The two technologies are being touted as the way forward as the industry seeks out more energy-efficient data centre designs and better ways to manage energy consumption.
With a hot and humid climate year round and customers not willing to take a chance with higher operating temperatures, energy efficiency continues to be a challenge.
Dr Low Lee Yong of MHC Asia Group covers hair lice, hypertension and healthcare-related fraud in a talk about how analytics can help re-establish trust in the sector.
“It is important to identify what is sensitive, what it is that organisations need to protect, and not spend money trying to protect everything,” says Ryan Koh of Protiviti.
The industry is looking towards a level of automation and control that will enable the data centre to operate unmanned, says Emerson in its Data Centre 2025 report.
“If we can’t decide what to do because everything is still evolving, then we miss out on a lot of opportunities,” says Keith Chan of Philippines Business Bank.
Behavioural profiling will be a major objective in 2015, but organisations will have to figure out how to do it transparently and still keep their customers’ trust, says IDC.