As the nation’s main organisation responsible for forecasting weather changes and natural disasters, TMD is constantly looking to improve the technology supporting its prediction modelling.

The department needed a technology boost using high performance computing to fine-tune the accuracy with which it delivered weather predictions in the present, short and long term. It sought to improve efficiency, portability, maintenance, scalability and productivity in the department’s Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model, which supports atmospheric research and operational weather prediction

TMD selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Apollo 2000 servers, featuring the unique capability to store data using HPE 3PAR, a world-class storage array designed to

work seamlessly with HPE Apollo.

Boonlert Archevarahuprok, senior meteorologist, Thailand Meteorological Department said that the HPC-supported WRF system is expected to help TMD forecast rainfall within a four-square-kilometre spatial resolution and forecast weather more than seven days in advance, by month or by season.

The high-performance

computing system would also help deliver intelligence that will help TMD support the development of government policies in areas such as sustainable water management and improve overall protection against natural disasters.

“HPE stood out with an innovative hybrid IT solution that met our needs and delivered a solution that helped us support our mission-critical business functions and deliver on the needs of the country,” said Boonlert.

Palasilp Vichivanives, managing director, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Thailand, said the TMD was looking for a solution to manage unpredictable mixed workloads to enable accurate weather forecasting.

The company’s customised solution delivers a flexible, scalable and cost-effective configuration for the TMD to accelerate performance of their mission-critical applications and improve forecasting, he said.

As we have already seen, some so-called “secure” jobs have recently been replaced. For instance, bank tellers are largely replaced by ATM and online banking; online customer service personnel are replaced by chatbot.

A number of the world’s most influential people believe that in the foreseeable future all jobs will be lost to machines and all human beings will be living on basic welfare.

However, I’m a strong believer that there will still be some jobs where a robot will never be able to beat people, especially those requiring compassion and a human touch such as psychologists and caretakers. Moreover, as humans and machines have different strengths, even though a machine can beat a human one-on-one in Go and in online games, several studies have proved that complicated tasks are best handled by a team that has both machines and people working together.

Nonetheless, it’s inevitable that substantial numbers of jobs will be lost. There will be huge unemployment in the coming five years. So, how can we prepare ourselves not to be one of those left unemployed?

First, we must perform exceptionally well at whatever we do.

Even in a repetitive job that machine a might have done better, such as cleaning a toilet, an exceptional cleaner like those employed at Japanese airports who consider themselves serving customers with an exceptional level of service, won’t be replaced by a robot.

And to do that, you need to be passionate about your job.

Second, we need to never stop learning, acquiring new skills, and to keep challenging ourselves and pushing our boundaries. Those with continuous self-improvement will definitely be less likely to be replaced.

Even if unfortunate things happen, you will already be comfortable in being uncomfortable and ready to learn new things to perform well in your next job.

Third, we need to possess a growth mindset and always take feedback and suggestions as gifts. No matter where they come from, bosses, mentors, parents or even subordinates, we should listen to them and use them to make us a better person. If you can make potential employers want to hang out with you, your chances of landing a job will skyrocket. Fourth, we need to keep ourselves up to date, especially about new careers. It will help you prepare for your next move before it’s too late.

Above all, know what you want in life and which types of careers can serve your goals and personal core values. Because when you are working in a career that can serve your personal core values, you will be fulfilled and more likely to be passionate about the job and perform exceptionally well.

In order to know this, you might use the Career Design Framework developed by CareerVisa to analyse yourself and careers in five shades: skills and interests, personality and people you want to be surrounded with, working conditions, lifestyle and personal core values.

To analyse your target careers, you need accurate information and insights from professionals with real work experience in the field. If you don’t know where to start, visit the CareerVisa Thailand Facebook fanpage. https://web.facebook.com/careervisathailand/

Thiraya Thiranakanat is co-founder and chief executive officer, CareerVisa Digital, a start-up in dtac Accelerate batch 6.

The new Managed Private Cloud solution offers new consumption options for more flexible access to powerful IT infrastructure and applications as customers modernize their data center for hybrid cloud, Cisco said in a press statement.

