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• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  SAP ‘optimistic’ about S/4 Hana in APAC

  A top SAP executive is confident that more of its customers in Asia-Pacific will adopt S/4 Hana this year, as the company shores up integration of its ERP software with other business applications

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  CyberUK 22: NCSC refreshes cloud security guidance

  The National Cyber Security Centre is revising its cloud guidance as increasing uptake of potentially vulnerable cloud services puts more organisations at risk of compromise

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Malaysian government inks agreement with Google Cloud

  The cloud framework agreement with Google will make it easier for Malaysia’s public sector agencies to access Google Cloud services through a single government contract

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Naver outlines global AI ambitions

  South Korean internet giant Naver has built a global research network to advance and apply its artificial intelligence capabilities across its services

• April 26, 2022 26 Apr'22

  BCS passes defiant Ukrainian tech industry message to its members

  BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has passed on a message from Ukrainian IT suppliers that the country is open for, and in need of, business

• April 25, 2022 25 Apr'22

  Mimecast makes deeper push into ASEAN

  Mimecast opens regional office in Singapore and is looking at setting up a datacentre in Southeast Asia as it makes a deeper push into the region

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Alibaba Cloud eyes VMware workloads with new cloud service

  The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service is aimed at Chinese enterprises that are looking to move their VMware workloads to public cloud, perform disaster recovery and reduce their on-premise datacentre footprint

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  AWS fixes vulnerabilities in Log4Shell hot patch

  AWS issues fixes for a series of Log4Shell hot patches after they turned out to leave its services vulnerable to further exploitation

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Financial Ombudsman Service chooses TCS as digital transformation partner

  Tata Consultancy Services will build and implement key systems as part the Financial Ombudsman Service’s digital transformation

• April 18, 2022 18 Apr'22

  Singtel expands datacentre footprint in Indonesia

  Singtel’s datacentre platform will host selected datacentre assets from Indonesia’s Telkom as part of the telco’s move to grow its datacentre footprint in key regional markets

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Kyndryl kindles cyber incident recovery pact with Dell

  IBM spin-out Kyndryl hops into bed with Dell Technologies in a joint cyber resilience proposition

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Universal IAM policy failings put cloud environments at risk

  Almost all organisations lack appropriate IAM policy controls to effectively secure their data in the cloud, according to a damning study

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  APAC enterprises are reducing their datacentre footprint

  Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are moving from their own datacentres into co-location facilities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and lower their carbon footprint

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  AirAsia taps Google Cloud to bolster its super-app

  AirAsia is setting up a cloud centre of excellence with Google Cloud to shore up its super-app and build capabilities in site reliability engineering and machine learning operations

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  European IT and BPO outsourcing off to strong start

  European IT and business process outsourcing services continue to increase rapidly, with cloud-based services now more than half of the total

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Denonia malware may be first to target AWS Lambda

  The newly discovered Denonia malware appears to be custom designed to target AWS Lambda environments, and may be the first of its kind

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Secrecy over police EncroChat hacking is unconstitutional, defence lawyers tell top French court

  France’s constitutional court, the Conseil Constitutionnel, has heard arguments that the use of ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about police surveillance operations breaches the French constitution

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Backup: N-able emerges from white box to aim at enterprise customers

  It spent years integrated with Solarwinds and as a re-sold product, but now it plans to target enterprise customers with a backup product that aims at granular file protection and restore

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Babylon Health expands hybrid cloud infrastructure setup to include Google

  Digital healthcare provider Babylon has opened up about the work it is doing with the Google Cloud team, as it grapples with trying to meet the infrastructure needs of its rapidly growing business

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Most big businesses are taking up banking as a service

  API-based banking services allow corporate customers to offer financial services without the need for heavy tech development or regulatory approval

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Hiring and retention challenges in cyber security persist

  Latest ISACA report shows that enterprises are struggling to find and retain cyber security talent

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  NHS urgent care provider uses ID and access management to reduce complexity for clinicians

  Provider of care through NHS 111 is using a cloud-based identity and access management system to remove the need for clinicians to remember multiple passwords

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

  Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Edge computing implementations still in their infancy

  It’s still early days for enterprise implementations of edge computing, with one analyst likening it to the early days of cloud

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  TCS doubles down on innovation and talent in Australia

  Indian IT service provider TCS has opened an innovation centre in Sydney and is investing in local talent to meet the digital transformation needs of Australian organisations

• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  Alibaba Cloud debuts cloud computer in Singapore

