Moola Frenz 可于为期六个月的促销期内在 i-Milik 之下无限制地注册资讯通讯科技产品，直到 2013 年三月底为止。i-Milik 是一项为了保护和预防公众人士买到和拥有失窃的资讯通讯科技产品而特别设计的预防犯罪系统。

该集团相信 Moola 将可催化马来西亚移动生活方式的改革，并可在投入运作的首三年分别达到 RM7百 20 万，RM 4 千 7 百 52 万和RM 1 亿 3 千 8 百 24 万的毛盈利内部指标。1 Utopia 最近在截至 2012 年 5 月 31 日的半年期取得RM 2 亿 6 千 5 百万的营业额和RM 23 万 4 千盈利。

该前称 Tejari Technologies Berhad的集团已改革和多元化至工程以外的两种业务；科技和创意。这项通过收购资讯通讯科技公司而实现的多元化行动使到 1 Utopia 在财务实力，稳定性和诚信革新能力方面更具竞争优势。这一点由该集团在最近几年扭转乾坤可见一斑，它分别在 2011 年和 2010 年取得RM1百 74 万 8 千和RM94 万 8 千的扣税后盈利，" Kenny 补充道。