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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

    Open source security and sustainability remain unsolved problem

    While software bills of materials offer some transparency over software components, they don’t solve the imbalance between corporate consumption of open source software and the lack of investment in its security and health

  • September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

    Rimini Street CEO sounds death knell on ERP software

    Believing monolithic ERP applications will become obsolete in a decade, Seth Ravin is positioning Rimini Street to help enterprises transition to agentic ERP processes

  • September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

    PCI council eyes wider data protection role beyond payments

    Hailed as the gold standard for securing credit card information, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) could be extended to protect other kinds of data following industry feedback

  • September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

    AI boom to push Australian IT spending past A$172bn

    Australian IT spending is set to grow by 8.9% in 2026, driven by growing investments in artificial intelligence, datacentre systems and cloud, according to Gartner

  • September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

    How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

    The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

  • September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

    Fastly CEO plots course through AI and security

    Chief exec Kip Compton explains how Fastly’s unified platform is solving the web’s biggest challenges, from content scrapping by AI bots to distributed denial-of-service attacks

  • September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

    OpenAI targets India with datacentre push

    The AI firm is planning to open a one-gigawatt datacentre in India, which could reduce latency, ensure regulatory compliance and give it an edge over hyperscalers

  • September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

    AWS goes live in New Zealand

    The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, comprising three availability zones and powered by renewable energy, will enable organisations to store sensitive data in the country

  • September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

    JFrog extends DevSecOps playbook to AI governance

    The software security specialist is leveraging its capabilities in DevSecOps to address security, data provenance and bias in AI models

  • August 31, 2025 31 Aug'25

    Google Cloud brings on-premise Gemini AI to Singapore

    Move allows government agencies and regulated industries to run Google’s most powerful artificial intelligence models in their own datacentres, directly addressing data security and residency requirements to fuel the nation’s AI ambitions

  • August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

    FairPrice taps Google Cloud to build agentic AI workforce

    Singapore’s largest retailer is deploying a suite of agentic AI applications built on Google’s Gemini, Vertex AI and Agentspace to transform its customer experience and internal workflows

  • August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

    Broadcom bundles private AI into VCF, adds security automation

    At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled an integrated private cloud stack with VMware Private AI now included in VCF subscriptions, alongside cyber security services and support for cloud-native object storage

  • August 25, 2025 25 Aug'25

    How to secure the identity perimeter and prepare for AI agents

    Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand explains why identity has become the critical security battleground, how decentralised credentials will reduce data breach risks, and why AI agents will need their own identities to be trusted

  • August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

    Reserve Bank of India proposes framework for AI adoption in India’s finance sector

    India’s central bank has proposed a framework to guide artificial intelligence adoption in the financial sector, along with recommendations to build shared infrastructure, implement safeguards and promote financial inclusion

  • August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

    Dell builds on $50m Singapore investment with new AI hub

    Dell Technologies has opened an AI innovation hub to speed artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and upskill 10,000 students and mid-career professionals in Singapore

  • August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

    Without a data strategy, AI will just scale your chaos

    Snowflake’s chief data analytics officer, Anahita Tafvizi, explains why a data strategy focused on governance, consistency and accuracy is the only way to build artificial intelligence that users will trust

  • August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

    India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche

    India is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark

  • August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

    Singapore board directors to get cyber crisis training

    The Singapore Institute of Directors and Ensign InfoSecurity have launched a programme to equip 1,000 board leaders with the skills to navigate high-stakes decisions during a cyber crisis

  • August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

    Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform

    Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts

  • August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

    Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience

    Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience

  • 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