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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

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
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