FlexPod Datacenter for Epic EHR, a key healthcare application, is the first in a series of new pre-tested vertical solutions, with support for more healthcare applications, coming soon. FlexPod continues to be a platform for innovation and investment protection, introducing new validated solutions for the latest virtualization software, enterprise applications, and databases incorporating the latest technologies from Cisco and NetApp, the statement added.

According to IDC, Cisco and NetApp have recorded market-leading growth with FlexPod, showing double-digit, year over year growth for five successive quarters.

Managed Private Cloud

The new Managed Private Cloud solution built on FlexPod enables customers to realize a cloud-like, As-a-Service model for their on-premises IT. The FlexPod infrastructure would be located on-premises but managed remotely, securing critical customer data and advancing cloud-capabilities for both partners and their customers. This solution will be delivered by channel partners. Initial delivery partners include Dimension Data,  ePlus, Microland, and ProAct and as the program evolves it would expand to a larger set of partners.

FlexPod Industry Solutions

New FlexPod industry solutions provide a proven platform to quickly deploy key applications across industries that are challenged by the increasingly diverse, dynamic and distributed nature of data.Launching today, FlexPod Datacenter for Epic EHR simplifies IT infrastructure for healthcare customers, helping them move faster and unleash new insights for improved patient care. Together, NetApp and Cisco are providing customers with a secure, reliable, and highly available platform for their most business-critical applications by providing best practices and sizing guidance to reduce risk and accelerate deployments. Additional solutions will extend support to other applications and industries later in the calendar year.

Platform for innovation

FlexPod continues to be a platform for innovation and investment protection with the release of newvalidated designs that address customers’ most pressing business needs. In addition to the new healthcare and managed private cloud solutions, new designs have been released across the FlexPod Datacenter portfolio. This proven FlexPod platform for IT modernization has been refreshed for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments incorporating the latest technologies from Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI and NetApp All Flash FAS storage. The SAP and SAP HANA solution, foundational for several successful enterprise customers and service providers offering Hana-as-a-Service, was refreshed in May 2018. New solutions have also been released for desktop virtualization (Citrix XenDesktop/XenAppand VMware Horizon View) and Microsoft SQL 2016. Additionally, the new NetApp IP based MetroCluster can be combined with Cisco ACI to form a single fabric spanning active-active datacenters for a robust Business Continuity solution. Learn more about FlexPod validated designs and their multitude of benefitshere, the statement added.

“We wanted to use technology to reinforce our commitment to innovation in patient care,” said Austin Park, Epic Infrastructure Team Leader at LCMC Health. “We’ve exceeded all expectations of the best possible patient care scenarios by running Epic EMR on our FlexPod with AFF infrastructure. With rapid, secure access to patient data, our caregivers can respond to patients’ needs quickly, armed with the right information.”

“It’s no surprise that FlexPod continues to lead the market as the fastest growing converged infrastructure solution,” said Ranjeet Sudan, vice president of Converged Infrastructure at NetApp. “Our long-running relationship with Cisco has combined best-in-class technology and expertise to create one of the strongest and most successful partnerships in the industry. Together, we are enabling organizations to truly access the full value of their data despite the rising complexity of applications and workloads.”

“We are proud of our continued innovation with NetApp as we further expand FlexPod’s powerful capabilities with support for industry-specific applications and new consumption models,” said Siva Sivakumar, senior director, Data Center Solutions, ‎Cisco Systems. “With these new offerings we are helping organizations accelerate deployment of their business-critical applications and providing a secure, robust, and flexible private cloud infrastructure that has the speed and simplicity of public cloud.”

“As a global leader in both systems integration and managed services for hybrid IT, Dimension Data is excited to add the new FlexPod Managed Private Cloud service to our portfolio of hybrid services,” saidRob Lopez, group executive, Digital Infrastructure for Dimension Data. “Our enterprise clients across 47 countries demand on-premises cloud solutions that improve business agility, simplify business processes and reduce time-to-market, as well as offer assured confidence from partnering with leading technology providers, such as Cisco and NetApp. Ensuring we deliver an exceptional end-to-end Managed Private Cloud solution to our clients, along with our market-leading security and networking services, enables us to help accelerate their digital transformation journeys.”

