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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • April 29, 2025 29 Apr'25

    Kaspersky calls for cyber immunity amid growing cyber threats

    The rise of professional cyber crime groups and state-sponsored actors targeting critical infrastructure requires a move towards inherently secure ‘cyber immune’ systems, says Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky

  • April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

    Pharma leaders see AI revolutionising medicine

    Pharmaceutical industry experts at Gitex Asia 2025 discuss how AI is revolutionising drug discovery, from accelerating clinical trials and diagnosing rare diseases to validating traditional medicines

  • April 25, 2025 25 Apr'25

    How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design

    At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure

  • April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

    ASEAN telcos going beyond the 5G hype

    Telcos from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are moving beyond the 5G hype as they focus on driving enterprise 5G and AI adoption to drive value for customers

  • April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

    CW Innovation Awards: DBS AI assistant slashes call times and boosts productivity

    The bank’s in-house generative AI tool is streamlining customer service, reducing manual work and speeding up response times, improving both employee and customer experience

  • April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

    Standard Chartered grounds AI ambitions in data governance

    The bank’s group chief data officer, Mohammed Rahim, outlines how the bank is modernising its data infrastructure and governance practices to support its AI initiatives

  • April 16, 2025 16 Apr'25

    Security leaders grapple with AI-driven threats

    Experts warn of AI’s dual role in both empowering and challenging cyber defences, and called for intelligence sharing and the need to strike a balance between AI-driven innovation and existing security practices

  • April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

    Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings

    The Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure

  • April 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

    SUSE CEO champions open source choice

    Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions

  • April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

    Warranty fraud fuels hidden army of hardware hackers

    Widespread warranty fraud is not only costing companies billions but also creating a breeding ground for advanced hardware exploits, warns hardware hacker and researcher Bunnie Huang at Black Hat Asia 2025

  • April 10, 2025 10 Apr'25

    NetSuite bets big on built-in AI

    At its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers

  • April 07, 2025 07 Apr'25

    India’s tech talent adapts to AI era

    IT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub

  • April 03, 2025 03 Apr'25

    Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security?

    As large language models permeate industries, experts at Black Hat Asia 2025 debate the need for LLM firewalls and explore their role in fending off emerging AI threats

  • April 01, 2025 01 Apr'25

    How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease

    Singapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments

  • March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

    Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI

    The Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare

  • March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

    Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation

    At the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions

  • March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

    APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft

    Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on

  • March 23, 2025 23 Mar'25

    How Jetstar is tapping data analytics

    Low-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations

  • March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

    Snowflake founders reveal ‘cuckoo cloud’ vision that disrupted big data

    Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes reveal the journey that led to their data platform, their bet against Hadoop and why they still code on weekends to stay connected to their creation

  • March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

    Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal

    The airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence

  • March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

    Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture

    New joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy

  • March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

    Seaco charts course for unified security strategy

    Shipping container leasing giant consolidates security tools onto a single platform, leveraging AI and extended detection and response to improve security operations

  • March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

    How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime

    The tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue

  • March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

    Chinese espionage group UNC3886 targets Juniper routers

    Advanced persistent threat group UNC3886 deployed custom backdoors on end-of-life Juniper Networks routers, underscoring the need for timely patching and advanced security monitoring

  • March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

    Supercars team BJR taps Extranet Systems for racing edge

    As the demands of motorsports grow, Supercars team Brad Jones Racing turns to IT specialist Extranet Systems to manage crucial areas such as security, backup and disaster recovery

  • March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

    Singapore Airlines to roll out Salesforce Agentforce

    Singapore’s flagship carrier is deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agent platform to improve customer interactions and personalise experiences

  • March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

    Singapore IT leaders boost AI security defences

    Study reveals a surge in perceived importance of artificial intelligence for cyber security in Singapore, but declining investment in traditional measures raises concerns as sophisticated cyber attacks intensify

  • March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

    How CISOs are tackling cyber security challenges

    Security chiefs at the recent Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Sydney share insights on navigating board communication, organisational resilience and the importance of understanding business needs

  • March 07, 2025 07 Mar'25

    Managing security in the AI age

    Gartner experts offer guidance on harnessing AI’s power while mitigating its risks, from managing shadow AI to implementing security controls and policies

  • March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

    Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play

    Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation

  • March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

    Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform

    India’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation

  • March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

    Aussie businesses ramp up security spending

    Australian organisations are set to spend A$6.2bn on security and risk management in 2025, a 14.4% jump from the previous year, driven by the rise of AI and a growing threat landscape

  • March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

    Singapore’s HomeTeamNS hit by ransomware attack

    The non-profit organisation suffered a ransomware attack that affected some servers containing employee and member data, prompting an investigation and enhanced security measures

  • March 02, 2025 02 Mar'25

    AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts

    Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications

  • February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

    Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models

    The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops

  • February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

    Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience

    New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats

  • February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

    Zendesk to acquire Local Measure, boosting AI-powered voice capabilities

    The acquisition will strengthen Zendesk’s contact centre offering and integration with Amazon Connect, targeting larger enterprise clients

  • February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

    Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI

    Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth

  • February 23, 2025 23 Feb'25

    Check Point co-founder on AI, quantum and independence

    Gil Shwed, Check Point’s co-founder and executive chairman, discusses the company’s focus on artificial intelligence-driven security and his commitment to remaining an independent force in the cyber security market

  • February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

    How organisations can secure AI agents

    Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents

  • February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

    Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities

    The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption

  • February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

    South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre

    Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea

  • February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

    CPX 2025: Check Point CEO talks up hybrid mesh security

    At CPX 2025 in Bangkok, Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir outlined a vision for network security centred on hybrid mesh architecture and AI-powered capabilities

  • February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

    Lenovo CSO: AI adoption fuels security paranoia

    Doug Fisher, Lenovo’s chief security officer, outlines the company’s approach to security and AI governance, and the importance of having a strong security culture to combat cyber threats amplified by the use of AI