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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  NUHS to tap edge supercomputing to crunch AI workloads

  Singapore’s National University Health System will tap edge supercomputing resources to train AI models in a range of healthcare-related AI applications by mid-2022

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  India’s IT spending to cross $100bn mark in 2022

  Led by software investments, the growth in IT spending comes as organisations in the subcontinent look to modernise their IT infrastructure and support a hybrid workforce

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  How Maxim’s Group is using Oracle Cloud

  The Hong Kong-based F&B operator is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its VMware workloads and datawarehouse to improve resilience and productivity

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  ICO warns facial recognition company Clearview AI it could face £17m fine over privacy breaches

  The UK’s information commissioner has issued a preliminary decision to fine Clearview over £17m for breaching UK data protection law and invited the company to make representations

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  Singapore telcos get more 5G spectrum

  Singtel, M1-StarHub and TPG will be getting 2.1GHz spectrum to support the growth of 5G services in the city-state

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Inside Informatica’s cloud journey

  Informatica’s chief product officer talks up the company’s journey back to the public market and where Asia-Pacific fits in its growth strategy

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud

  GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Medtronic ups ante in digital health

  Medtronic wants a slice of the burgeoning digital health market and is teaming up with startups and other organisations in Asia-Pacific’s healthcare ecosystem to raise its game

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: APAC enterprises invest in digital future

  Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in Asia-Pacific plan to increase their IT budgets next year in areas such as cloud computing and cyber security to secure their digital future

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Singapore ups ante in AI with sectoral programmes

  Singapore launches two national AI programmes to bolster adoption of AI by financial institutions and the public sector

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Oracle eyes startups with Singapore cloud region

  Oracle is targeting startups and going beyond its enterprise stronghold with its first cloud region in Southeast Asia

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  Splunk’s cloud shift is paying off in APAC

  Splunk’s Asia-Pacific business is growing faster than the rest of the company, but it’s not resting on its laurels

• November 05, 2021 05 Nov'21

  Inside Krungsri Bank’s open API journey

  Thailand’s Krungsri Bank has been harnessing open application programming interfaces to enable its partners to build new services in a strategy that has won over customers from rival banks

• November 03, 2021 03 Nov'21

  Adelaide healthcare network digitises manual processes

  The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has digitised manual processes in more than 20 speciality areas to improve patient experience and alleviate the workloads of frontline staff

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  Dell rolls out financing arm in Singapore

  Dell Financial Services will offer flexible and consumption-based payment options in local and regional markets as more enterprises consume and operate IT infrastructure via an as-a-service model

• November 01, 2021 01 Nov'21

  India’s tech workforce braces for hybrid work

  A Nasscom study reveals that India’s tech workers and their employers are planning to return to offices thrice a week, paving the way for hybrid work

• October 29, 2021 29 Oct'21

  How GitHub is driving secure software development

  GitHub’s first chief security officer offers a glimpse into the company’s efforts to help developers and organisations embrace secure software development practices

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  AWS to open cloud region in New Zealand

  Cloud giant will invest NZ$7.5bn in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the new Auckland cloud region

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Lacework expands into ANZ, eyes APAC market

  DevSecOps supplier Lacework’s expansion into Australia and New Zealand will pave the way for a broader move into the Asia-Pacific region

• October 25, 2021 25 Oct'21

  Singapore-developed chatbot to provide genetic counselling

  National University Cancer Institute, Singapore’s chatbot will kickstart the counselling process for patients who have a higher risk of contracting hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

• October 24, 2021 24 Oct'21

  The future of data analytics

  The rise of no-code and event-driven architectures are among the developments that will shape the future of data analytics, according to Tibco’s regional chief technology officer

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  APAC organisations warm to zero trust

  Two-thirds of APAC organisations have a zero-trust strategy even as they grapple with the lack of skills and other organisational challenges, study finds

• October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

  Alibaba Cloud to open datacentres in Thailand and South Korea

  Chinese cloud supplier is expanding its regional datacentre footprint to Thailand and South Korea in 2022 alongside technology investments that include a custom Arm-based server chip

• October 19, 2021 19 Oct'21

  VMware refines cross-cloud strategy

  VMware’s CTO Kit Colbert talks up the evolution of the company’s cross-cloud strategy and how it stands out from other suppliers eyeing the multicloud pie

• October 18, 2021 18 Oct'21

  Singapore pulls ahead with public sector 5G trials

  Singapore’s public sector organisations are testing the use of 5G connectivity to remotely operate an autonomous vehicle for road-sweeping, among other use cases