“With operations in the U.S., U.K., and India, we provide advanced technology solutions optimized by professional and managed services to drive meaningful business outcomes for our multinational and commercial customers. We are proud to build upon our long-standing partnership with NetApp, including status as NetApp’s FlexPod Partner of the Year, and expand our portfolio to include Managed Private Cloud. We look forward to continuing to support customers throughout their cloud journey, helping improve business agility and enable technology innovation with an intuitive solution to provide self-service consumption, increase flexibility, reduce complexity, and also provide support to the entire solution of on-premises private clouds as they modernize their IT infrastructure,” said Sudheesh Subhashithan, Vice President Cloud Services at ePlus.

“The new Managed Private Cloud solution enhanced and configured with Microland’s managed services enables us to further accelerate digital transformation, drive profitability, improve efficiency and advance process and system effectiveness for customers across Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East and North America,” said Pradeep Kar, CEO of Microland.

“As one of the first and largest FlexPod Premium Partners in Europe, we have used Cisco and NetApp technology for many years in our enterprise class managed services. We are therefore thrilled to add the new Managed Private Cloud solution to our portfolio, giving us even stronger capabilities to efficiently and effectively manage on-premises private clouds for our customers across Europe,” said Paul Bates, vice president for Managed Services at Proact IT Group.

Adding a way to check that a real person is behind new accounts was described by Twitter as being among measures to fight abuse, trolls, and hateful content.

“This is an important change to defend against people who try to take advantage of our openness,” Twitter executives Del Harvey and Yoel Roth said in a blog post.

The requirement will be rolled out later this year, and Twitter promised to make sure the change does not harm aspiring users in “high-risk” places.

Twitter recently began taking more steps to clean up spam and automated activity, and “close the loopholes they’d exploited,” according to Harvey and Roth.

“We’re also now automating some processes where we see suspicious account activity, like exceptionally high-volume tweeting with the same hashtag, or using the same @handle without a reply from the account you’re mentioning,” they said.

Twitter systems identified and challenged more than 9.9 million “potentially spammy or automated accounts” weekly in May, according to Harvey and Roth.

Twitter last month said that it was stepping up its long-running battle against online trolls, trying to find offenders by looking at “behavioral signals.”

The new approach looks at behavioral patterns of users in addition to the content of the tweets, allowing Twitter to find and mute online bullies and trolls.

Even if the offending tweets are not a violation of Twitter policy, they may be hidden from users if they are deemed to “distort” a conversation, Twitter said.

Twitter already uses artificial intelligence and machine learning in this effort but the latest initiative aims to do more by focusing on the actions of certain users in addition to the content.

Twitter is among online platforms under pressure to do more to safeguard against being used to spread misinformation or promote division, as proved the case during the US presidential election in 2016, in which US intelligence says Russia meddled to help Donald Trump win.

The endtoend system will make Thailand one of the few nations able to fully exploit geoinformation for societal benefits. Fully in line with Thailand’s 4.0 policy, the THEOS2 programme will constitute a major milestone in the development of Space in the Eastern Economic Corridor and its Digital Park.

As part of the contract, a comprehensive capacity building programme will involve Thai engineers in the development of an integrated geo information system, ground segment and two Earth observation satellites: a very highresolution and a small satellite system. The small satellite system from Airbus’ subsidiary SSTL will be assembled and tested incountry by Thai engineers to deliver technology transfer and involve local suppliers. This will be complemented by an extensive training scheme capitalizing on Airbus’ comprehensive geointelligence expertise, and will further develop Thailand’s geospatial industry, said Dr. Anond Snidvongs, Executive Director of GISTDA.

Industrial enterprises are the largest contributor to Thailand’s economy, while industrial IoT products and services are more mature, featuring several solution providers in this space with extensive experience in implementing IoT solutions for industrial companies.

The manufacturing segment is the single largest contributor to Thailand’s economy when compared to its contribution to other Asean economies.

Irza Suprapto, CEO of solution provider Asia IoT Business Platform, said Thailand should first and foremost focus on IoT solutions for the largest economies – which in Thailand is the manufacturing sector. The government has identified that potential and is making both hard and soft investments to ramp up companies along the technological curve.

