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Cloud computing services

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2019

• December 15, 2019 15 Dec'19

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2020

  The rise of super apps, Wi-Fi 6 enabled services and cross-functional platform engineering teams are likely to dominate the Asia-Pacific IT landscape in 2020

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Cloud computing surges in the UAE in 2019

  Cloud computing take-up saw a significant acceleration in the Middle East throughout this year

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Dubai’s Kentech kicks off digital transformation drive

  Energy and industrial support company will go live in Oracle’s cloud next month

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem

  Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  European first for Vodafone as global telcos tune into AWS Wavelength

  In an endorsement of the cloud giant’s push towards the edge, leading global telcos pile in on AWS Wavelength, eyeing up large low-latency gains in key 5G use cases

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  RMIT to tackle cyber security challenges

  Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to launch a Cloud Innovation Centre to solve cyber security challenges

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS Outposts debuts in Australia

  Amazon Web Services rolls out Outposts in Australia, enabling enterprises to run a consistent version of the AWS platform at locations that require low latency

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  How AWS is growing its ASEAN footprint

  Building ‘strong autonomous country teams’ has been a key focus for AWS in Southeast Asia where demand for cloud computing services is on the rise

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Klarna uses AWS cloud as it moves from startup to global fintech force

  Swedish fintech cements its relationship with Amazon Web Services to speed up product development and support its global expansion

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Telefónica reveals global restructuring plan

  Global telco to undergo wholesale changes to prioritise markets where it says it can be relevant and grow sustainably in the long term

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Australia’s Fenner Dunlop ditches tape backups for cloud

  Australian manufacturer of conveyor belts Fenner Dunlop has freed up its IT staff to focus on future projects by moving tape backups to the cloud

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Kudelski proposes Microsoft Azure IoT security solution

  Integrated security platform claimed to enable IoT device manufacturers and providers to connect devices to Microsoft’s cloud-based IoT services at scale

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Enterprises muddled over cloud security responsibilities

  A McAfee study suggests that 2020 will be a big year for cloud adoption, but confusion still persists over who is responsible for securing it

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  VMware doubles up on Kubernetes play

  New Tanzu portfolio reflects efforts by VMware to better meet the needs of enterprises that are warming to containers and Kubernetes when building new cloud-native applications

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  How ServiceNow is empowering Asia’s mobile workforce

  ServiceNow’s newly minted managing director in Asia talks up the company’s sweet spots and traction in the region, and what it’s doing to abstract away workflow complexities for mobile workers

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  England manager Gareth Southgate tells how data analytics and cloud have helped the FA modernise

  England football manager tells Google Cloud Next UK conference how the FA is using big data and cloud collaboration tools to change the organisation's culture and improve players’ performances on the pitch

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Druva eyes data protection for IoT workloads

  Cloud data protection software supplier Druva is looking at a comprehensive platform that will protect data generated by IoT workloads

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Western Union transfers to AWS cloud

  Western Union is the latest financial services form to set out a future in the Amazon Web Services cloud

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors

  NVMe flash pioneer turned DR-as-a-service-focused data platform provider Datrium says VMware and Kubernetes have “won the market” and it won’t extend support beyond those two

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Businesses still struggling to reap benefits of cloud, study shows

  Research by global IT firm Unisys shines a light on reasons why some firms are still struggling to reap the benefits of using cloud

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  APAC has one of highest variations in cloud performance

  The network performance of public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region has greater variability than elsewhere, new study finds

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Failure to assess cloud network architectures affecting service performance

  The second annual ‘Cloud performance benchmark report’ from ThousandEyes notes the need for businesses to make rigorous assessments of underlying network architectures in cloud service acquisition

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  DataCore adds file and S3 object storage with vFilO

  Software-defined storage specialist DataCore has added file storage and S3 object storage access with vFilO, which lets customers create virtual pools from on-site and remote datastores

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

  Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  How Slack is going beyond messaging in enterprise play

  Deeper integrations with business applications and data residency support are part of Slack’s broader strategy to penetrate deeper into the enterprise

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Docker restructure sees enterprise platform business sold to open source cloud firm Mirantis

