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most reliable solutions to its various markets
At the helm is Maverick Shih, President, Smart BYOC Products, who is ensuring that Acer becomes a go-to solutions provider for cloud
step in.We sat down with Shih to find out how the BYOC business is shaping up, and how Acer is improving everything from taxi services to
staying in touch with parents.Acer started with cloud services a few years ago, and put you in charge of things at the company
for a very long time now, and even branching out to new technologies like AI within computing
otherWe are very B2B with providing IoT cloud services to other third parties
One of our values with BYOC is that the customer always owns their data
They have complete control over their data, even if they hire us to manage it for them
We can help customers with storage as well, so in our BYOC stack of services there is a security element to ensure that everything is stored
involved, while government security is also very important against cyberattacks
These are the two largest areas at the moment, but there will be more to come as IoT gets more and more connected.Internet of Things is such
Rather than it just being another small sensor on a device, we want it to become so much more.You also want to provide smart-city solutions
customers were calling to book a taxi, but it was taking more than six minutes to get a taxi to their location
data from taxis that were ordered and used our AI technology to predict certain areas and times where more taxis are needed
In this way when a customer calls, a taxi is able to arrive in half the time
There are for sure things that are coming, but it just needs time to warm up to the market.Are you going to leverage your knowledge and
future, AI, IoT, and cloud services all need a strong base
with our brand.Where do you see BYOC making the most impactFirstly will be helping companies to make a digital transformation with both our
large volume of data such as Google and afford to do things in-house
