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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

    Without a data strategy, AI will just scale your chaos

    Snowflake’s chief data analytics officer, Anahita Tafvizi, explains why a data strategy focused on governance, consistency and accuracy is the only way to build artificial intelligence that users will trust

  • August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

    Singapore board directors to get cyber crisis training

    The Singapore Institute of Directors and Ensign InfoSecurity have launched a programme to equip 1,000 board leaders with the skills to navigate high-stakes decisions during a cyber crisis

  • August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

    Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform

    Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts

  • August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

    Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience

    Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience

  • August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

    SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

    The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

  • August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

    Cloudera touts hybrid data platform to power enterprise AI boom

    At its Evolve APAC 2025 conference in Singapore, Cloudera promises to end the compromise between on-premise data control and public cloud convenience with its hybrid data platform

  • August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

    Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft

    The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities

  • August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

    Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel

    The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom

  • August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

    How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security

    Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security

  • August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

    Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector

    A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures

  • August 03, 2025 03 Aug'25

    NUS and Google team up on AI research centre

    The National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state

  • August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

    Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme

    Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents

  • July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

    Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25bn

    The deal marks Palo Alto Networks’ entry into the identity and access management space amid the growing need to secure human, machine and emerging AI agent identities

  • July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

    ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play

    The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market

  • July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

    Industry experts warn crypto infrastructure is ‘creaking’

    A report from experts at HSBC, Thales and InfoSec Global claims decades-old cryptographic systems are failing, putting businesses at risk from current vulnerabilities and the threat from quantum computing

  • July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

    Logicalis targets APAC’s mid-market with ‘GSI quality’ services

    The global technology service provider is banking on its ‘think global, act local’ strategy, a deep focus on application modernisation and security to differentiate itself in the region

  • July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

    Microsoft opens first Southeast Asia research lab

    Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore facility will pursue breakthroughs in domain-specific foundation models and agentic AI for sectors like healthcare and finance, aligning with the country’s AI strategy

  • July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

    ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy

    ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications

  • July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

    Colt targets crypto traders with low-latency connectivity

    Connectivity service aims to give digital asset traders and enterprises deploying AI applications a performance edge by connecting cloud regions faster than native backbones

  • July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

    ASEAN urged to seize 5G-AI opportunity

    A report warns the region could miss out on economic opportunities as the growing digital divide between ASEAN member states threatens to undermine its competitiveness

  • July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

    Singapore under ongoing cyber attack from APT group

    Nation-state actor UNC3886 is actively targeting Singapore’s critical national infrastructure in a sophisticated espionage and disruption campaign, with the country mounting a whole-of-government response

  • July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

    ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore

    The fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network

  • July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

    Hackbots biggest cloud security risk, slashing attack times to minutes

    With cyber criminals using automated tools to steal data in minutes, organisations must focus on runtime protection and automated responses to combat the rising threat from AI and misconfigured cloud assets

  • July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

    Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform

    As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO

  • July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

    Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

    The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share

  • July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

    AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

    As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president

  • July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

    AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications

  • July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

    CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

    Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation

  • July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

    Proofpoint bets on APAC growth amid spike in AI-driven threats

    With cyber attacks spiking in non-English-speaking markets such as Japan, the security firm is boosting its regional presence to combat a wave of AI-generated threats

  • July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

    Digital warfare is blurring civilian front lines

    Singapore’s defence cyber chief warns that the traditional lines between military conflict and civilian life are blurring, with adversaries now targeting civilian systems and using AI to put the threat landscape on steroids

  • July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

    Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

    The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters

  • July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

    How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

    The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages

  • July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

    Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

    Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms

  • July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

    Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

    To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive

  • June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

    Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI

    At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents

  • June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

    Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

    The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery

  • June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

    Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption

    Many generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data

  • June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

    Innovation culture is in our DNA, says Alibaba chairman

    Alibaba chair Joe Tsai on why the company is open sourcing its large language model, how it dealt with the DeepSeek crisis, and plans for the future

  • June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

    Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative

    The AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities

  • June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

    AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation

    At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges

  • June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

    How breaking things builds resilient systems

    To prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems through chaos engineering practices

  • June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

    Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era

    Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference

  • June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

    Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

    From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China

  • June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

    FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store

    The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet

  • June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

    How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps

    GitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response

  • June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

    Open source adoption faces reality checks

    Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges