Latest news with #Data
New Straits Times
3 days ago
- Business
- New Straits Times
Malaysia holds strong as regional data centre investment hotspot
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia remains an attractive destination for data centre-related investments in the region, despite geopolitical risks and rising demands on energy and infrastructure capacity. JLL Malaysia Director of Data Centre Transactions Kent Seet Tiong Hong said this puts the country in a favourable position compared to many of its global peers, which are facing similar pressures amid tightening regulations and rising costs. He noted that Malaysia remains a very suitable location for building data centres, supported by several factors. According to him, factors such as being free from natural disasters, having a sufficient supply, and having lower energy and water costs compared to other countries are key attractions for data centre development. Furthermore, he said, in terms of the political situation, Malaysia has a stable government, and government agencies are also actively promoting data centres. "Another advantage is our workforce. Our workforce is proficient in English compared to other countries," he said at the sidelines of the Bursa Malaysia–HLIB Stratum Focus Series, themed "Data Centre 2.0: The Ecosystem and What's Next for Malaysia?" held recently. In his presentation, Seet highlighted that Malaysia's data centre capacity is projected to expand significantly, growing more than threefold based on current projections. He said that as of the first quarter of 2025 (1Q25), the country has completed an estimated 522 megawatts (MW) of capacity, with 1,250 MW under construction and over 3,750 MW in the pipeline. He also pointed out that Malaysia's completed capacity of 522 MW places it ahead of key Southeast Asian peers such as Indonesia (270 MW) and Thailand (140 MW), although it remains behind Singapore, which has 1,000 MW. He noted that in Greater Kuala Lumpur, key data centre locations include Cyberjaya, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Petaling Jaya, Sungai Buloh and Puncak Alam. He said among them, Cyberjaya has the largest footprint, with 90 MW completed, 320 MW under construction, and 950 MW in the pipeline. However, Seet said land acquisition is beginning to slow down, largely due to the rising cost of land in prime locations. He added that constrained utilities and the lack of ready land in established data centre locations, driven by overwhelming demand, have led to the flow of data centre investments into new industrial areas such as Sungai Buloh, Puncak Alam, Kulai, Ulu Tiram and Iskandar Puteri. Commenting on the impact of the revised electricity tariff set to take effect from July 1, 2025, to Dec 31, 2027, Seet believes it will not dampen investment interest in data centres in the country. In fact, he said the adjustment could help curb speculative activity by ensuring that only serious and committed players remain in the market. However, he acknowledged that operational costs will rise, as electricity tariffs make up a significant portion of data centre expenses. "To what extent it will impact them (data centres), I think it is still manageable. "I believe it will not reduce investments coming into Malaysia. If anything, it will curb speculators, which is a positive development. "Hence, only quality players will continue to grow," he said.
Business Wire
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Druva Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Druva, a leading provider of data security, today announced it has been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. The rapid migration of critical business data and applications to the cloud has redefined the enterprise IT landscape. However, traditional data protection solutions, and even many cloud-based offerings, often fall short in delivering the agility, cyber resilience, and cost efficiency needed to navigate today's complex threat landscape. A truly cloud-native approach plays a critical role in addressing today's cyber threats and ensuring comprehensive cyber resilience. Druva pioneered a fully-managed SaaS approach to data protection and has matured its platform to help customers secure and recover data from cyber threats — and now delivers cyber resilience across 20+ global regions. The Druva Data Security Cloud delivers a cloud-native platform offering air-gapped and immutable protection across multi-cloud environments. This includes robust cross-cloud backup capabilities and proactive threat detection to identify potential ransomware, unauthorized access, and data anomalies. With DruAI, which includes Dru Investigate and Dru Assist, Druva further simplifies data protection to accelerate incident response activities. 'We founded Druva with a clear vision to make data protection more secure, simple, and inherently scalable for every business,' said Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. 'In our opinion, being recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reflects a meaningful shift in how organizations are approaching cyber resilience, and reinforces our belief that a cloud-native, fully-managed SaaS model is the most effective path to operationalizing AI and data security at scale. For us, this recognition speaks to our team's continued execution, the success of our platform, and the trust over 7,500 customers and hundreds of partners place in Druva to protect their business data.' Additional Resources: View a complimentary copy of the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms (available June 30) To learn how Druva's Data Security Cloud can secure and protect your data, please visit the platform page. Take a self-paced product tour to experience the power of Druva platform. Gartner Disclaimer Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, by Michael Hoeck, Jason Donham, Rene Rodriguez, Rizvan Hussain, Sankalp Rastogi, 24 June 2025. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Druva Druva is the leading provider of data security solutions, empowering customers to secure and recover their data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution offering air-gapped and immutable data protection across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. By centralizing data protection, Druva enhances traditional security measures and enables faster incident response, effective cyber remediation, and robust data governance. Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva safeguards business data in an increasingly interconnected world. Visit and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Northern Trust Adds Investment Data Science Clients in Hong Kong
