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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • 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

  • June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

    Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI

    At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents

  • June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

    Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

    The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery

  • June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

    Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption

    Many generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data

  • June 15, 2025 15 Jun'25

    Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot

    The company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours

  • June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

    Innovation culture is in our DNA, says Alibaba chairman

    Alibaba chair Joe Tsai on why the company is open sourcing its large language model, how it dealt with the DeepSeek crisis, and plans for the future

  • June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

    Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative

    The AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities

  • June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

    AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation

    At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges

  • June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

    How breaking things builds resilient systems

    To prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems through chaos engineering practices

  • June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

    Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era

    Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference

  • June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

    Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

    From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China

  • June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

    CISOs must translate cyber threats into business risk

    To manage risk effectively and secure board-level buy-in, CISOs must stop talking about technology and start speaking the language of business, according to a senior Check Point executive

  • June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

    FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store

    The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet

  • June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

    How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps

    GitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response

  • June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

    Open source adoption faces reality checks

    Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges

  • June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

    SailPoint charts course for AI-driven identity security

    SailPoint is driving the use of agentic AI in identity security with its Harbor Pilot offering while preparing to help enterprises govern and secure AI agents

  • June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

    How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI

    Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach

  • May 30, 2025 30 May'25

    Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy

    Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud

  • May 28, 2025 28 May'25

    ANZ firms spending more on data management

    Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds

  • May 28, 2025 28 May'25

    Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers

    Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps

  • May 26, 2025 26 May'25

    Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future

    With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors

  • May 26, 2025 26 May'25

    Gprnt platform to ease sustainability reporting

    Singapore businesses can now automatically generate basic sustainability reports free of charge using Gprnt, a platform aimed at simplifying reporting and unlocking green financing

  • May 23, 2025 23 May'25

    Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI

    Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals

  • May 22, 2025 22 May'25

    How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt

    Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades

  • May 22, 2025 22 May'25

    Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands

    As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI

  • May 21, 2025 21 May'25

    Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum

    Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week