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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

• 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

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft

  Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Snowflake founders reveal ‘cuckoo cloud’ vision that disrupted big data

  Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes reveal the journey that led to their data platform, their bet against Hadoop and why they still code on weekends to stay connected to their creation

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture

  New joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Seaco charts course for unified security strategy

  Shipping container leasing giant consolidates security tools onto a single platform, leveraging AI and extended detection and response to improve security operations

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime

  The tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue

• March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

  Chinese espionage group UNC3886 targets Juniper routers

  Advanced persistent threat group UNC3886 deployed custom backdoors on end-of-life Juniper Networks routers, underscoring the need for timely patching and advanced security monitoring

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  Singapore Airlines to roll out Salesforce Agentforce

  Singapore’s flagship carrier is deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agent platform to improve customer interactions and personalise experiences

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  Singapore IT leaders boost AI security defences

  Study reveals a surge in perceived importance of artificial intelligence for cyber security in Singapore, but declining investment in traditional measures raises concerns as sophisticated cyber attacks intensify

• March 07, 2025 07 Mar'25

  Managing security in the AI age

  Gartner experts offer guidance on harnessing AI’s power while mitigating its risks, from managing shadow AI to implementing security controls and policies

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play

  Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform

  India’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Singapore’s HomeTeamNS hit by ransomware attack

  The non-profit organisation suffered a ransomware attack that affected some servers containing employee and member data, prompting an investigation and enhanced security measures

• March 02, 2025 02 Mar'25

  AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts

  Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models

  The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience

  New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI

  Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth

• February 23, 2025 23 Feb'25

  Check Point co-founder on AI, quantum and independence

  Gil Shwed, Check Point’s co-founder and executive chairman, discusses the company’s focus on artificial intelligence-driven security and his commitment to remaining an independent force in the cyber security market

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  How organisations can secure AI agents

  Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities

  The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre

  Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  CPX 2025: Check Point CEO talks up hybrid mesh security

  At CPX 2025 in Bangkok, Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir outlined a vision for network security centred on hybrid mesh architecture and AI-powered capabilities

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  Lenovo CSO: AI adoption fuels security paranoia

  Doug Fisher, Lenovo’s chief security officer, outlines the company’s approach to security and AI governance, and the importance of having a strong security culture to combat cyber threats amplified by the use of AI

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore

  Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees

• February 09, 2025 09 Feb'25

  Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud

  Philippine insurer implements a cloud-based health insurance policy management system from DXC Technology to reduce policy issuance times and speed up product launches

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI

  Nearly half a million civil servants set to get access to Google Workspace with Gemini to improve delivery of public services

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025

  Organisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  New Relic extends observability to DeepSeek

  The observability tools supplier now offers enhanced monitoring for DeepSeek models to help businesses reduce the costs and risks of generative AI development

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  How Zebra is empowering frontline workers through tech

  Zebra Technologies’ CEO Bill Burns discusses the company’s growth strategy and how it is enhancing frontline worker capabilities through machine vision, artificial intelligence and robotics

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Inside CyberArk’s security strategy

  CyberArk CIO Omer Grossman talks up the company’s security-first ethos, the importance of an assumed breach mentality and how the company is addressing threats from the growing use of AI

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Zebra gallops ahead in APAC, driven by automation and e-commerce

  Zebra Technologies is riding the wave of e-commerce and automation in APAC, fuelling strong growth with RFID technology, tablets and scanners that boost business productivity and efficiency

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  APAC businesses face surge in email attacks

  Sophisticated phishing and business email compromise campaigns are increasingly targeting organisations across the Asia-Pacific region, research reveals