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| The three key messages for HPE at the CEC: a hybrid world, intelligent edge and services to support the whole. |
There are four zones at the CEC, including the customisable Gallery. The Gallery delivers a digital and interactive experience about the HPE strategy for enabling the digital transformation. Specific content in this area includes the HPE strategy, transformation solutions, industry presentations, customer testimonials, and a range of touch-enabled solution visualisations for customer and partner inspiration. These include visualisations for Voice of the Citizen, business intelligence for human information, cyber security monitoring and safe cities.
Immersion Zone 1 is an immersive digital experience that showcases a story that can be adapted for vertical market exploration. The area transports visitors into a realistic experience, and present the applicability of technology innovation in a way that is easy to understand. This area includes 'day-in-the-life' stories.
Examples include responding to a state of emergency (natural disaster), a personal hospital visit, checking into a hotel, and managing a bank account.
Immersion Zone 2 is about the physical world together with the future of life at the intelligent edge with podiums to feature hands-on solutions for the connected world.
The fourth CEC zone is the Cockpit, home to hybrid IT and software-defined infrastructure solutions. In an area featuring eight digital racks, this solutions showcase features the next generation in enterprise innovation. Features include server blades, unmounted servers, Moonshot cartridges, Edgeline boxes and HPE storage and networking solutions.
Exhibits on the media tour included:
The Cockpit features hybrid IT and software-defined solutions which deliver capabilities to accelerate business opportunities and efficiency with technology. Srikanth Seshadri, Chief Technologist – Hybrid IT, BEST, Asia Pacific and Japan, HPE, noted that traditional software is very different from cloud-native apps, putting businesses on the spot as they have to balance between the control needed for traditional software and the flexibility needed for cloud-native apps. A hybrid IT operating model can offer the right mix of "choice, flexibility and convenience", he said.
HPE aims to make hybrid infrastructure simple with solutions like the HPE Synergy, which supports both cloud and traditional apps. "You can run SQLServer and microservices on the same platform and satisfy requirements," Seshadri said.
With eight digital racks simulating a live data centre, the Cockpit is home to HPE’s latest compute, networking and storage innovation. Solutions include HPE's composable infrastructure offering – HPE Synergy, the hyperconverged offering from HPE's SimpliVity acquisition – HPE SimpliVity 380 with OmniStack, and the HPE Microsoft Azure Stack.
The Intelligent Edge showcase aims to bring together the physical world and the Internet of Things (IoT) at the edge, and will bring to life the possibilities of the connected world we live in today.
The four-pod showcase offers real-world examples of HPE’s work on the Intelligent Edge in industrial, enterprise and consumer IoT, powered by the HPE Edgeline servers on display. Demonstrations include HPE's work with NVIDIA and Singapore startup XJERA LABS to deliver accelerated video analytics at the edge for future cities, and a demonstration of pump cavitation monitoring through intelligent sensors that offer analytics capabilities.
Mobility solutions from Aruba including Meridian, ClearPass and WayFinding will also be featured in the demonstration area. Powered by Aruba, demos include a personalised smart hotel guest experience, and an intelligent mall, where shoppers can get a digital concierge on their mobile devices to find what they need more efficiently, and be made aware of promotions in the mall.
Exhibits on the media tour included:
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| Hybrid IT Cockpit Presenter Srikanth Seshadri, Chief Technologist – Hybrid IT, BEST, Asia Pacific and Japan, HPE, explains how hybrid IT can satisfy the conflicting requirements of cloud-native and traditional applications at the same time.. |
The Cockpit features hybrid IT and software-defined solutions which deliver capabilities to accelerate business opportunities and efficiency with technology. Srikanth Seshadri, Chief Technologist – Hybrid IT, BEST, Asia Pacific and Japan, HPE, noted that traditional software is very different from cloud-native apps, putting businesses on the spot as they have to balance between the control needed for traditional software and the flexibility needed for cloud-native apps. A hybrid IT operating model can offer the right mix of "choice, flexibility and convenience", he said.
HPE aims to make hybrid infrastructure simple with solutions like the HPE Synergy, which supports both cloud and traditional apps. "You can run SQLServer and microservices on the same platform and satisfy requirements," Seshadri said.
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| The HPE Synergy is the first and only composable platform and HPE's answer to hybrid IT as it can support both traditional and cloud applications simultaneously. |
With eight digital racks simulating a live data centre, the Cockpit is home to HPE’s latest compute, networking and storage innovation. Solutions include HPE's composable infrastructure offering – HPE Synergy, the hyperconverged offering from HPE's SimpliVity acquisition – HPE SimpliVity 380 with OmniStack, and the HPE Microsoft Azure Stack.
The Intelligent Edge showcase aims to bring together the physical world and the Internet of Things (IoT) at the edge, and will bring to life the possibilities of the connected world we live in today.
The four-pod showcase offers real-world examples of HPE’s work on the Intelligent Edge in industrial, enterprise and consumer IoT, powered by the HPE Edgeline servers on display. Demonstrations include HPE's work with NVIDIA and Singapore startup XJERA LABS to deliver accelerated video analytics at the edge for future cities, and a demonstration of pump cavitation monitoring through intelligent sensors that offer analytics capabilities.
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| XJERA LABS' video analytics solution, powered by NVIDIA GPUs, is able to detect people and objects in real-time. In this demonstration by Simranjit, Chief Technologist, Intelligent Edge, Asia Pacific and Japan, HPE, a deliberately abandoned backpack is immediately flagged as abandoned and a danger to the environment. |
Mobility solutions from Aruba including Meridian, ClearPass and WayFinding will also be featured in the demonstration area. Powered by Aruba, demos include a personalised smart hotel guest experience, and an intelligent mall, where shoppers can get a digital concierge on their mobile devices to find what they need more efficiently, and be made aware of promotions in the mall.
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TC Lee, Regional Presales, Mobility Consulting Systems Engineer, Aruba, talks about how navigation can now be brought indoors.
Aruba technology can track all wireless devices within a space to understand how that space is being used. Businesses can determine how many people have passed through an area, and how long they stayed, for example. Indoor wayfinding is deployed at the National Gallery Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, and at airports. "You can understand shppper traffic, understand space optimisation," Lee said.
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| Lee demonstrates how a visit to a hotel can be personalised. |
Take a glimpse into how technology enables a future city in the Future Cities Immersion Zone. HPE takes visitors through a a typical day to demonstrate how “smart” technology encourages a more connected, more efficient, more sustainable way of life for government entities and citizens. Visitor into a typical, realistic scenario while highlighting the applicability of technology innovation. Visitors are transported to relatable situations at home, at the office and in a range of industries including from healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and retail.
Voice of the Citizen is an interactive platform that can help organisations better understand top citizen concerns with social media analytics. The platform can be customised based on areas of interest or concern, including healthcare, education and city safety.
The demonstration shows the value of social media analytics of tourism drivers in Thailand. The platform aggregates English and Thai Twitter data from July – September 2016, covering publicly-available content. Through the identification of key tourist attractions, social conversations about the country, and tone of the discussions, the demo shows how key stakeholders in Thailand can identify key trends to attract more visitors to Phuket, an island holiday destination in the country.
To date, Voice of the Citizen has been tested by a range of public sector, healthcare and national infrastructure organisations across a number of geographies, including Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Dubai in the UAE.
The HPE Innovation Centre is focused on providing expertise, consultancy and innovation in the form of customised industry vertical solutions to APJ customers and partners, engaging them from ideation to development and commercialisation of innovative solutions. The ultimate goal is to drive global market adoption for the solutions created in Singapore.
The key charter for the centre includes startup acceleration, the creation of vertical industry solutions, and the building of future city global centres of excellence. The HPE Innovation Centre had been involved in multiple customer engagements in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and the US. Customer successes include work with the Singapore Government Cloud – the first extensive private cloud for all government agencies in Singapore, and the customer insights dashboard, an interactive platform that can help governments better understand top citizen concerns with social media analytics.
HPE has also partnered with major telecommunications providers in Hong Kong and Australia, as well as a major bank in India. In Hong Kong, HPE jointly developed a platform with ASTRI targeted at breaking down data silos to give enterprises a holistic view of all data, enabling informed business decisions.
Exhibits on the media tour included:
A leading Hong Kong utilities company manages its physical assets and human resource deployment more effectively through a customised industrial IoT solution from HPE. The system aids the customer’s predictive maintenance efforts with both historic and realtime data.
HPE worked with the customer to analyse five years of historic data - a dataset of 15GB - to pre-emptively identify atrisk facilities for scheduled maintenance services. Laid out in an interactive analytics dashboard, the utilities company had a view of all their assets with associated health scores, could predict anticipated maintenance, and better deploy their engineers to sites that required critical attention.
In addition, the dashboard uses deep learning software to integrate real-time data from 24-hour monitoring of vibrations in physical assets to identify load imbalances that could lead to mechanical failures. Dr He Fang, Lead Data Scientist, HPE Innovation Centre, Asia Pacific and Japan, said that HPE can now make predictions 4 hours ahead of a problem occurring, with 89% accuracy. The accuracy rate enables the customer to quickly identify false positives, and better deploy its engineers on the ground to sites that required attention.