The Thailand 4.0 policy has highlighted opportunities and investment trends in 10 targeted industries, divided into two broad categories. They include the first five S-Curve industries (general automotive, intelligent electronics, advanced agriculture and biotechnology, food processing, and tourism) where the country’s competitiveness can be enhanced through building on its current strengths through technological innovation. Also targeted are the five new S-Curve industries (digital, robotics and automation, aviation and logistics, biofuels and biochemicals, and medical hubs) where the aim is to develop those industries to accelerate the new industrial growth base.

“The enterprises under the industrial verticals are most advanced in exploring and/or implementing IoT solutions,” says Suprapto.

With these investments and developments, the IoT industry in Thailand is expected to be worth US$1 billion by 2020.

The most obvious potential for Thai enterprises implementing IoT solutions is through productivity gains. Thailand has lagged behind its Asean peers in improving productivity and proper adoption of IoT solutions should help enterprises bridge this gap. Increased productivity would also make Thailand a more attractive location for foreign investments.

“This is the fourth consecutive year hosting the Asia IoT Business Platform event in Bangkok and we have seen a reduction in the inertia exhibited by enterprises in implementing IoT and digitisation projects,” says Suprapto.

His company’s annual survey of Asean enterprises discovered that cost is less a concern here compared to in other Asean nations, while security issues rank as the largest obstacle to higher adoption rates of IoT solutions among Thai enterprises.

Establishing the right ecosystem is key to IoT implementation taking off in any Asean country, Suprapto said. The four key stakeholders within an ecosystem are governments, telecommunications companies, solution providers and local enterprises.

Governments can contribute to creating the right ecosystem through crafting policies that increase the solution options available to enterprises and by promoting their adoption by providing both financial and non-financial supports. For example, Singapore has spent a lot of resources to promote its Smart Nation Programme globally to attract international companies to get involved in local projects.

Thailand has formed the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society to track how digital transformation projects affect the growth of both the economy (businesses) and society (people). In Thailand, the ministry has set the target for the digital sector to contribute 25 per cent of the country’s GDP.

Telecommunication companies play a key role through ensuring strong connectivity, be it Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) or traditional bandwidth. The extent of their IoT strategy has differed vastly between telecommunication companies in Asean.

Thailand’s telecoms launched their NB-IOT networks earlier this year and Suprapto said it will be interesting to see what types of solutions will use this standard going forward.

Large solution providers target each Asean country differently, and the breadth and depth of the solutions they are able to provide within each country also differs. Asean economies continue to outpace global growth rates and the larger technology vendors have started to commit additional resources to increase their product and service offerings in the region.

Local enterprises need an ecosystem that encourages them to make investments in IoT and the three stakeholders singled out above will play key roles in providing the impetus for Asean enterprises to adopt IoT solutions.

“IoT implementation isn’t the same as a traditional enterprise IT product purchase decision,” said Suprapto, “and enterprises need to invest a fair bit of resources to adopt IoT successfully.

“Having supportive policies, strong connectivity infrastructure and leading-edge technology minimises the risks business leaders [are exposed to] in adopting IoT projects.”

He added that the role of his company’s Asia IoT Business Platform is to help encourage IoT adoption in Asian countries. The programmes in Asean over the past five years have evolved in line with the nature of the IoT industry.

“Southeast Asia cannot be ignored, as overall economic growth is expected to remain strong over the next few years,” said Suprapto. “You can also see that with the [increasing] number of vendors interested in providing IoT solutions to Asean markets, the growth in business opportunities is really quite impressive. The marginal cost of IoT solutions to enterprises declines as the number of technology vendors increases.”

The local Asean markets are mature enough to identify challenges unique to this part of the world. IoT adoption can be a key competitive advantage for firms wanting to stay ahead of the curve.

“IoT is not a problem which can be solved with a one-size-fits-all solution. Business models will have to adapt. This starts with having in-depth, honest discussions among stakeholders. And that is what we aim to provide,” said Suprapto.

Plans are being made to roll out 5G in Thailand between 2020 and 2022 and offering significant business potential for operators, said Nadine Allen, president and country manager of Ericsson Thailand.

“Specifically for Thailand, we forecast that operators can add service revenues of up to US$2.6 billion [Bt85 billion] or a 22 per cent increase in incremental revenues above forecast revenues by 2026. The largest opportunity for operator-addressable 5G-related revenues will be in sectors like manufacturing, energy and utilities, and public safety,” said Allen.

