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• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

  Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments

  Google’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  Rimini Street CEO sounds death knell on ERP software

  Believing monolithic ERP applications will become obsolete in a decade, Seth Ravin is positioning Rimini Street to help enterprises transition to agentic ERP processes

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Splunk.conf: Splunk and Cisco showcase unified platform

  With 18 months having elapsed since Cisco closed its acquisition of Splunk, joint platform capabilities and developments are being showcased at the annual Splunk.conf fair

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  AI boom to push Australian IT spending past A$172bn

  Australian IT spending is set to grow by 8.9% in 2026, driven by growing investments in artificial intelligence, datacentre systems and cloud, according to Gartner

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

  The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

• September 04, 2025 04 Sep'25

  Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team chooses SAP Cloud ERP to gain edge

  Formula 1 team Mercedes-AMG Petronas has chosen SAP Cloud ERP to help it comply with upcoming regulatory changes from the FIA

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  OpenAI targets India with datacentre push

  The AI firm is planning to open a one-gigawatt datacentre in India, which could reduce latency, ensure regulatory compliance and give it an edge over hyperscalers

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Meet the IT leader In Lebanon who became an IT entrepreneur

  Nassib Chamoun says CIOs could follow his lead in swapping IT management for life as a startup, but they must be prepared to make sacrifices

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Scottish Widows completes migration of millions of accounts to TCS platform

  Pension provider reaches milestone in its digital transformation with Indian IT services giant

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  AWS goes live in New Zealand

  The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, comprising three availability zones and powered by renewable energy, will enable organisations to store sensitive data in the country

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  JFrog extends DevSecOps playbook to AI governance

  The software security specialist is leveraging its capabilities in DevSecOps to address security, data provenance and bias in AI models

• August 31, 2025 31 Aug'25

  Google Cloud brings on-premise Gemini AI to Singapore

  Move allows government agencies and regulated industries to run Google’s most powerful artificial intelligence models in their own datacentres, directly addressing data security and residency requirements to fuel the nation’s AI ambitions

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland

  Tech giant Microsoft is declining to share key information with Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wide data protection laws

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  VMware rides on private cloud renaissance in APAC

  As enterprise rebalance workload placements and reinvest in private cloud infrastructure, Broadcom is positioning its VMware Cloud Foundation as the new standard for hybrid operations

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  FairPrice taps Google Cloud to build agentic AI workforce

  Singapore’s largest retailer is deploying a suite of agentic AI applications built on Google’s Gemini, Vertex AI and Agentspace to transform its customer experience and internal workflows

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Broadcom bundles private AI into VCF, adds security automation

  At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled an integrated private cloud stack with VMware Private AI now included in VCF subscriptions, alongside cyber security services and support for cloud-native object storage

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform

  Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience

  Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push

  The government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

  The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI

  The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native

  State-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India

  Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?

  Dame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft

  The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel

  The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  How Australian firms are using graph databases

  Banks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security

  Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector

  A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme

  Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play

  The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market

• July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

  European Commission ignores calls to reassess Israel data adequacy

  The European Commission is ignoring calls to reassess Israel’s data adequacy status in spite of concerns raised about its data protection framework and use of personal data in ‘repressive practices’

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  SAP Q2 2025: 9% revenue growth to €9bn, with steady pace in cloud ERP

  Amid what SAP CEO Klein has called this year’s ‘economic uncertainty’, the supplier posted 9% revenue growth for Q2 2025, with cloud revenue up 24%

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy

  ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  Travelex replacing its software spine as part of cloud migration

  The foreign currency supplier is replacing its legacy supply chain backbone to enable its migration to the cloud

• July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

  Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

  The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share

• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

  As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks

  Amazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures

  The professional body for policing in England and Wales failed to properly manage its transition to new accounting and payroll systems

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

  Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

  The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters

• July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

  The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

  Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

  To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Public sector spends £16.6bn directly with tech suppliers every year

  Government and public sector bodies spent big on technology last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers, with 84% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group

  We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty

  The Netherlands’ ambitious talk of digital independence meets the unforgiving economics of global cloud dominance

• June 18, 2025 18 Jun'25

  Workday UK head Dan Pell: Managing AI agents requires system of record

  Speaking with Computer Weekly at Workday’s Elevate 2025 event in London, its UK and Ireland general manager discussed what it will mean to manage digital labour

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

  The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery