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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Hitachi Vantara ups ante on industrial IoT

  Potential internet of things powerhouse believes its deep expertise in operational technology will give it a leg up over traditional IT rivals

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Digital economy to make up 60% of APAC’s GDP by 2021

  The surge in GDP contribution will come as more organisations shift from digital transformation initiatives aimed at shoring up productivity towards digital product development

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Hong Kong, Singapore to continue datacentre bull run

  The two Asian cities, Hong Kong and Singapore, will remain primary destinations for datacentre deployments in the APAC region for the foreseeable future

• February 15, 2018 15 Feb'18

  Dell EMC’s IoT revenue in APAC surpasses $1bn

  The milestone in Dell EMC’s internet of things revenue underscores the APAC region’s rapid uptake of sensors and other IoT devices in industries and smart city projects

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  APAC fintech market set to bloom

  Government support, the rise of digital payments and a new breed of financial services will put the region’s financial technology market in overdrive over the next few years

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  PyeongChang Winter Games hit by cyber attack

  Although critical operations were not affected by the incident, event organisers at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics had to shut down servers and the official games website to prevent further damage

• February 09, 2018 09 Feb'18

  Malaysian regulator and firm sued over data breach

  The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission and a local company have been caught in a civil lawsuit over a massive data breach reported last year

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  HPE opens APAC innovation lab to tap IoT market

  Facility in Singapore will rope in partners across the internet of things ecosystem to test new applications powered by HPE’s edge computing capabilities

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  AstraZeneca inks deals with Alibaba and Tencent in AI push

  Pharmaceutical bigwig AstraZeneca hopes to deliver smart healthcare services and combat online sales of counterfeit drugs through tie-ups with Chinese tech giants

• February 04, 2018 04 Feb'18

  APAC business leaders divided on impact of AI

  Around half of business leaders in the APAC region do not think they will have greater job satisfaction by offloading work to machines, or see a need for machines to decipher between good and bad commands

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  ASEAN nations among worst hit by cryptocurrency-mining operation

  Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia recorded high download numbers for the XMRig software that was surreptitiously slipped into user devices to mine Monero

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  What CIOs need to watch out for in digital transformation

  IT head honchos will need to consider new performance indicators, adopt an embedded digital business model and build up an enterprise-wide digital platform to avoid digital deadlock

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  Alibaba Cloud to tackle Malaysia’s traffic woes with AI

  Chinese cloud service provider Alibaba will use its City Brain artificial intelligence platform to analyse data from camera feeds and traffic junctions in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur

• January 28, 2018 28 Jan'18

  How blockchain can secure the IoT

  By doing away with a central authority in internet of things (IoT) networks, blockchain technology can reduce the risk of IoT devices being compromised by a single point of security failure

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  AWS opens third availability zone in Singapore

  Cloud service provider is upping the ante in a region that has been lapping up cloud infrastructure services to advance digitisation efforts

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  China’s Yitu eyes ASEAN market with facial recognition know-how

  Facial recognition software specialist Yitu, which recently won a face identification accuracy contest in the US, has already nabbed regional clients such as Singapore’s Certis Cisco

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Taking complexity out of cyber security

  The key to improving the cyber security posture of organisations is to keep complexity at bay, according to a senior Microsoft executive

• January 21, 2018 21 Jan'18

  Telstra invests in two new submarine cables to bolster Asia-US connectivity

  The Hong Kong Americas and Pacific Light Cable Network cables will provide more robust connectivity to support the Asia-Pacific region’s growing internet traffic

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Davos: Disintegration of the internet could create economic turmoil

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by fake news, cyber attacks, and artificial intelligence to jobs, political stability and global security, at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Growing interest in hybrid IT in ASEAN

  CIOs and IT professionals in Southeast Asia have earmarked hybrid infrastructure as a top priority in 2018, in spite of waning interest across the wider Asia-Pacific region

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Advanced Asian countries well positioned for Industry 4.0

  The industrialised economies of Asia are well-poised to benefit from advanced manufacturing and emerging technologies, but true industrial transformation remains nascent

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Telecoms industry at major tipping point

  Communications service providers should gear up for a software-driven operations model and embrace microservices and DevOps to thrive in the digital economy

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  China to open $2.1bn AI tech park in Beijing

  An area in the western part of Chinese capital Beijing has been designated as the launchpad for China to hone its capabilities in artificial intelligence

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Intel, Nokia prepping APAC telcos for 5G wave

  The two tech firms are among others that have been working with telcos across the Asia-Pacific region to test 5G technologies and applications

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  What the EU’s new data protection regime means for ASEAN

  A large proportion of businesses in the regional economic grouping will be affected by Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, but awareness of the new rules remains low, even in countries with existing data protection laws

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Colt to expand datacentre footprint in APAC