As part of the Singapore Innovation Program, HPE is working with gridComm, a Singapore-based startup, to create a smart lighting solution through real-time data collected through IoT and edge devices. With technology, consultancy and expertise from HPE, gridComm’s smart lighting system provides responsive lighting controls – such as strengthening the intensity of the light when sensors detect foot traffic, so pedestrians can see ahead of them, and then dimming the lighting when the area is deserted to conserve energy.
The solution can help improve public safety and decrease total cost of operations through deep learning assisted programmable controls, for example through determining when and why street lights fail, and adjusting energy usage. To date, the solution has been tested by public sector enterprises in both Singapore and Indonesia.
Interested?
Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts about HPE's new APJ HQ in Singapore and the HPE APJ strategy
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| HPE sees many benefits for those living in smart cities, including sustainability, agility, inclusion, scalability and infrastructure resilience. |
Voice of the Citizen is an interactive platform that can help organisations better understand top citizen concerns with social media analytics. The platform can be customised based on areas of interest or concern, including healthcare, education and city safety.
The demonstration shows the value of social media analytics of tourism drivers in Thailand. The platform aggregates English and Thai Twitter data from July – September 2016, covering publicly-available content. Through the identification of key tourist attractions, social conversations about the country, and tone of the discussions, the demo shows how key stakeholders in Thailand can identify key trends to attract more visitors to Phuket, an island holiday destination in the country.
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| Voice of the Citizen, presented by Naveen Kumar, Software Engineer, HPE Innovation Center, Asia Pacific and Japa, shows how sentiment analysis about Phuket is mostly about Patong Beach with Phi Phi coming in a distant second. The at-a-glance visualisation also shows that Patong was largely viewed negatively as marked in orange, while Phi Phi generally received good reviews. Kumar explained that the analysis had been carried out in August 2016, at a time when a bomb had gone off on Patong Beach. |
To date, Voice of the Citizen has been tested by a range of public sector, healthcare and national infrastructure organisations across a number of geographies, including Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Dubai in the UAE.
The HPE Innovation Centre is focused on providing expertise, consultancy and innovation in the form of customised industry vertical solutions to APJ customers and partners, engaging them from ideation to development and commercialisation of innovative solutions. The ultimate goal is to drive global market adoption for the solutions created in Singapore.
The key charter for the centre includes startup acceleration, the creation of vertical industry solutions, and the building of future city global centres of excellence. The HPE Innovation Centre had been involved in multiple customer engagements in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and the US. Customer successes include work with the Singapore Government Cloud – the first extensive private cloud for all government agencies in Singapore, and the customer insights dashboard, an interactive platform that can help governments better understand top citizen concerns with social media analytics.
HPE has also partnered with major telecommunications providers in Hong Kong and Australia, as well as a major bank in India. In Hong Kong, HPE jointly developed a platform with ASTRI targeted at breaking down data silos to give enterprises a holistic view of all data, enabling informed business decisions.
Exhibits on the media tour included:
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| Dr He Fang (Michi), Lead Data Scientist, HPE Innovation Centre, Asia Pacific and Japan, introduces how HPE has helped a Hong Kong utilities company with predictive maintenance. |
A leading Hong Kong utilities company manages its physical assets and human resource deployment more effectively through a customised industrial IoT solution from HPE. The system aids the customer’s predictive maintenance efforts with both historic and realtime data.
HPE worked with the customer to analyse five years of historic data - a dataset of 15GB - to pre-emptively identify atrisk facilities for scheduled maintenance services. Laid out in an interactive analytics dashboard, the utilities company had a view of all their assets with associated health scores, could predict anticipated maintenance, and better deploy their engineers to sites that required critical attention.
In addition, the dashboard uses deep learning software to integrate real-time data from 24-hour monitoring of vibrations in physical assets to identify load imbalances that could lead to mechanical failures. Dr He Fang, Lead Data Scientist, HPE Innovation Centre, Asia Pacific and Japan, said that HPE can now make predictions 4 hours ahead of a problem occurring, with 89% accuracy. The accuracy rate enables the customer to quickly identify false positives, and better deploy its engineers on the ground to sites that required attention.
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| Mike Holt, CEO, gridComm, introduces his company, which offers smart lighting solutions. |
As part of the Singapore Innovation Program, HPE is working with gridComm, a Singapore-based startup, to create a smart lighting solution through real-time data collected through IoT and edge devices. With technology, consultancy and expertise from HPE, gridComm’s smart lighting system provides responsive lighting controls – such as strengthening the intensity of the light when sensors detect foot traffic, so pedestrians can see ahead of them, and then dimming the lighting when the area is deserted to conserve energy.
The solution can help improve public safety and decrease total cost of operations through deep learning assisted programmable controls, for example through determining when and why street lights fail, and adjusting energy usage. To date, the solution has been tested by public sector enterprises in both Singapore and Indonesia.
Interested?
Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts about HPE's new APJ HQ in Singapore and the HPE APJ strategy
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