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DevOps

• 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