The Swedish multinational telecom company Ericsson is one of the leaders in pushing for adoption of 5G standards around the world.

Analysis of the available data indicates a general and long-term pattern of larger data plans attracting an increasing proportion of the customer base.

Ericsson’s analysis of data from App Annie indicates that in the period from April 2017 to April 2018, the proportion of subscribers with data usage above 5 gigabytes per month has grown from 46 per cent to over 58 per cent. Driving this shift is the growing data consumption by consumers, growing smartphone penetration and attractive data packages being offered by operators.

Meanwhile, mobile data usage continues to increase in Thailand with video and social media use largely driving this growth. Ericsson’s analysis of data from App Annie indicates that in the 12 months from April 2017 to April 2018, Thai users increased their mobile use of Facebook by 58 per cent while almost doubling their usage of Instagram.

Globally, major 5G deployments are expected from 2020. Ericsson forecasts over 1 billion 5G subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by the end of 2023, accounting for around 12 per cent of all mobile subscriptions.

Mobile data traffic is estimated to surge by eight times during the forecast period to reach close to 107 exabytes (EB) per month – a figure that is equal to every mobile subscriber worldwide streaming full HD video for 10 hours.

By 2023, more than 20 per cent of mobile data traffic worldwide is expected to be carried by 5G networks. This is 1.5 times more than the total 4G/3G/2G traffic today.

Following diffusion patterns of previous mobile access technologies, 5G is expected to be deployed first in dense urban areas with enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access as the first commercial use cases. Other use cases will come from industries such as automotive, manufacturing, utilities and healthcare.

Fredrik Jejdling, Ericsson’s executive vice president and head of business area network, said that 2018 is the year 5G networks go commercial as well as for large-scale deployments of cellular Internet of Things (IoT). First-generation 5G data-only devices are expected from the second half of 2018.

The first commercial smartphones supporting 5G in the mid-band range are expected early next year, while support for very high spectrum bands is expected in early to mid-2019.

However, the forecast for cellular IoT connections has nearly doubled since November 2017. It is now expected to reach an estimated 3.5 billion in 2023, driven by ongoing large-scale deployments in China. New massive IoT cellular technologies such as NB-IoT and Cat-M1 are fuelling this growth, giving service providers opportunities to improve efficiencies and enhance customer value.

Mobile operators have launched more than 60 cellular IoT networks worldwide using these technologies over the same underlying LTE network to support a diverse range of use cases.

In North America, these cases are centred on logistics and fleet management while in China the focus is on smart cities and smart agriculture.

The first commercial launches of 5G will be this year. North America is expected to lead the 5G uptake, with all major US operators planning to roll out 5G between late 2018 and mid-2019.

By the end of 2023, close to 50 per cent of all mobile subscriptions in North America are forecast to be for 5G, followed by Northeast Asia at 34 per cent, and Western Europe at 21 per cent.

Located in the Ebina Center, this facility, dubbed Future Edge, will also devote to demonstrate enhancing productivity of print operations and the fruits of work-style reforms. Future Edge will serve as the hub in cooperating with other Fuji Xerox facilities inside and outside Japan as in the hub-and-spoke structure.

Upholding its new value proposition strategySmart Work Innovation, Fuji Xerox provides three values: Liberate from Restraints, Open Professional Expertise, and Transform to Creative Work-style. Future Edge is a place that embodies these values in the field of print communication, instead of being just a showroom displaying devices and related software.

With advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence(AI), and robotic process automation (RPA), Future Edge will also aim to demonstrate how these technologies can contribute to enhancing the productivity of print operations and reforming workstyles by enabling people to grasp the state of print jobs remotely and automating workflows that have so far required human labor.

With approximately 7,000 square meters of space, this facility has the entire lineup of Fuji Xerox production printers, related software /services, as well as FUJIFILM Corporation’s inkjet digital press Jet Press 720S and print workflow system FUJIFILM WORKFLOW XMF under one roof, to maximize the business synergy of the Fujifilm Group. The facility will also further accelerate collaboration with partners and innovators both in Japan and abroad, to continue introducing cutting-edge systems and expertise. By locating inside the Ebina Center, a base for Fuji Xerox’s technology development, the facility allows not only sales personnel and systems engineers, but also development engineers, manufacturing personnel and Fuji Xerox’s partners to work directly with customers to address challenges and verifications.

