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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • 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 though 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

  • June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

    SailPoint charts course for AI-driven identity security

    SailPoint is driving the use of agentic AI in identity security with its Harbor Pilot offering while preparing to help enterprises govern and secure AI agents

  • June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

    How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI

    Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach

  • May 30, 2025 30 May'25

    Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy

    Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud

  • May 28, 2025 28 May'25

    Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers

    Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps

  • May 26, 2025 26 May'25

    Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future

    With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors

  • May 26, 2025 26 May'25

    Gprnt platform to ease sustainability reporting

    Singapore businesses can now automatically generate basic sustainability reports free of charge using Gprnt, a platform aimed at simplifying reporting and unlocking green financing

  • May 23, 2025 23 May'25

    Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI

    Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals

  • May 22, 2025 22 May'25

    How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt

    Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades

  • May 22, 2025 22 May'25

    Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands

    As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI

  • May 21, 2025 21 May'25

    Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum

    Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week

  • May 20, 2025 20 May'25

    Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy

    Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems

  • May 19, 2025 19 May'25

    Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential

    Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive

  • May 18, 2025 18 May'25

    AI’s thirst for power pushing enterprises into supercomputing

    The compute and energy demands of large-scale AI are turning enterprise AI infrastructure into supercomputing, though the search for a killer app and concerns over initial infrastructure costs remain

  • May 16, 2025 16 May'25

    Kissflow finds its place in low-code market

    The supplier of low-code software development tools that cater to both citizen developers and IT professionals is experiencing rapid growth in Southeast Asia where it has been doubling its revenue over the past four years

  • May 14, 2025 14 May'25

    New security paradigm needed for IT/OT convergence

    Industry leaders and policymakers highlight growing cyber threats from the integration of IT and operational technology systems, calling for collaboration and regulatory frameworks to protect critical systems, among other measures

  • May 07, 2025 07 May'25

    Bill Gates hails ‘stunning’ AI progress, urges focus on global equality

    The Microsoft co-founder underscored AI’s transformative potential in healthcare, education and agriculture while highlighting the need to ensure its benefits reach lower-income nations

  • May 05, 2025 05 May'25

    How AsiaPac transformed into a multicloud powerhouse

    AsiaPac CEO Andrew Cheng outlines the company’s growth from a laptop PC distributor to a regional technology service provider known for its multicloud capabilities

  • April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

    Juniper doubles down on AI as HPE deal faces scrutiny

    Juniper’s ANZ chief highlights strong enterprise adoption of the Mist networking platform, with AI-powered automation delivering cost savings and operational benefits for customers

  • April 29, 2025 29 Apr'25

    Kaspersky calls for cyber immunity amid growing cyber threats

    The rise of professional cyber crime groups and state-sponsored actors targeting critical infrastructure requires a move towards inherently secure ‘cyber immune’ systems, says Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky

  • April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

    Pharma leaders see AI revolutionising medicine

    Pharmaceutical industry experts at Gitex Asia 2025 discuss how AI is revolutionising drug discovery, from accelerating clinical trials and diagnosing rare diseases to validating traditional medicines

  • April 25, 2025 25 Apr'25

    How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design

    At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure

  • April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

    ASEAN telcos going beyond the 5G hype

    Telcos from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are moving beyond the 5G hype as they focus on driving enterprise 5G and AI adoption to drive value for customers

  • April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

    Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards

    Citic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025

  • April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

    CW Innovation Awards: Finding revenue gains from parked cars

    Singapore real estate investment firm CapitaLand Investment taps machine learning models to optimise space utilisation across 23 commercial buildings and business parks

  • April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

    CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco

    The digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service

  • April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

    CW Innovation Awards: Transforming cyber security with AI

    Facing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security audits and reduce costs

  • April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

    CW Innovation Awards: DBS AI assistant slashes call times and boosts productivity

    The bank’s in-house generative AI tool is streamlining customer service, reducing manual work and speeding up response times, improving both employee and customer experience

  • April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

    Standard Chartered grounds AI ambitions in data governance

    The bank’s group chief data officer, Mohammed Rahim, outlines how the bank is modernising its data infrastructure and governance practices to support its AI initiatives

  • April 16, 2025 16 Apr'25

    Security leaders grapple with AI-driven threats

    Experts warn of AI’s dual role in both empowering and challenging cyber defences, and called for intelligence sharing and the need to strike a balance between AI-driven innovation and existing security practices

  • April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

    Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings

    The Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure

  • April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

    Warranty fraud fuels hidden army of hardware hackers

    Widespread warranty fraud is not only costing companies billions but also creating a breeding ground for advanced hardware exploits, warns hardware hacker and researcher Bunnie Huang at Black Hat Asia 2025

  • April 03, 2025 03 Apr'25

    Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security?

    As large language models permeate industries, experts at Black Hat Asia 2025 debate the need for LLM firewalls and explore their role in fending off emerging AI threats

  • April 01, 2025 01 Apr'25

    How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease

    Singapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments

  • March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

    Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI

    The Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare