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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

    More than 60% of world population will use digital wallets by 2026

    Global take-up of digital wallets will accelerate over the next four years, driven by ‘super apps’ and QR code-based payments

  • August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

    Twilio eyes CDP opportunity in APAC

    Twilio is tapping opportunities in customer data platforms and will deploy APAC instances of its Segment platform next year

  • August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

    VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal

    Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers

  • August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

    CloudMile banks on trust in regional expansion

    Taiwanese cloud and AI startup CloudMile keeps its billing transparent and provides round-the-clock support to build trust with customers as it grows its business in Southeast Asia

  • July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

    HPE expands private cloud capabilities in GreenLake

    HPE’s GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise is a managed service that provides flexibility in deployment models with automation capabilities for a cloud-like experience

  • July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

    APAC organisations renew focus on ERP

    Organisations in Asia-Pacific are looking to renew their enterprise resource planning systems as they emerge from the throes of the pandemic

  • July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

    How Bank BPD Bali modernised its datacentre infrastructure

    The Indonesian bank has deployed the Nutanix Cloud Platform in a move to modernise its datacentre infrastructure and pave the way towards hybrid and multi-cloud

  • July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

    UK signs ‘in principle’ data adequacy agreement with South Korea

    Bilateral adequacy agreement will allow businesses to conduct cross-border data transfers with minimal restrictions

  • July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

    Most APAC banks to spend more on cloud this year

    More than nine in 10 banks across Asia-Pacific are increasing their cloud spending in 2022 after years of hesitation due to initial regulatory hurdles

  • July 05, 2022 05 Jul'22

    LogRhythm bullish on growth in APAC

    LogRhythm expects its business in the region to grow by over 20% this year thanks to demand from emerging economies where cyber security investments have not kept pace with cyber threats

  • July 04, 2022 04 Jul'22

    How Lenovo is making the transition into services

    Although Lenovo is late to the as-a-service game, it is making headway through its One Lenovo and services-led transformation strategies, says a top company executive

  • June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

    How MSD is harnessing AI

    MSD’s global lead for artificial intelligence discusses what it will take for the technology to realise its full potential in healthcare

  • June 27, 2022 27 Jun'22

    China’s Cyclone Robotics eyes APAC market

    One of China’s largest suppliers of robotic process automation software has made a foray into Asia-Pacific, leveraging its bot management and ‘human-in-the-loop’ capabilities

  • June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

    Developers grapple with open source software security

    Software developers are taking longer to fix vulnerabilities and many do not know about the dependencies of open source software components they are using, study finds

  • June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

    How TDCX is building a people-centric business

    Every digital tool deployed by the Singapore-based services firm is aimed at augmenting the performance and experience of its employees, says TDCX’s group CIO, Byron Fernandez

  • June 20, 2022 20 Jun'22

    Hyundai taps Singtel’s 5G network in electric vehicle manufacturing

    Automotive giant is tapping Singtel’s 5G network and multi-access edge computing platform to manage and power its electric vehicle factory in Singapore

  • June 20, 2022 20 Jun'22

    Neo4j teams up with Deloitte in ASEAN push

    Neo4j is partnering with consulting firm Deloitte to meet the demand for graph technology on the back of its growing business in the ASEAN region

  • June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

    APAC life sciences firms face HPC challenges

    More than half of pharmaceutical and biotech companies expect over 10% growth in genomic workloads but are facing scalability and other challenges with their HPC infrastructure

  • June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

    How digital twins can improve datacentre operations

    Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses

  • June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

    How Pfizer is leveraging technology in healthcare

    Pfizer uses predictive modelling to recruit patients for clinical trials and supercomputers to identity candidate molecules that go into antiviral drugs, among other technology use cases

  • May 31, 2022 31 May'22

    Singapore doubles down on quantum technology

    The city-state is shoring up its quantum talent and quantum device manufacturing capabilities in a bid to advance its knowhow in the emerging technology

  • May 30, 2022 30 May'22

    Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal

    VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market

  • May 27, 2022 27 May'22

    NUS students learn to handle agitated patients through VR

    Medical and nursing students at the National University of Singapore’s medical school will soon don virtual reality headsets to learn how to handle agitated patients

