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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

    DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams

    The CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages

  • July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

    Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC

    Neo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models

  • July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

    How iProov is fending off deepfake fraud

    Facial biometrics and controlled illumination can detect liveness, verify identities and help prevent deepfake attacks

  • July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

    Incubator Plexal heads to Singapore for CyberBoost

    Cyber startup hub Plexal expands its presence to Singapore through a new initiative, and sets its sights on helping new UK businesses break into the booming Asia-Pacific market

  • July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

    How Snowflake is tackling AI challenges

    Snowflake’s regional leader Sanjay Deshmukh outlines how the company is helping customers to tackle the security, skills and cost challenges of AI implementations

  • July 08, 2024 08 Jul'24

    Singtel, SK Telecom gear up for 6G future

    Both telcos will work together to develop advanced network slicing, telco APIs and edge AI infrastructure, among other capabilities, to pave way for 6G deployments

  • July 04, 2024 04 Jul'24

    How Qualtrics is driving experience management with AI

    During the Sydney leg of its X4 conference, Qualtrics’ top executives dived deeper into its efforts to help organisations improve customer and employee experiences with AI

  • July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

    Kyndryl eyes mainframe workloads in ASEAN

    Kyndryl and AWS open centre of excellence in Malaysia to help ASEAN enterprises modernise and migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud

  • June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

    How FWD is driving its digital strategy

    FWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services

  • June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

    How Recorded Future is operationalising threat intelligence

    Recorded Future is investing in APIs to enable automated security workflows, among other measures, to help organisations overcome the hurdles of operationalising threat intelligence

  • June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

    Gulf Edge to operate Google Distributed Cloud in Thailand

    The Gulf Energy subsidiary will offer Google’s sovereign cloud service in Thailand with a focus on air-gapped configurations

  • June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

    TDCX and Supa team up on data labelling

    TDCX has teamed up with data labelling firm Supa to speed up data labelling with up to 98% accuracy using the human-in-the-loop approach

  • June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

    Epicor rides Southeast Asia manufacturing boom

    Midmarket ERP software supplier capitalising on growing investments by Chinese and local manufacturing firms in region to drive business

  • June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

    Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption

    Tableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI

  • June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

    Driving customer experience through cloud and AI

    Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience

  • June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

    Sophos uncovers Chinese state-sponsored campaign in Southeast Asia

    Sophos found three distinct clusters of activity targeted at a high-level government organisation that appeared to be tied to Chinese interests in the South China Sea

  • June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

    How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’

    Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business

  • May 31, 2024 31 May'24

    IBM, AI Singapore to bolster Sea-Lion LLM

    IBM will work with AI Singapore on technical exchanges to enhance Sea-Lion and make the region’s first LLM available to data scientists and engineers through its AI use case library

  • May 30, 2024 30 May'24

    FWD teams up with AWS on cloud

    The pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services

  • May 29, 2024 29 May'24

    How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

    Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy

  • May 26, 2024 26 May'24

    Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

    Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

  • May 23, 2024 23 May'24

    APAC to gain $4.5tn in economic value from GenAI

    The region’s largest economies could see a 0.7 percentage point increase in their annual GDP by leveraging generative AI responsibly at scale with a focus on people

  • May 23, 2024 23 May'24

    Munich Re sees strong growth in AI insurance

    Global reinsurance giant Munich Re expects more demand for AI insurance from organisations that are looking to manage the risks of AI as they experiment more with the technology

  • May 20, 2024 20 May'24

    Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves

    Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware

  • May 17, 2024 17 May'24

    Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum

    The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton

  • May 15, 2024 15 May'24

    Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements

    Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks

  • May 13, 2024 13 May'24

    How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

    SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

  • May 09, 2024 09 May'24

    Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

    Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

  • May 07, 2024 07 May'24

    Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

    Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads

  • May 07, 2024 07 May'24

    AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure

    The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028

  • May 03, 2024 03 May'24

    Why IAM is central to cyber security

    BeyondTrust’s chief security strategist talks up the importance of identity and access management, and the role of cyber insurance in driving security improvements

  • May 02, 2024 02 May'24

    How Okta is fending off identity-based attacks

    Okta has been bolstering the security of its own infrastructure and building new tools to scan customer environments for vulnerable identities, among other efforts to fend off identity-based attacks

  • April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

    Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey

    Oracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey

  • April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

    Zero trust is a strategy, not a technology

    Zero-trust security should be seen as a strategy to protect high-value assets and is not tied to a specific technology or product, says the model’s creator John Kindervag

  • April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

    Digital Edge punching above its weight in Asia datacentre market

    Fast-growing datacentre provider Digital Edge is eyeing business from hyperscalers and counting on its strengths in datacentre operations and local partnerships to stand out from rivals

  • April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

    CSA warns of emerging security risks with cloud and AI

    Few users appreciate the security risks of cloud and have the expertise to implement the complex security controls, says CSA chief executive David Koh

  • April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

    VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes

    VMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term

  • April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

    CW Innovation Awards: Making AI pervasive

    DBS Bank’s AI Industrialisation Programme has been instrumental in industrialising the use of data and artificial intelligence across its business, resulting in over S$370m of incremental economic benefits

  • April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

    CW Innovation Awards: Balancing security and user experience

    The National University of Singapore’s Safe initiative has strengthened the security of IT systems and end-user devices while prioritising user experience through passwordless access

  • April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

    Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation

    DBS Bank and NUS were among the top industry innovators that were lauded for various transformational initiatives at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2024