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August 15, 2023
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Aug'23
Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner resigns
Dual biometrics and surveillance camera watchdog will step down at the end of October 2023, noting that while he agreed to stay on until the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill received royal assent, continuing delays to its passage means ...
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August 14, 2023
14
Aug'23
How Qualtrics is driving experience management
Qualtrics’ global and regional leaders outline the company’s product directions, including its work in AI, its traction in the region and the future of experience management
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August 14, 2023
14
Aug'23
US Cyber Board to probe cloud security after latest Exchange hack
CSRB review of cloud security comes in the wake of a major Chinese cyber attack on US government bodies orchestrated through Microsoft’s cloud services
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August 12, 2023
12
Aug'23
Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk
At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure
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August 08, 2023
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Aug'23
Blundstone taps Microsoft Dynamics 365 in ERP refresh
Iconic footwear company has migrated its legacy ERP system to Dynamics 365 to support the demands of its growing business
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August 07, 2023
07
Aug'23
Microsoft fixes Azure flaw that was subject of researcher criticism
Microsoft has confirmed a potentially-dangerous flaw in the Azure platform has now been fully fixed, and moved to reassure customers that despite criticism it is committed to responsible disclosure and timely fixes
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August 07, 2023
07
Aug'23
HPE’s Alletra MP marries storage to cloud and software-defined choices
HPE’s Alletra was launched in April with an architecture that ties in with GreenLake consumption purchasing, SaaS configuration and addition of software-defined storage services
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August 04, 2023
04
Aug'23
SAP called out by German user group for Rise U-turn
German SAP user group Deutschsprachige SAP-Anwendergruppe calls on SAP for clarity around on-premise S/4Hana product enhancements
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August 04, 2023
04
Aug'23
VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Melbourne cloud region
MLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs
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August 04, 2023
04
Aug'23
Amazon CEO cites enterprise shift in cloud spending priorities for upbeat Q2 results
After a succession of downbeat quarterly results, Amazon's Q2 figures suggest a return to form
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August 03, 2023
03
Aug'23
Plexal takes on new cohort for cyber security leadership scheme
Six more cyber security startup founders have been selected to take part in Plexal’s latest Cyber Runway Ignite programme, which is designed to help them develop their leadership skills
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August 03, 2023
03
Aug'23
Cozy Bear hijacks SME Microsoft 365 tenants in latest campaign
Microsoft shares intelligence on a newly observed Cozy Bear campaign that saw the APT take over genuine Microsoft 365 tenants and subvert them to try to phish its victims
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August 03, 2023
03
Aug'23
Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice
The CEO of Tenable has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft, asserting that the organisation is deliberately keeping its Azure cloud customers in the dark about dangerous vulnerabilities and accusing it of a culture of ‘toxic obfuscation’
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August 03, 2023
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Aug'23
India’s booming IT market driving up wages
Majority of India’s IT pros expect their pay to increase in the next 12 months, underscoring the country’s tight IT labour market fuelled by a booming tech sector, study finds
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August 02, 2023
02
Aug'23
Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage
Cubbit’s DS3 offers cloud at up to 20% the cost of the main providers via on-premise software that builds a cloud with other users and targets unstructured data use cases such as backup
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August 01, 2023
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Aug'23
Singtel adds Zscaler SSE to managed security services portfolio
Singtel teams up with Zscaler to offer a managed security service edge service as it looks to ramp up its enterprise business
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
CIO interview: Sean Green, University of East Anglia
In his role as director of digital and data at the University of East Anglia, Sean Green provides high-performance computing to researchers and manages the diverse needs of a campus with the characteristics of a small town, all while finding the ...
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
More ASEAN IT pros staying in their jobs
Global economic uncertainty and staff retention efforts by employers are keeping the region’s IT professionals longer in their jobs
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
BBC outsources IT to India’s Tata Consultancy Services
TCS continues to build its UK public sector business, with the BBC its latest customer
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July 19, 2023
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Jul'23
Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022
IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth
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July 18, 2023
18
Jul'23
Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs
Overall spending on IT services is up in European countries despite continued reduction in investments in cloud-based contracts
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July 17, 2023
17
Jul'23
Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks
Police Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach...
