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• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  IT not ready for AI, Pure Storage survey finds

  Storage, compute and networking hardware won’t cope without upgrades, and that often means total IT infrastructure overhaul

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Digital Edge secures green loan for South Korea datacentre

  The Singapore-based datacentre provider has secured its first green loan for its latest colocation facility in Incheon

• November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

  How Gigamon is making its mark in deep observability

  Gigamon CEO Shane Buckley talks up the company’s ability to inspect encrypted network traffic for malicious activity, how it stands out with its deep observability capabilities and the tailwinds that are fuelling its growth

• 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 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

  Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report

  Organisations are struggling to secure their use of communications tools to share data with third-party partners and suppliers, and in the process are exposing themselves to heightened levels of risk, according to a report

• 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 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.

• November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

  Lloyds bank kicks off Hyderabad operation

  Lloyds Banking Group has opened its latest tech operation in Hyderabad, with plans to recruit around 600 IT experts

• 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 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 16, 2023 16 Oct'23

  How APAC organisations are tapping generative AI

  Organisations in the region are deploying and experimenting with generative AI in healthcare, citizen services and other use cases amid cost-related concerns and other challenges

• 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

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Pure offers Evergreen energy and rackspace cost guarantees

  Pure Storage will take upfront payments for power and rackspace and guarantee those for product lifecycles in its Evergreen One, Flex and Forever consumption purchasing models

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Telstra to acquire Versent for A$267.5m

  The move is expected to bolster Telstra’s enterprise IT services business and support international expansion

• October 09, 2023 09 Oct'23

  VMware reaffirms commitment to Tanzu

  VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram emphasises the importance of having an infrastructure stack capable of supporting applications, with VMware Tanzu playing a pivotal role

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  HPE hones GreenLake strategy with AI moves, hybrid cloud management

  HPE has evolved its GreenLake strategy over the past five years, expanding beyond its as-a-service offerings to include a capital purchase model and a strong focus on hybrid cloud management and AI

• September 28, 2023 28 Sep'23

  How Akamai is driving growth in APAC

  Akamai's managing director for the region outlines the company’s growth journey, how it sets itself apart from competitors, and its strategies to drive the next phase of growth

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO

  SAN and NAS are finished in the age of the cloud when it comes to cloud-native Kubernetes storage, according to container-focused object storage maker MinIO

• September 25, 2023 25 Sep'23

  How Liverpool FC is tapping cloud and data analytics

  Liverpool Football Club is leveraging data analytics and cloud technology to improve fan engagement and enable its media production team to work more efficiently

• September 22, 2023 22 Sep'23

  How Confluent is tapping the groundswell in data streaming

  Confluent CEO Jay Kreps talks up the misconceptions of Kafka and what the company is doing to help customers better leverage the capabilities of the technology

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave

  The technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  How DocuSign is extending its capabilities beyond e-signatures

  DocuSign is harnessing large language models to help individuals make sense of agreements and employing AI-based biometrics to verify the identity of signers, as part of its broader efforts to expand its capabilities beyond electronic signatures

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  IT spending in Australia to grow 7.8% in 2024

  The growth will be led by investments in cyber security, cloud, analytics and application modernisation as Australian CIOs look to improve cost and operational efficiencies

• September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23

  How Culture Amp is tapping generative AI

  Australia’s Culture Amp is building a generative AI capability that summarises employee survey responses, automating a process that typically takes HR admins up to hundreds of hours to complete

• September 08, 2023 08 Sep'23

  How Netskope is driving growth in APAC

  Netskope is growing at over 50% year on year in the Asia-Pacific region, but the single-vendor SASE supplier is not limiting its customers to its own offerings

• September 01, 2023 01 Sep'23

  Google Cloud eyes bigger market share with AI

  Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is confident the company’s generative AI capabilities will enable it to grow faster than the market and narrow the gap with rivals

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Zurich Insurance slashes ServiceNow application development time

  Insurance giant cuts time it takes to complete development of ServiceNow applications by days

• August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

  Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  AWS debuts Dedicated Local Zones with Singapore government as first customer

  The new offering will be fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by a customer or community, and placed in a customer-specified location or datacentre

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Red Hat CEO on AI moves and source code kerfuffle

  Matt Hicks talks up Red Hat’s efforts to support generative AI adoption through OpenShift AI and weighs in on the issues surrounding the company’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• August 18, 2023 18 Aug'23

  MongoDB secures IRAP certification

  MongoDB’s certification from Australia’s Information Security Registered Assessor Program will pave the way for federal government agencies to use its Atlas database service for protected workloads

• August 16, 2023 16 Aug'23

  Accenture’s Brussels AI lab to focus on European public sector and health

  Accenture will use its Brussels AI lab to test AI and generative AI's application in the European public sector

• August 15, 2023 15 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 ...

• 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

• 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

• 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

• August 08, 2023 08 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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