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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

    India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push

    The government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy

  • August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

    SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

    The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

  • August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

    SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI

    The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne

  • August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

    Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

    The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure

  • August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

    Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India

    Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs

  • August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

    Cloudera touts hybrid data platform to power enterprise AI boom

    At its Evolve APAC 2025 conference in Singapore, Cloudera promises to end the compromise between on-premise data control and public cloud convenience with its hybrid data platform

  • August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

    Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft

    The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities

  • August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

    Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel

    The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom

  • August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

    How Australian firms are using graph databases

    Banks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production

  • August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

    How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security

    Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security

  • August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

    Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector

    A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures

  • August 03, 2025 03 Aug'25

    NUS and Google team up on AI research centre

    The National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state

  • August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

    Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme

    Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents

  • July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

    Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25bn

    The deal marks Palo Alto Networks’ entry into the identity and access management space amid the growing need to secure human, machine and emerging AI agent identities

  • July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

    ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play

    The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market

  • July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

    Industry experts warn crypto infrastructure is ‘creaking’

    A report from experts at HSBC, Thales and InfoSec Global claims decades-old cryptographic systems are failing, putting businesses at risk from current vulnerabilities and the threat from quantum computing

  • July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

    Australian LEO satellite spending to hit A$664m in 2026

    Research shows spending will increase by 6.6% from 2025, as applications for IoT, infrastructure backhaul and direct-to-device connectivity push LEO services into the enterprise mainstream

  • July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

    Logicalis targets APAC’s mid-market with ‘GSI quality’ services

    The global technology service provider is banking on its ‘think global, act local’ strategy, a deep focus on application modernisation and security to differentiate itself in the region

  • July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

    Microsoft opens first Southeast Asia research lab

    Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore facility will pursue breakthroughs in domain-specific foundation models and agentic AI for sectors like healthcare and finance, aligning with the country’s AI strategy

  • July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

    Data resilience critical as ransomware attacks target backups

    With more threat actors targeting backup repositories to ensure a payday, Veeam urges organisations to treat data resilience as a competitive advantage, not just an insurance policy

  • July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

    ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy

    ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications

  • July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

    Colt targets crypto traders with low-latency connectivity

    Connectivity service aims to give digital asset traders and enterprises deploying AI applications a performance edge by connecting cloud regions faster than native backbones

  • July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

    ASEAN urged to seize 5G-AI opportunity

    A report warns the region could miss out on economic opportunities as the growing digital divide between ASEAN member states threatens to undermine its competitiveness

  • July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

    Singapore under ongoing cyber attack from APT group

    Nation-state actor UNC3886 is actively targeting Singapore’s critical national infrastructure in a sophisticated espionage and disruption campaign, with the country mounting a whole-of-government response

  • July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

    ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore

    The fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network

  • July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

    Hackbots biggest cloud security risk, slashing attack times to minutes

    With cyber criminals using automated tools to steal data in minutes, organisations must focus on runtime protection and automated responses to combat the rising threat from AI and misconfigured cloud assets

  • July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

    Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform

    As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO

  • July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

    Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

    The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share

  • July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

    AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

    As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president

  • July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

    AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications

  • July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

    CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

    Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation

  • July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

    Qantas details impact of data breach on 5.7 million customers

    Australian flag carrier begins notifying millions of individuals after a cyber attack on a call centre, confirming that while financial and passport details are safe, a significant volume of other personal information was compromised

  • July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

    Proofpoint bets on APAC growth amid spike in AI-driven threats

    With cyber attacks spiking in non-English-speaking markets such as Japan, the security firm is boosting its regional presence to combat a wave of AI-generated threats

  • July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

    Digital warfare is blurring civilian front lines

    Singapore’s defence cyber chief warns that the traditional lines between military conflict and civilian life are blurring, with adversaries now targeting civilian systems and using AI to put the threat landscape on steroids

  • July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

    Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

    The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters

  • July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

    How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

    The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages

  • July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

    Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

    Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms

  • July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

    Qantas customer data exposed in contact centre breach

    Australian flag carrier is investigating significant data theft of personal information for up to six million customers after a third-party platform used by its call centre was compromised

  • July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

    Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

    To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive

  • June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

    How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

    Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing