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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

• 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

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  HammondCare takes procurement to the cloud

  The Australian health and aged care provider migrated its procurement and invoicing systems to the cloud in just six months to improve efficiency and security

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  FBI planned a sting against An0m cryptophone users over drinks with Australian investigators

  Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with the idea over drinks: build a cryptophone network with a built-in backdoor and sell it to crime gangs around the world

• 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