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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

    Equinix to open new datacentre in Indonesia

    Equinix’s new facility in Indonesia follows a slew of datacentre builds that have been sprouting up in Jakarta to cater to the country’s growing digital economy

  • October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

    India telcos chart revenue growth with cloud and OTT services

    Telcos in India are eyeing new revenue streams from cloud and content services, but whether they can successfully monetise the offerings remains to be seen

  • October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

    Inside Dell Technologies’ zero-trust approach

    Dell Technologies’ zero-trust reference model starts with defining business controls and having a central control plane that manages all the security aspects of an organisation’s infrastructure

  • October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

    Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play

    Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

  • September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

    How Endowus is leveraging Kafka and microservices

    The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times

  • September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

    Optus breach casts spotlight on cyber resilience

    The massive data breach that affected more than 10 million Optus customers has cast the spotlight on API security and other factors that contribute to the cyber resilience of organisations in Australia

  • September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

    EnterpriseDB rides on PostgreSQL momentum in APAC

    The open-source database supplier has seen more enterprises in the region replacing their Oracle databases with Postgres to support their digital transformation initiatives

  • September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

    How AWS is tapping the groundswell in cloud adoption

    Phil Davis, managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific and Japan, talks up the company’s growth strategy and how it is retaining customers amid rivals nipping at its heels

  • September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

    Inside SolarWinds’ observability playbook

    SolarWinds’ CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna talks up the company’s observability playbook and offers a glimpse into its technology roadmap

  • September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

    ANZ organisations using antiquated backup and recovery systems

    Nearly half of ANZ organisations are still using backup and recovery systems from over a decade ago, hampering their ability to protect their data assets and recover from ransomware attacks

  • September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

    India ramps up on AI amid talent and scalability challenges

    Indian organisations are speeding up deployments of AI across multiple sectors, but legacy systems, siloed data and a shortage of AI-specific talent will stand in the way of greater adoption

  • September 19, 2022 19 Sep'22

    How Mondelez is driving change with tech

    From empowering citizen developers to deploying drones to monitor the health of cocoa trees, Mondelez has been firing on all cylinders to disrupt the old ways of doing things

  • September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

    How an architecture graduate became a coder

    Back-end engineer Yang Lyu couldn’t find a job as an architect after graduation and ended up as a software developer after discovering her flair for coding

  • September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

    Airtel to deploy edge computing platform

    Bharti Airtel will deploy its multi-access edge compute platform across India to support edge computing applications in manufacturing and other industries, as India gears up for 5G

  • September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

    How graph technology is making a dent in the database market

    Graph databases are making a splash in the database market, with specialist, multimodal and cloud database suppliers jostling for a slice of the pie

  • September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

    Singtel and Intel team up on 5G

    Singtel and Intel have started an incubation programme to spearhead the development of enterprise 5G applications in areas including content delivery and video analytics

  • September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

    India’s wake-up call on health data privacy

    Health app developers and industry watchers in India are keeping an eye on data privacy following the reversal of the Roe vs Wade ruling in the US

  • September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

    Digital identity is key to coping with surge in air travel

    The International Air Transport Association’s One ID digital identity initiative will pave the way for seamless air travel from curb to gate and help airports cope with growing passenger traffic

  • September 06, 2022 06 Sep'22

    How the Australian Red Cross coped with a donation surge

    The Australian Red Cross adopted Boomi’s integration platform to manage the surge in donations in response to the floods in New South Wales and Queensland earlier this year

  • September 05, 2022 05 Sep'22

    VMware doubles down on cloud in ASEAN

    Paul Simos, VMware’s managing director and vice-president for Southeast Asia and Korea, dives deeper into the company’s cloud strategy for the region

  • August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

    Singapore to expand 5G coverage to seaport

    The maritime hub will be testing the use of 5G in a range of maritime operations, including remote pilotage of vessels and drone delivery of components to ships

  • August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

    VMware CEO: Broadcom acquisition is on track

    Raghu Raghuram claims VMware customers are getting more comfortable with the Broadcom acquisition while employees are ‘more or less focused’ on the job at hand

  • August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

    VMware beefs up Tanzu portfolio, adds OpenShift support

    The Tanzu Application Platform will include support for Red Hat OpenShift, air-gapped installations and other capabilities to improve developer productivity and code security

  • August 29, 2022 29 Aug'22

    Thinxtra teams up with Hong Kong’s LBS on smart hygiene

    Australia’s Thinxtra will supply its battery-powered IoT devices to monitor hygiene and environmental conditions in residential and commercial venues in Hong Kong

  • August 28, 2022 28 Aug'22

    Apple to make iPhone 14 in India

    Tech giant Apple is ramping up iPhone production in India through contract manufacturer Foxconn in a move that will benefit local consumers and the country’s burgeoning manufacturing industry

  • August 26, 2022 26 Aug'22

    Making her mark in financial technology

    Archana Manjunatha’s career in financial technology took her to the trading floors in India, where she learned the ropes of futures and options trading and the back offices of some of the world’s largest banks

  • August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

    Dell’s deep learning model to support coral reef conservation

    Dell Technologies has developed a deep learning model to speed up labelling and analysis of images of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in move to support coral reef conservation

  • August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

    Alibaba Cloud unveils RISC-V chip development platform

    The Wujian 600 chip development platform will help developers build systems-on-chip to support edge applications such as home robots, medical imaging and video conferencing

  • August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

    Google Cloud and Singapore government team up on AI

    Singapore’s National AI office will tap Google Cloud’s expertise in artificial intelligence to build artificial intelligence applications and train public sector officers on AI

  • August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

    How a female coder rose through the ranks in tech

    Padmaja Kota started her career as a software engineer before picking up product development and rising through the ranks to become an engineering leader at a cloud-based software company

  • August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

    Inside Singapore’s national digital identity journey

    Singapore’s national digital identity system has evolved from providing single sign-on to e-government services to pandemic-related and digital document capabilities in recent years

  • August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

    Indian semiconductor component market to hit $300bn by 2026

    India’s semiconductor component market will see cumulative revenues climb to $300bn by 2026, amid growing demand for mobile devices and industrial products

  • August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

    How BE Switchcraft is using RFID to streamline manufacturing

    The Australian switchboard manufacturer has rolled out a radio frequency identification system to track production jobs and streamline manufacturing processes

  • August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

    Lawyers and journalists sue CIA and Mike Pompeo over Assange surveillance claims

    CIA and its former director sued over allegations that they authorised unlawful spying on US citizens when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

  • August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

    Major APAC economies to lose 63 million jobs to automation

    Workers in India, China, South Korea, Australia and Japan are more at risk of losing their jobs to automation, despite the creation of new jobs in the green economy and ICT industry

  • August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

    How a young developer cut her teeth in coding

    Xenia Kim’s knack for solving problems and fixing software bugs eventually landed her a career in software development

  • August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

    How critical infrastructure operators can secure OT data

    Cohesity’s CISO discusses the challenges of securing data in operational technology systems and what can be done to mitigate security threats

  • August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

    Google Cloud to open three new cloud regions in APAC

    New Google Cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will enable local organisations to maintain low latency and meet data residency requirements

  • August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

    Inside Bukalapak’s cloud strategy

    Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak’s multicloud strategy, underpinned by the use of microservices and DevOps, has enabled it to meet the diverse needs of its users while addressing business requirements

  • August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

    Shipyard workers don smart glasses in 5G testbed

    Shipyard workers at Singapore’s Keppel Offshore and Marine can view work instructions on their smart glasses, pull out real-time data about their equipment and receive remote guidance in a range of operational tasks