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• January 21, 2024 21 Jan'24

  Stellar Lifestyle opens high-tech retail space

  The Hive 2.0 retail space in Esplanade Xchange uses AI and robots to enable self-checkout, prepare and serve beverages, and deliver items to offices in a nearby building

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  AWS plans huge investment in Japan cloud infrastructure

  Amazon Web Services plans to invest over $15bn into its existing cloud infrastructure in Tokyo and Osaka by 2027 to meet growing customer demand

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  Vodafone looks to ‘hyperscale’ IoT through Microsoft strategic partnership

  IT giant and telco unite with plan to transform customer experience using generative AI, looking to scale standalone IoT business and accelerate digital transformation

• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF

  While artificial intelligence will replace some jobs and complement others, the International Monetary Fund says that, in most of the scenarios it envisages, the technology will likely deepen macro-economic inequalities

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  CES 2024: Volvo Penta advances sea vehicle intelligence

  Automotive giant’s new platform combines dual power propulsion and smart features ranging from eco mode to assisted docking to dynamic positioning through electronic vessel control system for a premium on-water experience

• January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

  Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI

  Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing

• December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

  Top 10 India IT stories of 2023

  We recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2023

  Generative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2023

• December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

  Top 10 information management stories of 2023

  Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journey

  The Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024

  Generative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  SAP strategy: Why customers need an innovation plan

  Rise appears to be the place where SAP has promised customers the latest innovations, raising the question of what happens to everyone else

• December 04, 2023 04 Dec'23

  CIO interview: Sasha Jory, Hastings Direct

  For a company aiming to be the biggest digital insurer in the UK, that means going cloud-first, and focusing on innovation for both customers and employees

• November 30, 2023 30 Nov'23

  AWS debuts model evaluation tool in Bedrock

  The Model Evaluation tool in Bedrock will help organisations evaluate and test large language models that are best suited to their needs based on criteria like accuracy, toxicity and cost

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  Aerodyne taps AWS to power drone platform

  The Malaysia-based startup is running its Dronos platform on AWS to expand its footprint globally and support a variety of drone use cases, from agriculture seeding to cellular tower maintenance

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  Re:Invent 2023: Selipsky cues Q to project future shape of work

  At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, Re:Invent, CEO Adam Selipsky hails GenAI capacity of product Q to reshape the future of work

• November 28, 2023 28 Nov'23

  AWS sharpens focus in APAC

  AWS is doubling down on industry offerings and investing in cloud infrastructure and skills training, among other efforts, to tap growth opportunities in the region

• November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

  SAP needs to address breakdown in trust

  Outgoing UK and Ireland SAP user group chair calls on SAP to rebuild trust and plot a path to innovate S/4Hana for those who run ERP on-premise

• November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

  ‘Excited’ finance firms pump money into digital technology

  Over three-quarters of finance firms are currently restricted in what they can spend on technology due to the global economic climate, but expect spending to resume next year

• November 23, 2023 23 Nov'23

  Microsoft bans SME partners from selling its services via government's Cloud Compute 2 framework

  Microsoft is under fire after documents leaked to Computer Weekly revealed it has banned reseller partners from selling its services via the government’s soon-to-be launched Cloud Compute 2 framework

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Oracle NetSuite CEO Goldberg: AI a sleeping giant coming to life

  Speaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteWorld, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence has emerged from obscurity to be of business moment

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Capgemini and Heathrow strike deal to enhance passenger experience

  Capgemini and Heathrow team up to provide development and operations support for the airport’s technology estate

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Workato CEO calls for new automation mindset

  Workato CEO Vijay Tella urges organisations to go beyond the ‘mechanistic glue’ of automating manual processes and embrace a new automation mindset that focuses on transforming their business

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Cancer Research UK uses AWS for payments and trial search function

  Charity Cancer Research UK has been using AWS to make its donations platform more scalable, as well as making it easier for patients to find clinical trials