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) announced today it has been selected by Hong Kong-based asset managers Clean Alpha Partners and Keyrock Capital Management Limited to deliver Investment Data Science solutions through its strategic partnership with Equity Data Science (EDS). Northern Trust's Investment Data Science (IDS) product suite has seen rapid growth, with its client base tripling in the last two years as institutional investors seek solutions to their data challenges. Share Founded in 2024, Clean Alpha Partners ('Clean Alpha') is a market neutral hedge fund designed to deliver high sharpe ratio returns from the global energy transition. Founded in 2018, Keyrock Capital Management Limited ('Keyrock') is a fundamental investment firm focused on Asia Pacific companies. Under the new mandates, Northern Trust will provide access to EDS' Research Management System (RMS), a workflow solution that integrates real-time quantitative and qualitative data to drive faster, more informed investment decisions through actionable insights. 'The complex, sophisticated strategies employed by hedge fund managers require a deep understanding of market dynamics, sentiment, and risk,' said Angelo Calvitto, Head of Asia Pacific, Northern Trust Asset Servicing. 'The EDS research management platform is designed to help investment teams more easily analyze the data that informs their decision-making. Our selection by Keyrock and Clean Alpha demonstrates Northern Trust's commitment to providing asset managers in APAC with solutions to their unique challenges.' 'At Keyrock, we recognized that our analysts generate a wealth of data, but we needed a way to track forecasts while integrating them within our research notes and theses,' said Jonathan Shih, Chief Investment Officer, Keyrock. 'We looked for a partner to help us fill this gap and chose Northern Trust and EDS. We can now bring our data together in a single platform that supports our internal processes and enhances the efficiency of our research management.' 'Data plays a critical part in our decision-making process, and we needed a solution that was flexible enough to support our bespoke methodology and help us more effectively manage our proprietary information,' said Matt Starick, Founder and CIO, Clean Alpha Partners. 'Northern Trust and EDS' solution provides a centralized platform to organize our data, creating greater efficiency in our investment decision-making.' Northern Trust's Investment Data Science (IDS) product suite has seen rapid growth, with its client base tripling in the last two years as institutional investors seek solutions to their data challenges. This business momentum is a testament to the unique set of solutions offered by Northern Trust and its strategic partners, allowing clients to optimize their investment process to deliver enhanced outcomes. Northern Trust has offices across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Melbourne, Pune, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. It has strong relationships with some of the region's largest asset managers, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, government agencies, and corporations. About Equity Data Science Equity Data Science (EDS) is an investment process management (IPM) solutions provider empowering leading hedge funds and asset managers with deeper insights, streamlined workflows, and enhanced productivity for superior decision-making. Trusted since 2012, EDS has combined proprietary and third-party data and research into a flexible, configurable platform tailored to each client's unique investment vision. The comprehensive platform supports the entire investment lifecycle, including idea generation, research management, portfolio construction and analytics, risk management, performance attribution, and ESG integration. For more information, visit About Keyrock Capital Management Limited Keyrock Capital Management Limited ("Keyrock") is based in Hong Kong but also has offices in Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh City. Accessing Asia's dynamism is challenging due to the region's complexity and rapid transformations. With on the ground resources, Keyrock can identify and invest with underappreciated companies in Asia Pacific. Portfolio companies are selected after careful investigation of the management team, business model, competition, and structural trends. Capital is allocated across the entire region towards the best risk/reward opportunities. The firm was founded in 2018 and is regulated by the Hong Kong SFC. About Clean Alpha Partners Clean Alpha Partners ('CαP') is an investment management firm with offices in Australia, Hong Kong and the USA. CαP's mission is to extract and compound public equity market alpha from the global energy transition. The strategy aims to maximise returns, minimise systematic risk, and deliver high Sharpe ratio performance in all market conditions. The strategy utilises strict equity market neutral portfolio construction. About Northern Trust Northern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking to corporations, institutions, affluent families and individuals. Founded in Chicago in 1889, Northern Trust has a global presence with offices in 24 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., and across 22 locations in Canada, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. As of March 31, 2025, Northern Trust had assets under custody/administration of US$16.9 trillion, and assets under management of US$1.6 trillion. For more than 135 years, Northern Trust has earned distinction as an industry leader for exceptional service, financial expertise, integrity and innovation. Visit us on Follow us on Instagram @northerntrustcompany or Northern Trust on LinkedIn. Northern Trust Corporation, Head Office: 50 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603 U.S.A., incorporated with limited liability in the U.S. Global legal and regulatory information can be found at