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July 17, 2023
17
Jul'23
Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play
Zoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market
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July 10, 2023
10
Jul'23
How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming
Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services
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July 06, 2023
06
Jul'23
VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC
VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity
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July 05, 2023
05
Jul'23
Google research highlights UK economic benefits of widespread AI adoption
Google's Economic Impact Report highlights the positive benefits the wider use of AI technologies throughout society could have on the UK economy
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July 05, 2023
05
Jul'23
Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking
Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers
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July 04, 2023
04
Jul'23
How Maxeon is forging the path to SASE
Maxeon Solar Technologies is building out its security service edge capabilities with an eye on a SASE implementation that combines best of breed offerings from different suppliers
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July 03, 2023
03
Jul'23
Driving synergies in digital healthcare
As group CIO of API Holdings, Chandresh Dedhia has been driving synergies across a spectrum of digital healthcare businesses to create operational efficiency and other business outcomes
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June 27, 2023
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Jun'23
Alkira introduces extranet as a service
Provider of cloud networking as a service unveils infrastructure designed to enable third parties to securely connect to critical business applications
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June 27, 2023
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Jun'23
Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx
Buildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection
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June 26, 2023
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Jun'23
How Ikea is driving digital customer experience
Ikea franchisee in four Southeast Asian markets and Mexico taps chatbots, conversational commerce and remote planning, among other capabilities, to drive digital customer experience
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June 22, 2023
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Jun'23
Lloyds Bank to open tech centre in India
UK bank taps into Hyderabad tech ecosystem by opening a tech centre focused on improving digital experiences for customers
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June 20, 2023
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Jun'23
Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia
Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds
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June 19, 2023
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Jun'23
Jordan’s Ahli Bank launches app on cloud-native platform
Middle East bank launches app on latest cloud-native banking platform from Google-inspired company
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June 19, 2023
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Jun'23
Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options
Backup maker adds malware scanning with big names in security to immutable backup copy functionality. “Tape’s not dead” either, with restore from the venerable medium now possible
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June 16, 2023
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Jun'23
BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS
BBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data
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June 14, 2023
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Jun'23
Banks still investing heavily in legacy payments systems
Banks are missing out on additional revenues through payment services because they are stuck with inflexible legacy payments systems.
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June 13, 2023
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Jun'23
Belgian bank leaps forward in digital transformation through core banking outsourcing deal
Online bank moves to a software-as-a-service core banking platform to ‘leapfrog’ in-house development
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June 08, 2023
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Jun'23
Sweden’s Ikano Bank outsources core banking to TCS
Ikano Bank moves to cloud banking platform from Indian IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services
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June 08, 2023
08
Jun'23
Clop may have been sitting on MOVEit vulnerability for two years
The Clop cyber extortion gang may have been keeping the MOVEit SQL injection vulnerability they used to penetrate the systems of multiple victims secret for two years
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June 07, 2023
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Jun'23
Clop cyber gang claims MOVEit attack and starts harassing victims
The Clop cyber extortion and ransomware operation is demanding organisations pay a ransom to avoid data stolen via an exploited vulnerability in a file transfer product being leaked
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June 06, 2023
06
Jun'23
Indian IT services giant takes UK teachers’ pensions contract from Capita
Tata Consultancy Services bolsters its growing UK public sector customer base with key contract win
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June 06, 2023
06
Jun'23
Netherlands makes case for harmonisation of cloud security standards
Harmonisation of cyber security standards is necessary to reduce the regulatory burden on Dutch SMEs – and regulators need to cooperate better
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May 31, 2023
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May'23
Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves
Scale-out NAS maker – which specialises in large capacity for AI/ML and HPC – has come out of its on-prem shell and now plans further moves towards cloud-friendly object storage
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May 31, 2023
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May'23
Singapore government teams up with Google Cloud on AI
The Singapore government and Google Cloud will make AI capabilities, including developer tools and AI models, available to public sector agencies through a locally hosted AI platform
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May 30, 2023
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May'23
How Pendula is driving customer communications
The Australian startup’s conversational messaging platform lets businesses draw on internal and external data to cross-sell and upsell their offerings while improving customer retention
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May 29, 2023
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May'23
Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic
Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms
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May 28, 2023
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May'23
Australia’s Disability Trust picks Boomi integration platform
The non-profit organisation is using Boomi’s integration platform to integrate a mix of legacy and new systems to deliver real-time data updates and improve payroll processing, among other goals