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push

  Music streaming giant Spotify is forging even closer ties with its long-standing cloud partner Google in an effort to improve user experience with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding

  An annual sustainability study by SAP reveals UK businesses are on the right track, but still face barriers in the long run

• November 13, 2023 13 Nov'23

  Australia’s public cloud spending to hit A$23bn in 2024

  Spending on public cloud services in Australia will reach 50% of the total addressable market for the first time in 2024, according to Gartner

• November 13, 2023 13 Nov'23

  Encrypted mail service Tuta says it was wrongly accused of being a front for intelligence services

  German encrypted email service Tuta, formerly known as Tutanota, has denied claims by a former Canadian police intelligence officer accused of passing secrets to criminals that it was compromised by intelligence services

• November 10, 2023 10 Nov'23

  Orange Business shifts towards digital, aims to transform SD-WAN with VMware

  Business services division of leading connectivity provider unveils strategy to offer end-to-end stack of digital solutions through B2B portfolio and strikes partnership with cloud computing company for software-defined wide-area network offer

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  How Village Roadshow modernised ITSM with cloud

  Australian theme park and cinema operator reduced ITSM costs by 60% to improve problem resolution and other outcomes from use of Freshworks' cloud-based ITSM service

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Conflict of interest concerns raised over CMA's use of AWS UK public sector discount scheme

  Less than a month after the CMA confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of AWS preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations

  SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

  VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes

• November 05, 2023 05 Nov'23

  AWS to open Malaysia cloud region in 2024

  Amazon Web Services’ new cloud region in Malaysia will open next year to meet the increased demand for cloud services and support digitisation efforts in the country

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  SAP lays out generative AI strategy

  SAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers

• November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

  Cloud banking fintech unicorn cuts 50 staff

  UK fintech unicorn reduces its total staff by about 7% with sales and marketing roles taking the biggest hit.

• October 30, 2023 30 Oct'23

  Devon County digitises with Unit4 ERP

  Unit4 and Embridge Consulting have paired up to help Devon County Council digitise its organisation, data and services

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  Google launches bug bounties for generative AI attack scenarios

  Google expands its bug bounty programme to encompass generative AI and takes steps to grow its commitment to supply chain security as it relates to the emerging technology

• October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

  OCBC to roll out GenAI chatbot

  Singapore’s OCBC Bank is rolling out a GenAI chatbot powered by Azure OpenAI to assist employees with writing, research and idea generation

• October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

  Microsoft to invest A$5bn in Australia

  Microsoft is making its largest investment in Australia to expand its infrastructure footprint, alongside plans to bolster skills training and cyber security in the country

• October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23

  Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre completes contact centre upgrade

  NGO dedicated to offering free-of-charge medical services to the Egyptian people chooses premise-based advanced comms platform to underpin each layer of communication at new facility

• October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

  How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI

  Olivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption

• October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

  Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration

  S3-compliant object storage specialist will use new OSIS integration with VMware’s cloud management tool to target service providers that want to deliver regional cloud offers

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  BT stitches multi-cloud with Global Fabric

  UK’s leading telco unveils network-as-a-service offering designed to enable customers to boost cost, security and sustainability while optimising application performance and user experience

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  Gitex Global 2023: Motul looks to deliver ‘effortless’ experiences in cloud comms

  Global oil and lubricants company adopts suite of cloud-based contact centre and unified communications solutions to improve customer experience and enable global employees to collaborate better across borders

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  SuiteWorld 23: Oracle NetSuite pushes business efficiency by way of AI

  Oracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg posited AI old and new as means for organisations to do more with fewer resources, speaking at the company’s annual global SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas

• October 16, 2023 16 Oct'23

  Oracle’s Steve Miranda: Customers nearing inflection point with Fusion

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed how its customers are moving from project-driven to business-driven approaches, and how GenAI is for real

• October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

  How generative AI and cloud complement each other

  McKinsey partner explains the symbiotic relationship between generative AI and cloud, enabling organisations to speed up cloud migration and harness the benefits of AI