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• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  ANZ Bank moves digital banking services to container platform

  Australia’s largest bank now runs 30% of its internet banking services on Red Hat OpenShift in a move that has energised developers and paved the way for more automation

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Inside VMware’s Kubernetes playbook

  Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda talks up the evolution of the container orchestration platform and efforts by VMware to help enterprises get the most out of the technology

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Nutanix bolsters Kubernetes playbook with managed service

  Karbon Platform Services claims to ease container deployments in public and hybrid cloud environments in the emerging Kubernetes platform war

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  UBS streamlines software product development with GitLab

  The bank hopes to double the speed of software development, testing and deployment to support applications for clients

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Security teams struggle to keep pace with cloud threats

  Security professionals face challenges in keeping pace with cloud deployments and migrations, and the additional security threats they open up

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward

  Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Majority of organisations at risk of cloud data exposure

  Report casts doubt on the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model of cloud security

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  CIO Interview: Amex Global Business Travel CTO on incident response

  American Express Global Business Travel adapted an existing incident response service to support staff and clients during the lockdown

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HPE aims to address non-cloud apps in hybrid IT

  Some applications are simply not a good fit for the public cloud. So while organisation may go cloud-native, they still need to support on-premise IT

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Datacentre investment boost as Norway’s government reinstates tax relief

  Government reinstates datacentre energy tax relief for cryptocurrency mining organisations after investments in the country’s datacentres drops

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

  The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  What it takes to get DevSecOps right

  DevSecOps will drive at least 50% of new applications in Asia-Pacific by 2024, but getting it right will require change management, a collaborative mindset and the right automation tools

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  How to succeed at site reliability engineering

  Adoption of site reliability engineering is growing in Asia-Pacific, but organisations need to have the right organisational structure and culture to succeed

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  GitLab makes foray into Southeast Asia

  GitLab expands in Southeast Asia with a Singapore presence to shore up its growing footprint across the Asia-Pacific region

• May 18, 2020 18 May'20

  DevOps improve code quality, but security must happen sooner

  GitLab survey finds developers are adopting DevOps to improve code quality, but more needs to be done on secure coding

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  Venafi buys cloud protection service Jetstack

  Jetstack specialises in open source machine identity protection software for Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystems

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Australia’s Kmart gears up for mainframe migration

  Retailer is lifting and shifting some old Cobol code to AWS while rebuilding others into microservices in its mainframe migration move

• May 11, 2020 11 May'20

  Micro Focus sees growth in mainframe migration business

  Lifting and shifting Cobol code from mainframes to public cloud has been a growth driver for Micro Focus in the Asia-Pacific region, even as the software supplier continues to diversify its business

• May 04, 2020 04 May'20

  StorageOS v2 puts ‘mini brains’ in Kubernetes storage volumes

  StorageOS persistent software-defined storage for Kubernetes distributes control plane decisions to volumes in a cluster and takes away the impact on centralised scheduler

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  How DBS is reaping the dividends of digital transformation

  At DBS Bank, the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the value of technology and the investments it made over the past decade to modernise its technology stack

• April 20, 2020 20 Apr'20

  Green Flag waves farewell to Oracle legacy with cloud-native revamp

  The roadside breakdown rescue service has developed a technical architecture to support an ecosystem approach to business

• April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20

  GitLab expands into Australia as DevOps tooling market heats up

  DevOps platform supplier GitLab expands Down Under with a bigger workforce to meet the needs of local firms that are looking to speed up software development

• April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20

  Happy developers write secure code, report claims

  DevOps specialist Sonatype claims to have found a direct correlation between satisfied developers and application security hygiene

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency is contributing the source codes of the BlueTrace protocol that powers its contact-tracing app

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

  TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Seek ditches pagers for cloud service in IT operations

  Australian employment marketplace Seek is doing away with pagers in favour of PagerDuty’s cloud-based digital operations platform to scale up its IT operations in Asia and Australia

• March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: ANZ firms to spend more on cyber security

  Over half of respondents in Australia and New Zealand plan to invest more in cyber security, especially in key areas such as data loss prevention

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  APAC remains hotbed for digital transformation

  Nearly half of organisations in the Asia-Pacific region see digital transformation as their top priority, followed by cloud infrastructure deployment and artificial intelligence, survey finds

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Lloyds Banking Group signs five-year Google Cloud deal

  The retail bank has a multi-cloud strategy as part of its multi-billion digital transformation initiative

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

  Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation

  Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  GitHub eyes Indian market, forms local subsidiary

  GitHub is staffing its local office with engineers and sales teams to tap the growing use of its software development platform by developers and enterprises in India

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north

  Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  How container applications are shaping storage management

  Persistent storage, backup and recovery were not on the minds of those behind container applications, but that is starting to change

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?

  Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Why enterprises should care about DevOps

  Besides supporting cloud-native software development, DevOps’ biggest gains lie in legacy systems, says Puppet’s field CTO

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Top 10 storage stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories for 2019, with the latest trends in enterprise storage arrays, hyper-converged, object storage, scale-out NAS, and more

• 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 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Why Lendlease is embracing digital twin technology

  Australia-based property developer Lendlease is using digital twins and other technologies to break the bulwark of rising costs and declining productivity in the construction sector

• 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 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 17, 2019 17 Nov'19

  Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

  The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems

• 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

  Bet365 backs DevOps to improve site reliability

  The online betting site is setting up a DevOps team to improve website reliability and ensure applications are deployed quickly

• 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 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  How the DWP lifted two decades of outsourcing to adopt a cloud-first model

  For the past four-and-a-half years, the Department for Work and Pensions has been evolving into a cloud-first organisation. We find out how it has been getting on

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  How Singtel and Dell are approaching digital transformation

  Singtel employees are learning to create their own robotic process automation-powered bots while Dell has speeded up application development from months to weeks

• October 20, 2019 20 Oct'19

  The lure of Google Cloud for Singapore’s Ninja Van

  Regional logistics startup Ninja Van is consolidating all its compute resources on Google Cloud for cost savings and performance

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Southeast Asian organisations warm to Anthos

  Google Cloud sees pockets of interest in Anthos and could review its pricing strategy as adoption of the multi-cloud management platform grows

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  PDPC issues cross-border data transfer guidelines for cloud services

  Singapore’s data protection watchdog issues advisory guidelines to help businesses and cloud suppliers stay on the right side of the law under the country’s data protection regime

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  Inside Singapore Airlines’ cloud and DevOps journey

  A team of engineers at Singapore’s flagship carrier shed light on how they are overcoming challenges in embracing cloud computing and DevOps

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  How APAC enterprises can keep pace with container security

  For all the promises of containers, changes in architecture and practices associated with the technology bring new challenges and opportunities

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Australia gets ready for open banking

  Traditional banks and fintech firms alike will need to bite the bullet in the crucial startup period if Australia’s open banking regime is to succeed

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT

  A study has found that CIOs are concerned that a modern software-driven, hybrid, multi-cloud architecture will be costly and difficult to manage

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  Digital transformation requires a continuous approach to change

  There is no such thing as a one-shot business transformation. It's an on-going approach to deploying new ideas and technologies that grow the business

• August 26, 2019 26 Aug'19

  VMware’s latest acquisitions point to emerging platform war

  VMware’s buyout of Carbon Black and Pivotal is a sign of an emerging platform war following the IBM-Red Hat deal

• August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19

  Inside Facebook’s engineering culture

  An open and transparent culture that encourages developers to take risks and assume the best intent of co-workers has been the defining character of Facebook’s engineering organisation

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  Cloud Paks on Red Hat OpenShift a ‘bold step’ for IBM

  A top APAC executive at IBM says the move to containerise and run its software on Red Hat OpenShift is a big step forward for the company

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Google increases presence and investments in Finland

  New next-generation datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google’s growing interest in Finland

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

  Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  How Suse is taking open source deeper into the enterprise

  Suse’s focus on developer needs, industry-specific use cases and engineering partnerships with the likes of SAP are among efforts to take open source software deeper into the enterprise

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  Tax changes lead to review of Sweden’s datacentre development

  Swedish government has changed the rules on how it offers tax rebates to datacentre providers and users, hitting domestic companies

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  Amsterdam’s datacentres face challenges to retain high growth

  The Amsterdam datacentre market is growing rapidly, but the industry behind it must get on top of some burgeoning challenges

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition

  Rasmus Hald, who heads up the cloud centre of excellence at shipping giant Maersk, opens up about how the firm is embracing a cloud-first policy in the name of seeing off competitive threats and improving the sustainability of its operations

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Lloyds Bank uses community effort to push out DevOps

  The developers and IT operations teams were once separate. Now they are one. The challenge is getting this to scale across the business

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  How Carsales cuts through the noise in incident response

  The Australian firm is using PagerDuty to sieve through a sea of alerts from various alerting systems that notify operations staff of customer and IT issues

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  HMRC urged to delay April 2020 extension of IR35 rules to private sector by 'at least' 12 months

  An analysis of the responses HMRC has reportedly received to its consultation on extending the IR35 tax avoidance reforms to the private sector suggests the tax agency is coming under pressure to put its plans on hold for at least 12 months

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  How digital transformation underpins Three’s 5G ambitions

  At Three, the smallest of the UK’s four mobile network operators, a transformative attitude to underlying IT is helping the firm mount a serious challenge to its rivals when it comes to 5G roll-out

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Datacentre operators urged to look beyond past experience to fill talent gaps

  Panellists at the annual Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco claim operators will continue to struggle to plug talent gaps while focusing on finding candidates with years of experience in datacentres, rather than those with an aptitude for the type ...

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Keeping Java relevant in the age of cloud and agile

  Java Community Process chair Heather VanCura talks up efforts to keep Java up to speed with the needs of developers in the era of cloud and agile software development

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Government 'cloud-first' policy under review by CCS and GDS

  Longstanding cloud-first policy set to be replaced by more "appropriate" guidance to reflect public sector's changing technology deployment habits, CCS confirms

• May 03, 2019 03 May'19

  Redefining OpenStack in the ‘open infrastructure’ era

  The OpenStack Foundation’s inaugural Open Infrastructure Summit saw it share a series of updates on its efforts to expand its technological reach by forging closer ties with both users and adjacent open source communities

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  OpenStack Foundation urges enterprises to embrace open, collaborative tech development

  OpenStack Foundation executive director warns enterprises off using closed, non-collaborative product development processes to get ahead of the competition

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Amazon cautions against reading too much into slowdown in AWS revenue growth rate

  Amazon's CFO claims slowdown in revenue growth and capital expenditure should not be interpreted as signs of distress for any of its business units, as firm shifts growth strategy to prioritise operational efficiency

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Laing O’Rourke Australia chooses private cloud route

  The Australian arm of global engineering firm Laing O’Rourke signs up for Nutanix to run its core applications on a private cloud

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  AWS bags multi-year deal to support Ford-backed bid to create open connected car cloud platform

  Amazon Web Services has secured a multi-year deal to provide underlying support for a Ford-backed bid to create an open cloud platform to accelerate the development of connected car services

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Eagle Eye enlists Rackspace to lead 'all-in' Google Cloud Platform migration

  Digital marketing platform provider Eagle Eye is leaning on Rackspace to support its move to the Google Cloud Platform

• April 22, 2019 22 Apr'19

  With Anthos, Google seeks to unify open source cloud technologies

  Urs Hölzle, Google’s head of technical infrastructure, talks up efforts to deliver what he claims to be the first open source cloud stack

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Google Cloud CEO outlines plans to take firm even deeper into the enterprise

  CEO Thomas Kurian used inaugural Google Cloud Next keynote to detail how infrastructure investments, supplier partnerships and simplified processes will be key to its plans to conquer even more of the enterprise market

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Google slams public cloud rivals over 'mistreatment' of open source community

  Google Cloud has committed to forging closer ties with the open source community, while hitting out at its competitors for not doing enough to support it

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Google rebrands Cloud Services Platform and adds multi-cloud support for AWS and Azure users

  Google confirms rebrand of its Cloud Services Platform will coincide with functionality expansion that will see it add support for AWS and Azure to provide users with a consistent user experience across all clouds

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location

  Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Auto Trader UK cuts IT resource use through Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Istio adoption

  Auto Trader is the UK's biggest online marketplace for new and used car sales. Its head of infrastructure sets out how cloud, containers and microservices will help reinforce its market-leading position in the years to come

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Del Monte Foods enlists Accenture to help guide move to AWS cloud

  US-based food producer has moved hundreds of servers and business applications to the AWS public cloud as part of a push to modernise its IT estate and boost its overall business agility

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Norway datacentre strategy producing dividend

  Norway's strategy to become a favourable location for Nordic datacentres is gathering steam

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Facebook security policy and practices unfit, say infosec pros

  Confidence in Facebook’s ability to keep users’ data safe has once again been shaken by revelations of poor password protection practices, prompting calls for a security review

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  King's College London IT chief says resisting digital disruption a ‘waste of time’

  Speaking at the Cloud Expo Europe 2019 conference in London, King's College London chief architect, Ian Johns, opened up about how his past experiences of digital disruption informed his view that it's best to embrace it than fight back

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Lyft commits to going 'all-in' with AWS to support autonomous vehicles push

  Ride-sharing app Lyft is on a quest to reposition itself as a multi-modal transport company, and is deepening its use of Amazon's cloud technologies to support its work

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  How TensorFlow makes Candy Crush virtual players

  Researchers have used artificial intelligence to beat humans in popular games such as Chess and Go, but King, developer of Candy Crush, has found a novel use for it

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Nordic green energy IT strategy gains momentum

  The Nordic countries are building strong IT sectors around their green-powered datacentre infrastructures

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: Competition concerns fuel retail war between the big cloud three

  The retail market is no slouch when it comes to adopting cloud technologies, but competitive concerns appear to be influencing the cloud-buying decisions of some

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Downtime deterrent: Trustpilot SRE on using infrastructure as code to prevent site outages

  Online reviews site Trustpilot has a huge global readership, and here its site reliability engineering manager shares details of how his team help to ensure its services are always on when its users need them

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Almost half of containers in production have vulnerabilities, study finds

  More containers are being deployed in production, but many businesses are unaware if they are secure

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  ANZ businesses prefer hybrid cloud

  Companies in Australia and New Zealand are embracing public cloud, but many still prefer a hybrid IT setup

• January 03, 2019 03 Jan'19

  Trust is key to Microsoft’s APAC cloud play

  A senior Microsoft Asia executive talks up the company’s cloud momentum in the region, how it stands out from the pack, and its priorities in the new year

• December 31, 2018 31 Dec'18

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2018

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of 2018

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2018

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2018

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2018

  Australia continues to cement its position as a leader in mastering and deploying advanced information and communications technology across a large segment of its economy