• October 17, 2021 17 Oct'21

  Graphcore opens Southeast Asia hub in Singapore

  The AI chipmaker is looking to expand its sales teams and hire more engineers to support customer deployments in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  HPE’s GreenLake strategy pays off in APAC

  HPE’s transition to an as-a-service company is paying off in Asia-Pacific where it witnessed one of the strongest quarters, thanks in part to rising demand for services

• October 11, 2021 11 Oct'21

  UnaBiz raises $25m in Series B funding

  Regional IoT tech supplier will use the funds to strengthen its foothold in key markets and develop new products and services

• October 11, 2021 11 Oct'21

  Malaysia’s highway authority improves DR capabilities

  The Malaysian Highway Authority is now more resilient against cyber attacks through a local disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering powered by Veeam software

• October 11, 2021 11 Oct'21

  Singapore refreshes cyber security strategy

  The city-state updates its national cyber security strategy to shore up the security of critical infrastructure and enterprises while growing its cyber security industry, among other goals

• October 08, 2021 08 Oct'21

  How Zoom is growing its APAC business

  Zoom is driving its growth in Asia-Pacific by embedding business processes into video communications, supporting the hybrid workplace and expanding its headcount in the region

• October 07, 2021 07 Oct'21

  How VMware is tackling the Indian market

  VMware is eyeing growing opportunities in India around cloud-native application development, remote work as well as 5G and edge computing, says VMware president Sumit Dhawan

• October 06, 2021 06 Oct'21

  Aetos to deploy Singtel MEC for security operations

  Security firm Aetos will use Singtel’s multi-access edge computing platform to run applications such as surveillance robots, drones and video analytics at its security command centre

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  Australian organisations lack maturity in responsible AI

  Most Australian organisations are still in the early stages of their responsible artificial intelligence efforts despite growing use of AI by businesses and consumers, study finds

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  How GYG Singapore moved to paperless contracts

  The Singapore franchisee of Mexican cuisine specialist Guzman y Gomez has turned to electronic agreements and digital signatures to ease the administrative burden on its HR team

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  NUS and Thales to develop quantum technologies

  The National University of Singapore and Thales have joined hands to test quantum technologies for commercial applications in security and sensing

• September 29, 2021 29 Sep'21

  AWS launches programme to advance health equity

  The $40m global health equity programme will fund projects that improve health outcomes for underserved communities

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  APAC IT spending to grow by 9.3% in 2021

  Organisations across the region will spend more on technologies such as AI and IoT this year, as part of their long-term investment plans to improve operational efficiency and customer service

• September 26, 2021 26 Sep'21

  What it takes to attract and retain women in cyber security

  The narrowing gender gap may be a cause for cheer, but more needs to be done to curb discrimination, and attract and retain women for cyber security roles in Asia-Pacific

• September 24, 2021 24 Sep'21

  How Australia punches above its weight in cyber security

  Australia is playing to its strengths in niche areas such as governance and deep tech to punch above its weight in the cyber security industry

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Stax to expand in New Zealand, Southeast Asia

  Australia’s homegrown cloud management platform is setting its sights on neighbouring markets amid growing cloud adoption across the region

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  DBS eyes AI and blockchain talent

  Singapore-based bank DBS is looking to hire 150 developers and engineers skilled in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain through its hackathon programme

• September 20, 2021 20 Sep'21

  ASEAN organisations face observability gap

  Organisations in Southeast Asia are grappling with a hodgepodge of observability tools and have some way to go before they can achieve full visibility over their technology stacks

• September 16, 2021 16 Sep'21

  NTT and Equinix lead APAC co-location market

  The two datacentre service providers are leading the pack in co-location services in the Asia-Pacific region thanks to their growing business from hyperscale cloud suppliers

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Australia and Singapore have higher incidences of insecure databases

  Five-year longitudinal study by Imperva shows the proportion of databases with at least one known vulnerability in Australia and Singapore are among the world’s highest

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  RPA adoption still in its infancy in Asia-Pacific

  While there have been successful deployments of robotic process automation in mature markets, adoption of the technology is largely in its infancy across Asia-Pacific, says a regional Blue Prism executive

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Portcast secures $3.2m, eyes global expansion

  Logistics startup Portcast will use its pre-Series A funding to expand globally and bolster its cloud-based service with prescriptive AI capabilities

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  APAC organisations must do more to harness analytics potential

  Organisations in the Asia-Pacific region still lack the necessary workforce and process capabilities that are required to realise the full benefits of data analytics initiatives, a study finds

• September 07, 2021 07 Sep'21

  OT security in APAC remains work in progress

  Two operational technology security experts shed light on the state of OT security in the region, and what’s being done to address skills, competency and organisational challenges

