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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Australian government IT spending to grow 8.4% in 2023

  The Australian government will increasingly look to digital investments, particularly automation, to drive efficiency opportunities and improve service delivery, according to Gartner

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments

  In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure

• May 21, 2023 21 May'23

  AI-powered robot starts sorting Melbourne’s recyclables

  Melbourne’s APR Kerbside has been using an AI-powered robot to pick up used Tetra Pak beverage cartons that can be turned into poly-coated boards

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Navigating artificial intelligence: Red flags to watch out for

  Lou Steinberg, founder of cyber security research lab CTM Insights, flags up the risks of the growing use of AI, and what organisations can do to tame the technology for good

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Pentera ups ante in penetration testing

  The Israeli startup, which expanded to the APAC region last year, scans for vulnerabilities and emulates cyber attacks through its automated security validation platform

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  APAC digital leaders score wins in innovation awards

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation

  The company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: Zuellig Pharma dispenses healthcare insights with data platform

  The regional pharmaceutical giant’s business intelligence-as-a-service offering is touted to plug data gaps and has helped one pharmaceutical client improve customer loyalty

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: SensorFlow reaps returns with re-architecture

  Smart building management specialist SensorFlow re-architected its entire platform to reduce cost, complexity and implement a real-time business intelligence dashboard for its customers

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh

  The state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  How Splunk is driving security automation

  Splunk’s head of security in APAC talks up the company’s efforts to ease the workloads of security analysts amid lower adoption of security automation and analytics in the region

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  Microsoft, Singtel debut Azure public MEC in Singapore

  Azure public multi-access edge compute service will let enterprises deploy low-latency workloads and leverage public cloud services in edge locations

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Australia to shore up cyber and digital capabilities in Budget 2023

  Australia is spending more than A$2bn to strengthen cyber resilience, improve digital government services and fuel AI adoption, among other areas, in its latest budget

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks

  Applying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

  Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Inside BlackBerry’s cyber security playbook

  BlackBerry’s president of cyber security discusses the company’s cyber security strategy and what it is doing to deliver an integrated set of capabilities for enterprises

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  M1 doubles down on maritime 5G

  Seafarers will be able to access telemedicine services while out at sea, among other maritime 5G applications M1 is rolling out in Singapore’s waters

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  How non-fungible tokens can be used to manage health data

  Non-fungible tokens will give patients more ownership and control over their health data and improve its transparency in healthcare research, according to SingHealth clinicians

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  How organisations can succeed with zero trust

  By starting small, taking a long-term view and prioritising the most critical assets in their zero-trust implementations, organisations will be able to reap returns from their investments in the security paradigm

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Tech spending in India to grow by 9.6% in 2023

  Digital initiatives in the public sector along with investments in telecoms and other areas are expected to spur technology spending in India this year

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Okta integrates with Singapore’s national digital ID system

  The integration with Singpass will let Okta customers authenticate consumers using Singapore’s national digital ID system and is expected to expand the company’s reach in regulated industries

• April 10, 2023 10 Apr'23

  How India’s Cropin is tapping the groundswell in agritech

  Cropin, one of the first movers in agriculture technology, has built an industry cloud platform that is now used by the likes of PepsiCo to maximise crop yields

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Oracle to open second cloud region in Singapore

  The move comes less than two years after Oracle opened its first cloud region in Singapore which is already supporting over 1,000 customers across Southeast Asia

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Australia’s media and telecoms sector saw most data breaches in 2022

  The media and telecoms industry accounted for the bulk of stolen credentials in Australia in 2022, underscoring the need to shore up the country’s cyber security posture

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  CIO interview: Carter Busse, CIO, Workato

  Workato CIO Carter Busse talks up the company’s approach towards automation and its efforts to drive the technology across its business

• March 31, 2023 31 Mar'23

  How Australian organisations can plug the cloud skills gap

  Organisations will need to acquire a broader set of skills and invest in reskilling and employee experience to attract and retain cloud talent

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Naver Cloud teams up with Korean tourism body

  The South Korean hyperscaler has teamed up with the Korea Tourism Organisation to improve visitor experience using its cloud capabilities

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Colt expands Equinix on-demand partnership in Singapore, Hong Kong

  Digital infrastructure companies expand longstanding on-demand partnership in key Asian territories with software-driven connectivity

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  How organisations can weaponise data privacy

  Organisations should turn data privacy into a competitive advantage and look beyond regulatory compliance to build a privacy programme that aligns with business targets, says Gartner

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Inside Group-IB’s cyber security playbook

  A focus on threat intelligence, fraud protection and its work with Interpol has enabled Group-IB to compete against bigger rivals in the market

• March 27, 2023 27 Mar'23

  Most Singapore organisations operate distributed IT infrastructure

  More than two-thirds of organisations in Singapore use a mix of private and public clouds as well as on-premise and hosted datacentres, even as they face challenges with data management and complexity

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  Podium taps ChatGPT for reputation management

  The customer interaction and payment specialist with operations in Australia has integrated ChatGPT into its platform to help local businesses respond to customer reviews on social media

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  OVHcloud opens India datacentre

  The French cloud service provider has opened its first datacentre in India that will provide Indian businesses with access to local compute and storage capabilities

• March 21, 2023 21 Mar'23

  How Mimecast thinks differently about email security

  Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer believes the company’s comprehensive approach towards email security has enabled it to remain relevant to customers for two decades

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Inside AIA’s cloud adoption journey

  The Hong Kong-based multinational insurance firm has moved 86% of its IT infrastructure to public cloud to drive growth, productivity and efficiency

• March 15, 2023 15 Mar'23

  How industry cloud platforms are shaping the future of business applications

  More than half of enterprises are expected to use industry cloud platforms that combine cloud-based infrastructure, platform and application services to accelerate their business by 2027

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  SolarWinds doubles down on APAC business

  SolarWinds teams up with key systems integrators in the APAC region to develop joint offerings as it bolsters its capabilities in observability and autonomous operations

• March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

  Emerging markets lead growth in cloud spend in Asia

  Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines are expected to lead the rest of Asia in growing their cloud spending in 2023, study finds

• March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

  How ForgeRock is tackling identity management

  ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch has set the identity and access management software supplier on a path to deliver a frictionless identity experience without compromising security or privacy

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending

  Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  How to get mainframe modernisation right

  Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

• March 05, 2023 05 Mar'23

  FlashBlade//E to open up new opportunities in Australia

  Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//E will enable the storage supplier to target medical imaging and remote backup workloads and attract new customers in Australia

• March 02, 2023 02 Mar'23

  AWS to open cloud region in Malaysia

  Along with a new infrastructure region, AWS plans to invest $6bn in Malaysia by 2037 as it continues to expand its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  Data breaches in Australia on the rise, says OAIC

  Cyber security incidents were the cause of most data breaches, which rose by 26% in the second half of 2022, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  APAC is proving to be ‘substantial growth engine’ for Rimini Street

  Rimini Street CEO Seth Ravin outlines growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific and discusses the company’s move up the support value chain