  • May 25, 2022 25 May'22

    Rubrik charts data security path

    Backup and recovery software provider Rubrik now sees itself as a cyber security company that helps organisations recover from ransomware and other data security threats

  • May 24, 2022 24 May'22

    Bad bots make up a quarter of APAC’s web traffic

    Bots that run automated tasks have been responsible for stealing personal information among other malicious activities in the Asia-Pacific region, study finds

  • May 23, 2022 23 May'22

    How Ivanti views patch management with a security lens

    Bringing development, operations and security teams together will help organisations to improve their visibility of IT assets and vulnerabilities while keeping threat actors at bay

  • May 19, 2022 19 May'22

    Singapore opens security testing centre

    Joint centre set up by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore and a local university will facilitate security testing and train security evaluation talent

  • May 18, 2022 18 May'22

    Veeam to continue growth momentum in APAC

    Veeam expects its backup offerings that protect ‘strategic workloads’ such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce to continue driving its growth momentum in the region

  • May 17, 2022 17 May'22

    Veeam outlines data protection vision

    Veeam is looking to achieve an “outsized market leading position” by tapping its strengths in data protection and doubling down on innovation to help enterprises secure emerging workloads

  • May 16, 2022 16 May'22

    Keeping Singapore’s critical systems secure

    Tracy Thng offers a glimpse into her work in strengthening the cyber resilience of 11 essential service sectors in Singapore

  • May 13, 2022 13 May'22

    Organisational silos hampering integration efforts in Asia

    Many organisations in Asia still approach integration in silos, choosing to build hard coded integrations that tend to be brittle and more prone to failure

  • May 11, 2022 11 May'22

    IBM lived up to its neutrality promise to Red Hat

    Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier claims IBM has lived up to its commitment to maintain the neutrality of Red Hat three years on

  • May 11, 2022 11 May'22

    SAP ‘optimistic’ about S/4 Hana in APAC

    A top SAP executive is confident that more of its customers in Asia-Pacific will adopt S/4 Hana this year, as the company shores up integration of its ERP software with other business applications

  • May 09, 2022 09 May'22

    Malaysian government inks agreement with Google Cloud

    The cloud framework agreement with Google will make it easier for Malaysia’s public sector agencies to access Google Cloud services through a single government contract

  • May 06, 2022 06 May'22

    How Rimini Street is growing its footprint in ASEAN

    Rimini Street is expanding its reach in ASEAN as more companies, such as Malaysian carmaker Proton, look for cheaper software maintenance options

  • May 04, 2022 04 May'22

    Inside UnaBiz’s bid for Sigfox

    Singapore-based UnaBiz has made a successful bid for the French low-power wide area network technology supplier, in a deal that will advance its vision of a unified IoT world

  • April 25, 2022 25 Apr'22

    Mimecast makes deeper push into ASEAN

    Mimecast opens regional office in Singapore and is looking at setting up a datacentre in Southeast Asia as it makes a deeper push into the region

  • April 22, 2022 22 Apr'22

    How Adnovum is leveraging its Swiss roots

    Software company Adnovum is leveraging its strengths in identity and access management and its Swiss heritage as it expands into new markets and areas such as zero-trust security

  • April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

    How PropertyGuru is approaching technology integration

    Property tech firm PropertyGuru has invested in capabilities such as DevOps and authentication that can be applied across different platforms that it has acquired over time

  • April 18, 2022 18 Apr'22

    Singtel expands datacentre footprint in Indonesia

    Singtel’s datacentre platform will host selected datacentre assets from Indonesia’s Telkom as part of the telco’s move to grow its datacentre footprint in key regional markets

  • April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

    Singapore to start licensing cyber security service providers

    Those providing penetration testing and SOC services will need to apply for a licence under a new licensing regime that is expected to safeguard consumer interests and improve service standards

  • April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

    APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint

    Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are moving from their own datacentres into co-location facilities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and lower their carbon footprint

  • April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

    AirAsia taps Google Cloud to bolster its super-app

    AirAsia is setting up a cloud centre of excellence with Google Cloud to shore up its super-app and build capabilities in site reliability engineering and machine learning operations

  • April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

    APAC organisations to spend more on AI

    The higher investments in AI will be led by the region’s banking industry which is harnessing AI systems to mitigate risks and detect fraud