  Docker, the company credited with popularising the notion of container technologies, sells off its enterprise arm as part of a wider business restructure

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Attack on Labour shows need for DDoS defence but should alarm few

  After being hit by two DDoS attacks in the space of 24 hours, many commentators are convinced the UK’s Labour Party is the victim of foreign interference in the General Election campaign. It probably isn’t

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Shared responsibility model key to solving 5G security problem

  Both buyers and sellers need to cooperate to solve the thorny issues around 5G security

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  IBM drums up quantum computing future

  IBM’s head honcho, Ginni Rometty, welcomes Australia’s Woodside Energy to the quantum computing fold through a partnership to harness the technology to shore up cyber security and plant operations

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  How SAP is supporting ASEAN’s digital economy

  A regional SAP executive outlines what it takes for Southeast Asia’s workforce to tap the opportunities offered by the region’s booming digital economy

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  A buyer’s guide to hybrid cloud management tools

  As more Asia-Pacific enterprises gear up for the hybrid cloud, a slew of tools has emerged to help organisations manage the lifecycle of cloud applications in a heterogeneous IT environment

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Machine learning will have bigger impact than cloud

  Workday’s vice-chairman explains how machine learning can help employees become more effective, and hints at the company’s moves beyond finance and HR software

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Scality APIs connect Azure Stack to Ring object storage on-site

  Object storage specialist continues its cloud integration journey by adding Microsoft Azure Blob API connectors to allow use of Ring as bulk storage for Azure edge data

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Cloud native core banking enables consumers to personalise what they buy

  Google inspired core banking platform could help banks offer personalised products to millions of people.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  OpenStack to get standardisation boost in China

  New standards are being developed by the OpenStack Foundation and a standards body to improve the interoperability of OpenStack distributions in China

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Sumo Logic buys into cloud security software market

  Jask’s cloud-native autonomous security operations software will be integrated into Sumo Logic’s intelligence platform

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Chinese companies fuelling OpenStack adoption in APAC

  Led by Chinese tech giants such as Tencent and China Mobile, the Asia-Pacific region will account for a third of the global OpenStack market by 2023

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Government review of cloud-first policy concludes guidance should remain unchanged

  A review into the continued relevance of the UK government’s six-year-old cloud-first policy has concluded its ‘brand recognition’ is too strong for it to be scrapped, according to GDS

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Alibaba Cloud earns security credentials in automotive and healthcare sectors

  Alibaba Cloud’s compliance with Tisax and GxP follows earlier efforts by major public cloud suppliers to win over enterprises with strict data protection and security rules

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Singapore startup plugs AI skills gap with pre-trained microservices

  Sentient.io is offering artificial intelligence microservices that developers can use to augment their applications with speech recognition and other AI capabilities

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  NordVPN enlists ethical hackers, launches bug bounty programme

  Breached consumer VPN supplier details steps it is taking to shore up its cyber security posture after an unknown actor gained access to one of its servers

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Businesses at risk as mainframe skills die out

  Most businesses that are heavily reliant on mainframes fear a shrinking skills pool

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Why Singapore’s GovTech is building an IoT technology stack

  Government Technology Agency has built an internet of things technology stack to level the playing field for smaller firms and drive innovation in public sector IoT projects

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Nordic industrial giants continue to choose Indian suppliers for digital transformation

  HCL signs new deals with Volvo Cars and Equinor as India-based IT services suppliers continue to grow in the Nordic region

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  NordVPN blames datacentre provider for server breach

  VPN provider insists no user data was compromised in a March 2018 server breach, and says its datacentre provider failed to inform it of the issue

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  European companies hold back outsourcing amid recession fears

  Total outsourcing in Europe plummeted in the third quarter this year, compared with the previous three months

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Edge computing, 5G spur mobile mixed reality market

  Research identifies 5G networks and edge computing as two key emerging technologies that will accelerate the development of mixed reality from 2020

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Trend Micro buys cloud security firm to broaden offering

  Acquisition of Cloud Conformity will address often overlooked cloud security fundamentals

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers

  Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too