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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

    Australia names ‘strategic’ datacentre operators

    Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency certifies Macquarie Telecom, Canberra Data Centres and Australian Data Centres as strategic operators for hosting government data

  • June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

    How Ubisoft is embracing the cloud

    Game developer Ubisoft has been tapping cloud computing to overcome the constraints of game development and create gaming experiences that live on for years to come

  • June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

    Australian organisations face heightened cyber attacks

    Nearly three in four Australian organisations experienced cyber attacks that largely resulted from a growing remote workforce in 2020

  • June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

    FBI arrests distributors accused of selling An0m encrypted phones to crime groups

    Working with overseas law enforcement, the FBI has arrested eight people and named a further 13 accused of distributing An0m phones to organised crime groups

  • June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

    Alibaba Cloud sets foot in the Philippines

    Alibaba Cloud will open its first datacentre in the Philippines by the end of this year ahead of global rivals, as it expands its footprint in Southeast Asia

  • June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

    India’s public cloud spending on a roll

    Software as a service made up the lion’s share of overall public cloud spending in India last year, followed by cloud-based infrastructure and platforms as organisations look to build digital agility amid the pandemic

  • June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

    Tencent Cloud grows APAC footprint

    Tencent Cloud has launched new tier-three datacentres in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo as it ramps up investments to capitalise on the region’s burgeoning cloud market

  • June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

    Oracle debuts low-cost Arm compute instances

    Oracle is offering Arm instances powered by Ampere’s Altra processors at one cent per core hour as enterprises look to deploy more Arm-based workloads

  • June 01, 2021 01 Jun'21

    Why a cloud operating model matters

    Successful cloud adoption requires organisations to go beyond tools and techniques to map out a cloud operating model, says consulting firm Contino

  • May 31, 2021 31 May'21

    Great Eastern doubles down on data analytics

    Singapore insurer Great Eastern has started a centre of excellence to drive adoption of data analytics and hone its capabilities in data governance and data engineering

  • May 27, 2021 27 May'21

    Singapore deploys drones to monitor reservoir water quality

    Singapore’s national water agency PUB is deploying autonomous drones at six reservoirs to monitor water quality and other activities to improve operational efficiency

  • May 27, 2021 27 May'21

    Veeam bolsters portfolio to cover emerging workloads

    The groundswell in containerisation and open-source hypervisors is behind Veeam’s recent move to enable backup and recovery of emerging workloads

  • May 24, 2021 24 May'21

    Melbourne taps AI to ease traffic congestion

    University of Melbourne has teamed up with public and private sector organisations to build an AI application that can predict traffic congestion up to three hours ahead

  • May 24, 2021 24 May'21

    Why the security stack needs to move to the edge

    Akamai’s chief technology officer Robert Blumofe makes the case for a decentralised security model to address cyber threats that are emanating from the network edge

  • May 21, 2021 21 May'21

    Alibaba taps machine learning to digitise Chinese classics

    Alibaba’s research arm Damo Academy has developed a machine learning model to convert scanned pages of ancient Chinese classics into text

  • May 19, 2021 19 May'21

    Flexxon bakes AI into SSDs to fight unknown threats

    Singapore-based Flexxon has developed a solid-state drive that uses artificial intelligence to fend off malware and other unknown threats

  • May 18, 2021 18 May'21

    Australian budget lends support to digital economy

    Australia’s A$1.2bn Digital Economy Strategy ticks most of the right boxes, but some industry experts say areas such as broadband infrastructure and artificial intelligence are still underfunded

  • May 17, 2021 17 May'21

    How M1 is striving to be a digital telco

    Singapore’s M1 is dialling up its digital chops by monetising its data, building more personalised services for subscribers, and going beyond connectivity as it evolves into a digital telco

  • May 12, 2021 12 May'21

    How a cloud engineer at DBS Bank charted his career

    A cloud engineering leader at DBS Bank offers a glimpse into the tasks and challenges of a cloud professional and how his team is organised to support the bank’s public and private cloud infrastructure

  • May 11, 2021 11 May'21

    IBM doubles down on AI and hybrid cloud

    IBM is beefing up its core technology capabilities in artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud to speed up application modernisation and improve AI adoption

  • May 07, 2021 07 May'21

    Ransomware, supply chain attacks show no sign of abating

    Security experts at Black Hat Asia 2021 discuss the state of ransomware and supply chain attacks, two of the most common attack vectors that offer high returns for threat actors

  • May 06, 2021 06 May'21

    Wipro’s AI platform to improve vaccine safety

    Wipro is partnering a stem cell technology firm on the use of its Holmes artificial intelligence platform to help researchers ascertain the safety and potency of vaccines

  • May 05, 2021 05 May'21

    Executive interview: Juergen Mueller on SAP’s tech strategy

    SAP CTO Juergen Mueller offers a glimpse into the company’s thinking around delivering business applications as microservices, among other areas and updates in its technology strategy

  • May 04, 2021 04 May'21

    How Transport for NSW is tapping machine learning

    Transport agency in New South Wales taps machine learning to restore public confidence in the state’s transportation network amid the pandemic

  • April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

    Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

    Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

  • April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

    Red Hat eyes edge computing workloads

    Open-source juggernaut has enriched its enterprise Linux and OpenShift offerings to support edge computing workloads better

  • April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

    UnitingCare Queensland hit by cyber attack

    Healthcare service provider UnitingCare Queensland was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack that crippled several IT systems

  • April 26, 2021 26 Apr'21

    How Toffs is seizing Asia’s CDN market

    Toffs Technologies is eyeing second- and third-tier cities in Asia as it bolsters its infrastructure and experiments with the use of home networks as content delivery networks

  • April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

    Australia and India team up on critical technology

    The first three projects under a joint research grant programme will focus on developing ethical and regulatory frameworks for quantum computing, AI and 5G

  • April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

    How AWS is supporting Asia’s battle with Covid-19

    Public sector organisations and startups across the region have been tapping AWS cloud services to speed up and enable a range of pandemic-related initiatives

  • April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

    Microsoft to open Malaysia cloud region

    Microsoft’s new cloud region located in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area is part of a broader move to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

  • April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

    Informatica streamlines APAC operations amid growing cloud business

    Informatica has consolidated its operations in four key Asia-Pacific markets in a move that will enable it to better meet the demand for cloud-based data management software

  • April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

    Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC

    The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey

  • April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

    Tencent Cloud opens Indonesia datacentre

    Tencent’s Indonesian datacentre is expected to reduce network latency for local enterprises while providing backbone access for Indonesian and global internet service providers

  • April 11, 2021 11 Apr'21

    Executive interview: Unleashing blockchain’s potential

    Labrys founder and CEO Lachlan Feeney offers his observations about blockchain adoption in Australia, and what his firm is doing to help organisations unleash the full potential of the technology

  • April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

    Digital Realty expands Singapore footprint

    Digital Realty opens its third and largest datacentre in Singapore to meet the needs of local and multinational companies that are looking to deploy critical infrastructure and scale their digital business

  • April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

    VMware to ease hybrid cloud deployments

    VMware is combining VMware Cloud Foundation and its Tanzu portfolio into a single software stack to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployment and management

  • April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

    Bank BJB Syariah taps DevOps

    Indonesia’s Bank Jabar Banten Syariah is adopting DevOps and microservices to speed up delivery of applications

  • April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21

    How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

    Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments

  • April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

    ASEAN enterprises face hurdles in digital transformation

    Southeast Asian firms know what it takes to transform digitally, but they are not as adaptable as they would like to be, a survey has found