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present the Asian version of Pretty Little for critical discussions around friendship, world. The characters and relationships
Liars. With this adaptation, we set out empowerment and the consequences of have been adapted for local appeal, while
to honor the iconic Warner Bros. series, cyber-bullying." Director Emil Heradi said, the strong twists and turns of the original
while ensuring the core themes relate "The series was fully shot in Bali, with a series were given a Viu-style makeover.
to the hearts and minds of our audience brilliant cast and top-notch feature film I appreciate Viu’s expertise in taking
members. Importantly, this gripping and crew that was focused on showcasing international formats and making them
binge-worthy series will provide a platform premium Asian cinematic values to the locally relevant."

Tech Mahindra and IBM to Help Their Clients
Modernize Operations Leveraging Cloud

Tech Mahindra Ltd. a leading provider to support global system integrators and they are pre-integrated to deliver specific
of digital transformation, consulting and independent software vendors to help customer use cases, they can help
business reengineering services and clients modernize and transform mission- quickly address pressing challenges for
solutions, is collaborating with IBM to help critical workloads on the IBM public cloud. businesses across multiple industries.”
businesses transform their operations and The IBM public cloud is the industry’s Tech Mahindra aims to help clients build
accelerate their hybrid cloud strategies. most open and secure public cloud for scalable, cloud-native applications that
Tech Mahindra will help clients migrate business. With its security leadership, can help address the most critical data and
core business applications to the IBM enterprise-grade capabilities and support workload. Tech Mahindra’s technologists
public cloud using IBM Cloud Paks. As part for open source technologies, the IBM can also assist Communication Service
of this relationship, IBM and Tech Mahindra public cloud is designed to differentiate Providers (CSPs) to develop network
will establish innovation centers designed and extend on hybrid cloud capabilities for automation solutions, IT infrastructure
to help address complex business enterprise workloads. “This collaboration and application modernization, further
problems across industries, including with Tech Mahindra is designed to help helping clients shift complex and mission-
telecommunication, manufacturing, speed how businesses migrate critical critical enterprise workloads to the IBM
financial services, insurance, retail and enterprise workloads to the IBM public public cloud. The collaboration is in line
healthcare. The first center is planned cloud and transform their operations using with Tech Mahindra’s TechMNxt charter,
to open in Bengaluru, India, later this cloud-native technologies,” said Bob Lord, which focuses on providing solutions that
year and specialize in transformation SVP, Cognitive Applications, Blockchain enable digital transformation and meet the
solutions built with IBM Cloud Paks, and Ecosystems, IBM. “IBM Cloud Paks customer’s evolving and dynamic needs.
enterprise-ready containerized software are designed to help businesses speed The innovation centers will be driven by
solutions running on Red Hat OpenShift. their journeys to the cloud by giving them Tech Mahindra’s spirit to deliver tangible
Tech Mahindra currently plans to open the flexibility and choice they need to business value and experiences to solve
additional centers throughout North modernize their applications. Because real business problems.
America and the United Kingdom in 2020.
Pawan Sharma, President & Global Head of
Strategic Initiatives at Tech Mahindra, said
“The collaboration with IBM will help us
accelerate the development of cloud-based
applications for our customers and build
multicloud data management solutions
on the industry-leading hybrid platform.
The commitment to building Innovation
Centers aligns with our TechMNxt charter,
an initiative that leverages emerging
technology to solve real-world business
problems for customers.” Tech Mahindra
is the latest company to join the IBM
public cloud ecosystem, a new initiative

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