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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • May 07, 2021 07 May'21

    Ransomware, supply chain attacks show no sign of abating

    Security experts at Black Hat Asia 2021 discuss the state of ransomware and supply chain attacks, two of the most common attack vectors that offer high returns for threat actors

  • May 05, 2021 05 May'21

    Executive interview: Juergen Mueller on SAP’s tech strategy

    SAP CTO Juergen Mueller offers a glimpse into the company’s thinking around delivering business applications as microservices, among other areas and updates in its technology strategy

  • April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

    Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

    Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

  • April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

    Red Hat eyes edge computing workloads

    Open-source juggernaut has enriched its enterprise Linux and OpenShift offerings to support edge computing workloads better

  • April 26, 2021 26 Apr'21

    How Toffs is seizing Asia’s CDN market

    Toffs Technologies is eyeing second- and third-tier cities in Asia as it bolsters its infrastructure and experiments with the use of home networks as content delivery networks

  • April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

    How AWS is supporting Asia’s battle with Covid-19

    Public sector organisations and startups across the region have been tapping AWS cloud services to speed up and enable a range of pandemic-related initiatives

  • April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

    Microsoft to open Malaysia cloud region

    Microsoft’s new cloud region located in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area is part of a broader move to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

  • April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

    Informatica streamlines APAC operations amid growing cloud business

    Informatica has consolidated its operations in four key Asia-Pacific markets in a move that will enable it to better meet the demand for cloud-based data management software

  • April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

    Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC

    The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey

  • April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

    Tencent Cloud opens Indonesia datacentre

    Tencent’s Indonesian datacentre is expected to reduce network latency for local enterprises while providing backbone access for Indonesian and global internet service providers

  • April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

    Digital Realty expands Singapore footprint

    Digital Realty opens its third and largest datacentre in Singapore to meet the needs of local and multinational companies that are looking to deploy critical infrastructure and scale their digital business

  • April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

    VMware to ease hybrid cloud deployments

    VMware is combining VMware Cloud Foundation and its Tanzu portfolio into a single software stack to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployment and management

  • April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

    Bank BJB Syariah taps DevOps

    Indonesia’s Bank Jabar Banten Syariah is adopting DevOps and microservices to speed up delivery of applications

  • April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21

    How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

    Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments

  • April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

    ASEAN enterprises face hurdles in digital transformation

    Southeast Asian firms know what it takes to transform digitally, but they are not as adaptable as they would like to be, a survey has found

  • March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

    Bitfrost subsea cable to boost APAC connectivity

    A subsea cable system linking Southeast Asia and North America will be built by 2024 to meet the growing demand for bandwidth in the Asia-Pacific region

  • March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

    Executive interview: Tearing down data silos

    Alteryx’s senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific addresses some misconceptions about data analytics and what the company is doing to stake a bigger claim on the market

  • March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

    CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders

    The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues

  • March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

    CW Innovation Awards: How DBS is transforming credit processes

    DBS Bank’s credit architecture programme has digitised and reimagined credit processes through a unified platform that has improved the productivity and efficiency of its credit teams

  • March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

    CW Innovation Awards: Sime Darby ups ante in service management

    Sime Darby Industrial’s inService Suite has returned more than 100,000 hours to the company in a digitisation initiative that has improved efficiency and customer engagement

  • March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

    CW Innovation Awards: SIA taps blockchain for loyalty app

    Singapore Airlines, winner of the transportation category in this year’s CW Innovation Awards APAC, expands its blockchain-based digital wallet into a broader digital lifestyle platform

  • March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

    NUHS taps RPA in Covid-19 swab tests

    Singapore’s National University Health System deploys RPA bots to automate patient registration during Covid-19 swab tests as part of broader efforts to improve efficiency

  • March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

    Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge

    Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications

  • March 19, 2021 19 Mar'21

    AWS rolls out clean energy initiative in Singapore

    62MW solar project expected to generate 80,000MWh of clean energy a year, enough to power more than 10,000 homes

  • March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

    ST Engineering teams up with Google Cloud

    Singapore’s ST Engineering and Google Cloud will explore offering secure cloud services for organisations in regulated industries

  • March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

    CW Innovation Awards: Fighting fake Covid-19 vaccines with blockchain

    A blockchain-based system developed by Singapore-based Zuellig Pharma can help governments and healthcare providers weed out fake vaccines and manage vaccine distribution and administration

  • March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

    APAC cloud spending up by over 38% in 2020

    Public cloud infrastructure services made up the lion’s share of cloud spending last year as APAC organisations strive to modernise their IT infrastructure amid the pandemic, study finds

  • March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

    Google Cloud makes inroads in Southeast Asia

    Number three public cloud supplier has made inroads into Southeast Asian enterprises such as Indonesia’s Salim Group and is assessing opportunities for new cloud regions

  • March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

    Singapore Airlines the latest victim of supply chain attack

    A restricted set of data of over 580,000 frequent flyer members of Singapore Airlines was exposed in a supply chain attack against Sita’s passenger service system

  • March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

    APAC leads in open source adoption

    APAC organisations are using open source software to modernise their infrastructure and develop containerised applications, though security concerns linger on

  • March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

    Veritas looks beyond NetBackup for growth in ASEAN

    Veritas has seen increased demand for its availability tools as it looks to address backup and recovery requirements from cloud, database and VMware workloads

  • March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

    IBM eyes hybrid cloud opportunity in ASEAN

    The hybrid cloud message is resonating among Southeast Asian enterprises that are looking to modernise their applications and systems, says IBM’s general manager for the region

  • March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

    How SAP is riding the rising tide of cloud

    SAP’s newly minted president for Asia-Pacific and Japan talks up the company’s cloud traction and what is being done to ease the transition to S/4 Hana

  • February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

    Huawei opens developer lab in Singapore

    Huawei’s Digix lab will provide software development resources to those who are building mobile apps for Huawei’s mobile platform

  • February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

    How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics

    Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed

  • February 21, 2021 21 Feb'21

    Dell to invest $50m in Singapore innovation hub

    Dell Technologies’ global innovation hub will house a research and development lab and other facilities to drive development and adoption of emerging technologies

  • February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

    Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy

    Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations

  • February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

    Executive interview: Tapping APAC’s storage potential

    Lenovo’s head of storage in Asia-Pacific singles out the region’s market opportunities and predicts that the healthcare sector will go full-fledged with flash storage in the next year

  • February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

    Singtel falls prey to supply chain attack

    The Singapore telco reveals that its Accellion file sharing system was illegally hacked in a supply chain attack

  • February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

    Big data platform to speed up DNA analysis

    Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre has developed a big data platform that can analyse DNA data up to 16 times faster than current techniques

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