Newsweek
5 days ago
- Science
- Newsweek
Mysterious Space Signal Traced to Long-Dead NASA Satellite
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A brief but extremely powerful radio signal thought to have coming from deep space has now been traced to a dead NASA satellite in Earth orbit. Relay 2 was one of a pair of experimental communications satellites, the first launched in 1962 and the second in 1964. The signal from the decommissioned satellite was picked up in June last year—and it lasted less than 30 nanoseconds. Despite the fleeting nature of the burst, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. managed to trace it back to its origin. Radio signals from space are not an uncommon occurrence; in fact, telescopes pick up signals all the time coming from pulsars, black holes, massive galaxies, stars and various other cosmic phenomena. But far from being from a distant cosmic source, researchers determined that the fast radio burst (FRB) actually came from the 60's satellite in Earth orbit. Relay 2 satellite pictured by NASA. Relay 2 satellite pictured by NASA. NASA Relay 2 operated for just over a year and a half, at which point the only facility equipped to communicate with it—the Mojave Desert Ground Station—was retasked to a different satellite program. The transponders onboard Relay 2 stopped responding to radio signals in June 1967, after which point the satellite went silent—until last June. According to the researchers, Relay 2 did not miraculously come back online to send a signal to Earth. Instead, they believe that either an electrostatic discharge (ESD) or a plasma discharge following a micrometeoroid impact could have set off the burst. "Our observation opens new possibilities for the remote sensing of ESD, which poses a serious threat to spacecraft, and reveals a new source of false events for observations of astrophysical transients", the researchers say. With limited fuel capacity and subject to wear and tear caused by outer space, satellites don't last forever. But what happens to them after they stop working? The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, says that satellites orbiting closer to Earth are typically de‑orbited to burn up in Earth's atmosphere within 25 years, as per the "25‑year rule." However, this is only allowed when operators can show that the probability of injury or property damage is less than 1 in 10,000. When this is not the case, a controlled de-orbit directs the satellite into a remote ocean area, known as the "Spacecraft Cemetery". Satellites that lack sufficient fuel for re‑entry are sent into a graveyard orbit, where their instruments and subsystems are shut down, the remaining fuel is depleted and they are left to orbit indefinitely. Do you have a science story to share with Newsweek? Do you have a question about space? Let us know via science@ James, C. W., Deller, A. T., Dial, T., Glowacki, M., Tingay, S. J., Bannister, K. W., Bera, A., Bhat, N. D. R., Ekers, R. D., Gupta, V., Jaini, A., Morgan, J., Jahns-Schindler, J. N., Shannon, R. M., Sukhov, M., Tuthill, J., & Wang, Z. (2025). A nanosecond-duration radio pulse originating from the defunct Relay 2 satellite.
Time of India
17-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
CNLU prof ranked among world's top 10 legal scholars
Patna: Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) adjunct professor Nehaluddin Ahmad, who also serves as a senior professor at Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA) in Brunei, has secured a prestigious position in the 2025 edition of the AD Scientific Index. He has been ranked 10th globally in the field of law and legal studies. CNLU registrar S P Singh said Ahmad has also been ranked number one in all of Asia. In recognition of his outstanding academic contributions, he received the prestigious Teacher Excellence Award (Anugerah Guru Cemerlang) in 2024 from His Majesty the King of Brunei. Ahmad has authored over 300 research articles and more than two dozen books. His work on property law was cited in a 2016 ruling by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory in Canberra. On the global policy front, his article "Restrictions on Cryptography in India – A Case Study of Encryption and Privacy" was referenced in a European Commission study titled "New Challenges to Data Protection." His 2018 article "Bitcoin: Is it Really Legal? An Overview" (published in the Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 59-65) was cited by the European Parliament's Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (TAX3), underscoring his impact in the field of financial regulation and digital currency law. Ahmad's scholarly work has been cited by academics from some of the world's leading institutions, including the University of Oxford, Yale University, University of Cambridge, Cornell University, SOAS University of London, University of Massachusetts, New York University, and the National University of Singapore. His contributions have also been referenced by universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and India, said Singh.