  The Chinese cloud supplier unveils cloud computer powered by Alibaba’s Elastic Desktop Service for the first time outside China

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  More Tableau-Salesforce integrations on the cards

  Tableau and Salesforce are looking to deliver more ‘pre-integrated’ offerings that embed analytics capabilities into the latter’s portfolio of software-as-a-service applications

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  How Kofax is tapping the groundswell in automation

  Kofax is counting on its pedigree in optical character recognition and other capabilities to tap the growing market for automation technologies

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Challenges for IT providers as Ukraine crisis worsens

  Many IT providers have ceased sales to Russia, but cloud services can operate and be delivered anywhere, helping – indirectly – to fund the invasion

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  India’s Mahindra Group makes cloud move

  The Indian conglomerate will migrate SAP S/4 Hana and its data warehouse to Google Cloud and build up its DevOps capabilities

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia

  Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  How FinOps can rein in cloud costs

  More organisations are warming to FinOps to keep escalating cloud costs in check, amid growing usage of public cloud services

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Cloud suppliers eye APAC space industry

  Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are working with local governments and supplying cloud technologies to support the region’s growing space industry

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Irish data watchdog calls for ‘objective metrics’ for big tech regulation

  Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, says EU regulators must agree on metrics to measure the effectiveness of data protection regulation

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Microsoft extends Defender umbrella to Google Cloud Platform

  Redmond says extending Defender for Cloud native capabilities to the Google Cloud Platform will help simplify security for organisations pursuing multicloud strategies by eliminating the gaps where the bad guys can get in

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Hammerspace offers follow-the-sun access to on-prem and cloud storage

  Startup aims to succeed where others have failed and present file, block and object storage data from any and multiple locations as if it were local to the user

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Singtel’s Paragon platform to ease edge computing deployments

  Singtel’s new software platform is touted to make it easier for enterprises to deploy edge computing applications on its multi-access edge computing platform

• February 21, 2022 21 Feb'22

  Backup heads to cloud as ransomware hits 76% and RTOs/RPOs fail

  Veeam survey finds most can’t recover the data they want or do it in time, ransomware is now a ‘disaster’, use of the cloud is increasing, but the datacentre is still very important

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Interview: How do you define IBM?

  It is the world’s oldest computer company, and it was once said you didn’t get fired for buying from Big Blue. But a lot has changed. Sreeram Visvanathan, CEO for UK&I, explains how IBM is reinventing itself

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Cloud Security Alliance publishes guidelines to bridge compliance and DevOps

  The Cloud Security Alliance has published a report detailing practices that organisations can adopt to bridge the gap between compliance and software development and operations

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  Hackney Council could be forced to answer questions about IT security training after Psya ransomware

  Council is negotiating with the information commissioner after refusing to reply to questions under the Freedom of Information Act about staff IT and security training during the pandemic

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  Rackspace buys Singapore firm to bolster analytics capability in APAC

  Rackspace Technology’s acquisition of Just Analytics will bring delivery capabilities to Southeast Asia and pave the way for its expansion into Vietnam

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  Half of key IT spending to shift to cloud

  Some 51% of spending in key areas such as application software, infrastructure software, business process services and system infrastructure will shift to cloud by 2025, says Gartner

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Linux-based clouds an open door for attackers, says VMware

  Its prevalence as a cloud operating system means Linux is becoming a meal ticket for malicious actors, but the security industry does not seem to have cottoned on to this yet, says VMware

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  The Security Interviews: Building the UK’s future cyber ecosystem

  As the government lays out the next iteration of its Cyber Security Strategy, we speak to Plexal and Lorca’s Saj Huq about his work building a cyber ecosystem to support the UK’s future ambitions

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  Tiger offers lightweight file access for hybrid cloud

  Roar data, anyone? Tiger offers local access to cloud data, with only parts of the file being worked on downloaded and file locking in cloud buckets to ensure integrity

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  UK fintech investment sees sevenfold increase in a year

  UK fintech investment rose from $5.2bn in 2020 to $37.3bn in 2021, with 603 private equity, venture capital and merger and acquisition deals

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  UAE chooses Accenture to develop national payments platform

  Consortium led by Accenture to build new payments infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  Singtel adds Azure Edge Zones to MEC platform

  Azure customers will be able to leverage existing Azure subscriptions in Singtel’s new MEC offering and use the Azure portal to deploy 5G applications at the edge

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  Australia’s cloud market tipped to surpass $14bn in 2025

  The growth will be led by growing demand for software-as-a-service offerings as Aussie firms look to tap cloud services in their digital transformation efforts