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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • 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

  • April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

    Google Cloud debuts agent builder to ease GenAI adoption

    Vertex AI Agent Builder is touted to enable developers with different levels of expertise to build conversational AI agents grounded in enterprise data

  • April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

    Google Cloud embeds Gemini across product portfolio

    Google Cloud’s Gemini model will power a slew of AI assistant capabilities across its portfolio to bring the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users

  • April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

    What Cisco’s Splunk acquisition means for APAC customers

    APAC organisations can expect better visibility and insights into their networks and applications along with automation and response capabilities to improve their digital resilience

  • April 05, 2024 05 Apr'24

    How Oracle Red Bull Racing guards against cyber threats

    The F1 team is tapping managed security services, conducting penetration tests and improving security awareness among employees to fend off cyber threats such as phishing and ransomware

  • April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

    Boomi CEO anticipates rise of the AI agent economy

    Boomi CEO talks up the company’s efforts to build up an AI agent architecture, its upcoming AI capabilities set to debut next month, and its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

  • March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

    How SAP is infusing AI into its business applications

    SAP’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company’s approach towards AI and how it is making the technology more accessible to customers

  • March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

    Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

    Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix

  • March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

    How Vast Data is simplifying data infrastructure

    Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company’s unified data platform that combines storage, database and compute capabilities into a single technology stack can improve the efficiency of analytics and artificial intelligence workloads

  • March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

    Singtel to host Vultr’s GPU workloads in AI datacentres

    Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region hosted in Singtel’s AI datacentres by the third quarter this year

  • March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

    More DDoS attacks launched against APAC financial firms

    The financial sector in Asia-Pacific saw more DDoS attacks in 2023, but no notable impact was reported, according to a report by Akamai and FS-ISAC

  • March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

    AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs

    AI Singapore and Google Research Asia-Pacific will build a corpus of open-source training data through Project SEALD to drive the development of LLMs in Southeast Asia

  • March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

    How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services

    Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector

  • March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

    Singapore refreshes geospatial masterplan

    Masterplan aimed at driving mainstream adoption of geospatial applications and grooming geospatial talent, among other goals, will help to position Singapore as a global geospatial hub

  • March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

    How PSA is reducing empty trips for trucking firms

    The Singapore port operator has built a platform that leverages Here Technologies’ trip planning and location services to help container trucking firms improve operational efficiency

  • March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

    APAC firms bullish on IT spending

    More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region

  • February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

    How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity

    TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories

  • February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

    Global telcos team up on large language models

    Global Telco AI Alliance comprising telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East will form joint venture to build multilingual LLMs that are more attuned to telco domain

  • February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

    Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio

    Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models

  • February 18, 2024 18 Feb'24

    Singapore to invest S$1bn in AI over five years

    The funding will go towards compute, talent, and industry development to support Singapore’s national AI strategy

  • February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

    How DBS is industrialising AI across its business

    Southeast Asia’s biggest lender is building a strong data foundation and upskilling employees on data and artificial intelligence to realise its vision of becoming an AI-fuelled bank

  • February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

    Inside NetApp’s cloud and AI strategy

    NetApp’s senior executives talk up the company’s efforts to support AI initiatives and deliver first-party storage services on public cloud platforms

  • January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

    Singtel ropes in industry partners in datacentre push

    Singtel inks partnerships with Nvidia, Gulf Energy, Medco and others in its efforts to grow its datacentre business and support AI adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia

  • January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

    Google Cloud teams up with Singapore government on AI initiatives

    Over 100 generative AI use cases have been tested through the AI Trailblazers programme, among other initiatives to spur AI adoption and build AI talent in the city-state

  • January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

    Inside Cisco’s security platform strategy

    Raj Chopra, senior vice-president of Cisco’s security business, outlines the company’s security platform strategy and how it brought different products together into a single platform

  • January 21, 2024 21 Jan'24

    Stellar Lifestyle opens high-tech retail space

    The Hive 2.0 retail space in Esplanade Xchange uses AI and robots to enable self-checkout, prepare and serve beverages, and deliver items to offices in a nearby building

  • January 17, 2024 17 Jan'24

    Singapore proposes governance framework for generative AI

    AI Verify Foundation and Infocomm Media Development Authority have proposed a governance framework for generative AI to address the risks and concerns about the emerging technology

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    APAC leaders expect tech disruption to accelerate

    Nearly two-thirds of C-suite leaders in the region expect the pace of technology disruption to accelerate further in 2024, driven by advancements in generative AI

  • January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

    Datacentre operators form APAC industry group

    The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association will advocate for policies to drive the security and resiliency of datacentres and minimise environmental impact, among other goals

  • January 03, 2024 03 Jan'24

    Fighting money laundering with AI

    Mike Foster, CEO of SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal, talks up how AI can be used to fight financial crime and how the company’s technology can augment existing AML investments

  • January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

    Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI

    Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing

  • December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

    Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023

    Organisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI

  • December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

    Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategy

    Zoom’s federated approach towards generative AI allows it to use a combination of models that are most suitable for the task on hand while lowering costs for itself and customers

  • December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

    How threat intelligence is applied in DNS security

    Infoblox’s director of security architecture explains how the company leverages its threat intelligence capabilities to help organisations stay ahead of DNS security threats

  • December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

    Alibaba debuts LLMs for Southeast Asia

    Alibaba’s SeaLLMs are built to address the linguistic diversity and nuances in Southeast Asia, enabling businesses to deploy localised chatbots and translation applications

  • December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

    Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journey

    The Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS

  • December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

    Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024

    Generative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024

  • December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

    How Proofpoint is helping to mitigate AI security threats

    Proofpoint is offering monitoring tools to prevent leakage of sensitive information in generative AI models and other capabilities to mitigate AI mediated attacks