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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • 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

  • January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

    Global IT spending to soar in 2025

    S&P Global Ratings expects a 9% surge in global IT spending for 2025, fuelled by demand for AI and cloud technologies, despite potential trade headwinds and a slowing global economy

  • January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

    Cohesity CEO on Veritas integration and IPO plans

    Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen shares his vision for integrating Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, uniting 12,000 customers, driving AI-powered innovation and building a public-ready company

  • January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

    Gramedia speeds up inventory checks with RFID

    Indonesian bookstore giant has sped up inventory checks, minimised shrinkage and improved customer experience with RFID-powered checkout kiosks and exit gates

  • January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

    AWS plants flag in Thailand with new cloud region

    Amazon Web Services’ latest regional expansion brings its cloud services to Thailand, promising a $10bn boost to the nation's GDP and support for more than 11,000 jobs per year

  • January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

    How StarHub is tapping OpenShift in its cloud strategy

    StarHub is harnessing Red Hat OpenShift to power its hybrid multi-cloud platform, balancing control over critical infrastructure with the scalability and flexibility of public cloud

  • January 05, 2025 05 Jan'25

    Digital Edge secures $1.6bn to fuel regional expansion

    Singapore-based datacentre provider has raised over $1.6bn in equity and debt financing to meet growing demand for cloud and AI infrastructure across Asia

  • December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

    Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2024

    Southeast Asia’s 2024 tech landscape saw major companies embracing AI, shifts in open source and the emergence of local large language models to address the needs of a diverse region

  • December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

    VMware customers seek alternatives amid licensing changes

    Research reveals that while most VMware customers are satisfied with their current software, they are exploring alternatives due to concerns over rising costs

  • December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

    How NCS is tackling the enterprise IT market

    The technology service provider is counting on its government experience, global expert network and cyber security capabilities to penetrate the enterprise IT market

  • December 13, 2024 13 Dec'24

    Google Cloud’s Agentspace to unlock enterprise data

    Agentspace uses AI agents to automate workflows and connect to multiple data sources to perform tasks and deliver insights, boosting enterprise productivity and efficiency

  • December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

    Freshworks rides Asia’s digital wave

    The enterprise software firm’s exponential growth in the region is driven by demand for streamlined customer and employee experiences by its mid-market customers