  Datacentre service provider Colt is laying the groundwork to build datacentres in India and Singapore, and is working on new datacentre technologies to improve energy efficiency

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  How machine learning is applied in industrial IoT

  GE Digital calls for the need to build industrial machine learning systems that are cognizant of the effects of a good and bad answer

• December 14, 2017 14 Dec'17

  Top cyber security predictions in APAC in 2018

  Cyber criminals will ramp up efforts to mine cryptocurrencies, while mobile malware will rear its ugly head across the APAC region in 2018

• December 13, 2017 13 Dec'17

  HP is running its global print supplies production from Singapore

  The personal computing and printer giant has opened a facility in Singapore to oversee over 50 print supplies manufacturing lines and test the use of robots, data analytics and 3D printing to improve production efficiency

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Australia-Singapore submarine cable connection cut again

  The damage to the SEA-ME-WE3 cable took place more than 1,000 km from Singapore, affecting Australian internet users who can expect increased latency to Asian destinations

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2018

  A “mega cloud” that weaves together multiple private and public clouds, along with the use of AI to perform data-driven “thinking tasks”, could emerge next year

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  IoT and artificial intelligence dominate APAC tech landscape in 2017

  Businesses across the APAC region have started to dip their toes into AI and the internet of things to improve operations and stay competitive

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  DataRobot to boost AI in Singapore with new APAC headquarters

  Boston-based supplier of artificial intelligence tools DataRobot is investing around $11m in a regional office and research outfit in Singapore

• November 15, 2017 15 Nov'17

  How the biggest cyber security disasters could have been avoided

  The headline-grabbing breaches that hit Accenture and Equifax in 2017 could have been averted had basic cyber hygiene been in place

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  DBS teams up with Equinix to reduce datacentre footprint

  Building on earlier efforts to harness cloud computing to support growing compute workloads, DBS’s new private cloud datacentre will be smaller, greener and cheaper to run

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  Personal data of 46.2 million Malaysia mobile subscribers leaked

  The massive data breach is yet another example of a ‘low and slow’ attack that stays dormant inside networks for years, without anyone noticing

• October 23, 2017 23 Oct'17

  Microservices are about organisational change

  Microservices technology can pave the way for companies to decentralise the way they build software to deliver innovation and reduce the cost of failure

• October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17

  Singapore’s public sector finds agility and speed in AWS

  City-state’s government has been able to meet peak demands and address security issues through a cloud-based web-hosting platform powered by Amazon Web Services

• September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17

  RHB Bank rolls out chatbot for loan applications

  The Malaysian lender hopes to improve the loan application experience and grow its personal loan business by 60% through a new chatbot

• September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17

  Nation-state actors responsible for most cyber attacks

  Companies of all sizes may find themselves faced with highly capable state-sponsored cyber attacks, but steps can be taken to shore up defences

• September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17

  Veritas takes stock of data management play

  Software supplier Veritas says it has delivered on its promises but there is still work to do in realising its data management vision

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Technology vital to healthcare in Asia-Pacific

  The opportunities for technology to improve healthcare services were explored at HIMSS AsiaPac17 in Singapore, but experts warned that challenges must be addressed before innovation can truly transform the sector

• July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17

  Singapore begins quest for high-rise datacentres

  Huawei, Keppel Data Centres and the Singapore government will assess the feasibility of building high-rise facilities amid growing demand for datacentre capacity in the region

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  The dawn of a new era for Dell EMC

  Dell EMC’s Paul Henaghan is no stranger to industry consolidation, having worked for tech companies that were acquired by Oracle and Software AG. Here, the president of Dell EMC in South Asia and Korea shares what it is doing to streamline its ...

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  What Singapore can learn from Israel’s cyber security playbook

  A former Unit 8200 captain from the Israel Defense Forces shares what Singapore can learn from Israel’s approach to cyber security

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  Australia’s Whispir dials into global market

  Fast-growing cloud-based communications service provider expects to more than double its workforce within a year, and grow its business in the double-digit range

• July 07, 2017 07 Jul'17

  Europe takes measured approach to 5G, driven by ROI concerns

  European operators may be more concerned with getting the maximum value for money from their 3G and 4G networks than rushing to roll out 5G

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  Kaspersky researcher in Asia develops cyber forensics tool

  The open source tool lets cyber forensics investigators access infected machines remotely to collect malware artefacts without compromising system integrity

• July 04, 2017 04 Jul'17

  Collaboration is key to combating cyber crime

  Interpol has called for speedy and effective information-sharing between law enforcement agencies, governments, businesses and cyber security companies to counter growing cyber threats

• June 30, 2017 30 Jun'17

  Dreamscape to merge with Singapore hosting provider in regional expansion

  The Australian hosting provider will tap Vodien’s infrastructure to address the needs of mobile-first businesses in Southeast Asia that are going online for the first time