To create more added value upon the print value chain, Fuji Xerox believes that under the concept of Smile Curve (illustrated on the right), it is important to connect all processes seamlessly, from upstream creative and printing processes to downstream tail-end and delivery processes.

Main components of Future Edge

Future Edge comprises the Smile Garden—a place to offer experience with, and verify, communication-related ideas and systems—, and the Smart Factory—a place to clarify various needs for digital printing deriving from such ideas and systems and demonstrate seamless processing and delivery.

[Smile Garden]

The Smile Garden is a place to consider ways of communication in a community of diverse people and explore desirable business models together with customers.With constantly upgraded systems useful for establishing better communications based on a wide variety of applications and cloud services, this section aims to develop hypotheses about new business models together with customers by holding workshops featuring hands-on experiences. In addition, open innovation events will be held here to find business seeds leading to technological innovations by recruiting participants from the outside to brainstorm ideas.

[Smart Factory]

The Smart Factory offers experience with, and demonstrates, productivity reforms in a future printing factory. Productivity can be enhanced by visualizing the entire print workflow with the latest technologies, utilizing various digital presses and post-print processing systems installed here.Digital contents created at the Smile Garden are sent to the Smart Factory—which represents the production process on the Smile Curve—to produce and process printed matters per various uses.The Smart Factory aims to build a system for delivering completed products to people who need them on time to the right place in the right form. To that end, Fuji Xerox and Fujifilm collaborate to provide an integrated printing workflow consisting of digital and offset printing for seamless workflow straight from upstream to downstream processes.

The increasingly diversifying preferences and values of people due to changes in the social environment and globalization require more diverse communication means. To make agile and flexible digital printing prove its usefulness in a more definitive manner, it is necessary to create a system that reflects the diversity of values by adapting to advanced multi-item, small-lot production. Future Edge will engage in communication business transformation in the entire print value chain, from upstream processes in which communication contents are produced via production processes, to downstream processes in which contents are delivered on time to the right place in the right form.

As a pioneer in the field of graphic communications^Note, Fuji Xerox together with Fujifilm, customers and partners will endeavor to open up the future of multifaceted communication, and will contribute to the promotion of better mutual understanding in a digital society and the enhancement of customers’ business competitiveness.

Organised by Hubba Co Ltd, a startup facilitator, the 10,000-delegate event is being held at the Centara Grand at CentralWorld until tomorrow (Saturday).

Held in Bangkok for the third year, attendance has almost doubled from last year’s 5,500 delegates with more than 10,300 tickets sold this year.

Amarit Charoenphan, CEO of Hubba, said: “More than 300 startups are being showcased and some 300 international speakers are attending, including the founder of [cryptocurrency] Ethereum, Joseph Lubin, the CEO of Techstars, David Brown, and the founder of Global Innovation Catalyst, Kamran Elahian.

“Our purpose is to bring together the very best and the brightest in the new economy to share their ideas and successes for the benefit of the wider community and to stimulate collaboration, partnerships and joint endeavours that will accelerate progress in every field of human endeavour.”

Charle Charoenphan, co-founder of Hubba, added: “We have speakers and discussion groups at every level and covering everything from fintech to AI to blockchain and cryptocurrencies and health tech. We’ve put everything and everyone together into the pot: it’s the best way to make a great sauce.”

Currently the vast majority of revenue at the Google-owned service comes from advertising and that will remain a focus, said Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief products officer.

“But we also want to think beyond ads. Creators should have as many ways and opportunities to make money as possible,” he said.

Viewers will pay $4.99 a month for channel memberships giving them access to exclusive content including livestreams, extra videos or shout-outs on channels with more than 100,000 subscribers.

Creators will also be able to sell merchandise like shirts or phone cases directly on their channels, the company said.

YouTube returns a small part of its advertising revenue to content creators who regularly accuse the platform of giving them only crumbs.

The site is facing increasing competition from other platforms using more and more video.

YouTube says it has more than 1.9 billion users but the figure only counts those who log in via their accounts.