• September 06, 2021 06 Sep'21

  How NZ schools are tapping managed network services

  Using managed network services has freed up time and resources for New Zealand school teachers and alleviated the pressure and challenges of maintaining technology infrastructure

• September 02, 2021 02 Sep'21

  NUS researchers develop brain-inspired memory device

  A team of researchers led by the National University of Singapore have developed a brain-inspired molecular memristor that can be configured to perform a range of computing tasks

• August 29, 2021 29 Aug'21

  Mainland Chinese businesses lead tech adoption in APAC

  Chinese firms are more likely than others in Asia-Pacific to tap on artificial intelligence and business intelligence among other technologies to drive innovation

• August 24, 2021 24 Aug'21

  How Zendesk is gearing up for growth in APAC

  Zendesk has its eye on Japan and the enterprise segment while building up its partner ecosystem to grow its business in the Asia-Pacific region

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  Alibaba tops global AI challenge

  Alibaba’s AliceMind algorithm recorded a higher accuracy rate than humans in answering questions related to images in the global VQA challenge

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  How Australia’s Octopus Deploy is simplifying DevOps

  Brisbane-based startup Octopus Deploy recently secured $172.5m in venture funding to advance its goal of simplifying software deployments for DevOps teams

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  NAB partners AWS, global banks on open finance

  Australia’s NAB teams up with three other banks and AWS to run an open global finance challenge that will see participating teams prototype new digital banking services

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  Facebook develops Asia-Pacific, African subsea connectivity

  With the tasty title of Apricot, social media giant unveils role in project to develop ultra-fast connectivity under the sea in key Asian region, while it announces expansion of existing partnership to boost African sea network

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  How swarm learning is tearing down data silos

  Swarm learning makes it possible to perform machine learning on distributed data sources while conforming to data confidentiality requirements

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  How to get API deployments right

  Application programming interfaces are not the panacea for digital transformation and could even lead to escalating costs for problems that are better addressed through integration

• August 12, 2021 12 Aug'21

  Singapore’s NUHS kicks off holomedicine research

  Singapore neurosurgeons are testing the use of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset to locate brain tumours with higher precision and improve patient safety

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  BSO named first non-domestic global connectivity provider for Indian stock exchange

  Growing global infrastructure and connectivity provider BSO confirmed as one of the first official international approved connectivity partners to meet demand for trading at the National Stock Exchange of India International Exchange

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  New machine learning algorithm to detect quantum errors

  University of Sydney and quantum control startup Q-CTRL have developed a new way to reduce quantum computing errors using custom machine learning algorithms

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  How Grab is using Kafka in fraud detection

  Grab is using Apache Kafka in its fraud detection and prevention platform to ingest event streams from its mobile software development kits and client backends to pick up fraudulent activities

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Unit4 doubles down on APAC business

  Supplier of mid-market ERP systems Unit4 is investing in a research and development centre in Jakarta as part of efforts to win market share from established players

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Fred IT replaces paper prescriptions with QR codes

  Fred IT’s eRX Script Exchange is now used by 21,000 doctors and 95% of Australian pharmacies, delivering more than 11 million digital prescriptions by July 2021

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Panasas’s 10x saving bumps NetApp from HPC storage deployment

  University of Wollongong got 1.2PB for the cost of 100TB for HPC storage in its cryo-imaging institute. Scale-out NAS maker Panasas also brought life sciences expertise to bear

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Huawei courts Asian startups in cloud push

  Huawei will spend $100m over three years to grow the startup ecosystem in key markets as it eyes a bigger slice of Asia’s cloud market

• August 02, 2021 02 Aug'21

  Building supply chain resilience with cloud ERP

  Vallen Asia’s cloud enterprise resource planning system has enabled it to scale its operations across the region and made its supply chain operations more resilient amid the pandemic

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Technical debt is holding back innovation

  Technical debt is limiting seven in 10 companies in their capacity to innovate, according to a global study

• July 29, 2021 29 Jul'21

  Olympic Broadcasting Services taps cloud for content delivery

  Live footages of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are being supplied to broadcasters through the public cloud for the first time

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  APAC organisations can reduce carbon footprint with cloud

  Energy savings of nearly 80% can be achieved by running business applications in the cloud rather than on-premise infrastructure, study finds

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  How IBM is solving the data privacy problem

  IBM’s fully homomorphic encryption technology lets enterprises apply analytics and machine learning to encrypted data without compromising data privacy

• July 25, 2021 25 Jul'21

  Tokyo 2020 hit by data breach

  The user names and passwords of Tokyo 2020 ticket holders and event volunteers were reportedly compromised, but government official claims the data leak was not large

• July 23, 2021 23 Jul'21

  Can India become a global manufacturing hub?

  India can be a major player in the global manufacturing supply chain by shoring up IP protection and tapping opportunities in contract manufacturing and firmware design

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Beeinfotech PH opens telco-neutral datacentre in the Philippines

  Datacentre startup is touting carrier neutrality, bespoke services and cyber security capabilities to meet the growing demand for co-location services in the Philippines

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  How IoT and machine learning are automating agriculture

  A new generation of farmers is tapping the internet of things and machine learning to operate self-sustaining urban farms with minimal supervision

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Macquarie Data Centres to build Sydney North facility

  Macquarie Data Centres’ latest 32MW facility will come with a cyber security centre that monitors and manages cyber security events

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  More women in South Asia using mobile internet

  A GSMA study found that the gender gap is closing for mobile internet usage in South Asia, along with higher smartphone ownership fuelled by the falling cost of handsets and data

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Automation is key to digital transformation

  Automation will enable IT teams to focus on driving transformative projects instead of supporting tasks that can be automated, says UiPath CEO Daniel Dines

• July 12, 2021 12 Jul'21

  NSW department of education hit by cyber attack

  Australia’s New South Wales department of education takes some systems offline as a precautionary measure in response to a cyber attack last Thursday

• July 11, 2021 11 Jul'21

  Ransomware and botnets among top cyber threats in Singapore

  The city-state saw more ransomware threats and command-and-control servers hosted out of its highly connected network infrastructure last year, as threat actors capitalised on the pandemic

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Google Cloud ties up with AI Singapore on skills training

  Google Cloud is working with Singapore’s national AI programme to build up the country’s talent pool in machine learning and AI

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  UnaBiz makes foray into Japan

  The Singapore-based IoT technology provider has opened an office in Tokyo to tap the groundswell of IoT deployments in utilities and other sectors

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Ascendas India Trust to build datacentre near Mumbai

  New datacentre campus near Mumbai will deliver 90MW of power to host technology and cloud suppliers as well as large Indian companies in a fast-growing market

• July 02, 2021 02 Jul'21

  Cricket Australia’s replatforming of online services paid off during pandemic

  Cricket Australia was able to keep digital services up and running during a period of unprecedented customer demand

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  SAP claims ‘huge momentum’ for Rise in APAC

  A top SAP executive claims the region is leading the way in the ‘Rise with SAP’ cloud transformation programme which has been bolstered with modular cloud enterprise resource planning offerings

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Putting cloud repatriation into perspective

  Moving public cloud workloads back on-premise is among the decisions that organisations have to make as they straddle between public and private cloud environments

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Lazada rolls out public bug bounty programme

  Regional e-commerce giant Lazada is looking to uncover more vulnerabilities that could compromise data security in a public bug bounty programme that offers up to $10,000 per bounty

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  Reliance Jio teams up with Google on 5G and retail

  India’s biggest telco will use Google Cloud to manage its 5G network and grow its commerce business

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Sizing up Australia’s vibrant cloud market

  Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  DataStax eyes growth in APAC

  DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  GlobalFoundries to open new fab in Singapore

  US chip foundry GlobalFoundries is building a $4bn semiconductor fabrication plant in Singapore to expand its manufacturing capacity as chip demand surges worldwide

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Inside Macquarie Bank’s data transformation journey

  Australia’s Macquarie Bank has moved all its data and analytics to the cloud and is applying machine learning to detect fraud and improve customer experience

• June 21, 2021 21 Jun'21

  New lab to bolster Singapore’s Industry 4.0 capabilities

  Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research teams up with local manufacturing software company to make Industry 4.0 capabilities more accessible to manufacturers

• June 21, 2021 21 Jun'21

  Indian telcos start 5G trials, mass adoption remains elusive

  Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have started 5G trials in different cities, but mass adoption is still some way off due to high spectrum and infrastructure costs

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  UnitingCare Queensland restores IT systems after cyber attack

  Australian healthcare service provider has restored key corporate systems and integrations between applications following a cyber attack earlier this year

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Axiata doubles down on Google Cloud

  The regional telecoms group plans to use Google Cloud’s compute, storage and networking services across the six telcos under its fold

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Singapore universities to develop cooling solutions for tropical datacentres

  The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University will research on cooling technologies that help to lower the power consumption and carbon footprint of topical datacentres

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Databricks taps groundswell in lakehouse adoption

  Databricks has been expanding its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region amid growing interest among traditional enterprises and digital native companies in the data lakehouse architecture

• June 15, 2021 15 Jun'21

  How healthcare organisations are tapping data analytics

  Healthcare providers are harnessing data analytics to improve clinical and operational outcomes even as they continue to face challenges in data aggregation and data protection