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IT efficiency and sustainability

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Zoom brings together in-office, remote employees with Intelligent Director

  Collaboration provider expands portfolio and capability with launch of Intelligent Director, which uses AI and multiple cameras to provide optimal images and angles of participants in conference room

• June 26, 2023 26 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

• June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23

  Webex widens US government portfolio with contact centre, calling

  Webex Contact Center Enterprise for Government expanded to include Webex Calling, providing a single offer for calling, messaging and meetings that complies with key US government standard

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  Health and care staff have three months to move to latest NHS patient record service

  NHS England has told health and care workers they have until the end of September to switch to the latest patient record system

• June 22, 2023 22 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

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  How Vedanta is harnessing tech in aluminium production

  India’s largest aluminium producer Vedanta Aluminium is using industrial internet of things devices to improve emissions control and robotic process automation to improve efficiency, among other digitisation efforts

• June 20, 2023 20 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

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Green tech startups urged to join Climate Tech Supercluster to boost their growth

  The Climate Tech Supercluster has been launched to aid the growth and development of the green tech startup scene in university towns across the UK and Europe

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  NBN Co sets out to achieve net-zero by 2050

  Australia’s national broadband network operator plans to tap renewable energy and roll out energy-efficient fibre as part of its longer-term target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques

  The UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has published a variety of case studies to show how different assurance techniques can build and maintain trust in artificial intelligence systems

• June 01, 2023 01 Jun'23

  How India’s DICV is tapping smart manufacturing

  Daimler India Commercial Vehicles has deployed augmented and virtual reality, advanced sensors, data analytics and other technologies to improve manufacturing processes and customer fleet management

• May 28, 2023 28 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

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  BASF ramps up petaflops with new Quriosity HPE-build hardware

  The AMD-powered 3 petaflops supercomputer will offer BASF the ability to run more complex simulations of chemical processes

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Australian government IT spending to grow 8.4% in 2023

  The Australian government will increasingly look to digital investments, particularly automation, to drive efficiency opportunities and improve service delivery, according to Gartner

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

  AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  NAO calls for clarity on government’s net-zero innovation spending plans

  The National Audit Office is calling on the government department responsible for overseeing the UK’s net-zero policy to clarify how the money set aside to support the endeavour will be spent

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Plexal launches Cyber Runway 3.0 accelerator programme

  The latest iteration of Plexal’s government-backed cyber security startup accelerator will run four work streams to boost startups at various stages of maturity and growth

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  APAC digital leaders score wins in innovation awards

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation

  The company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act

  The proposed amendments to the EU’s AI Act have garnered a mixed reception from both industry and civil society, with the former seeing it as too stringent and the latter as not stringent enough in many areas, despite positive progress in others

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

  Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Employee perception may be key to success of UAE’s big data initiative

  Study shows the impact employee perception can have on big data projects in the United Arab Emirates

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Seagate launches 22TB IronWolf straight into QNAP NAS partnership

  Seagate’s 22TB IronWolf Pro HDD equals Western Digital for capacity. Of the big drive makers, only Toshiba now lags behind. QNAP NAS to offer petabyte capacities with new Seagate drive

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  How non-fungible tokens can be used to manage health data

  Non-fungible tokens will give patients more ownership and control over their health data and improve its transparency in healthcare research, according to SingHealth clinicians

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  ‘Inadequate data’ holding enterprises back from making progress on ESG goals, IBM study finds

  IBM survey shines light on barriers stopping enterprises from realising their ESG goals, as well as how consumer attitudes are affected

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Budget optimism among EMEA IT leaders

  IT leaders across the EMEA region are optimistic that their budgets will increase over the coming year

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Enterprises downgrade ESG investments amid economic uncertainty, Google Cloud study finds

  The second annual Google Cloud sustainability study reveals that economic uncertainty is forcing some enterprises to cut corners on their sustainability strategy to save money

• April 10, 2023 10 Apr'23

  How India’s Cropin is tapping the groundswell in agritech

  Cropin, one of the first movers in agriculture technology, has built an industry cloud platform that is now used by the likes of PepsiCo to maximise crop yields

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Lloyds and NatWest banks join Barclays in latest round of branch closures

  Lloyds and NatWest banks announce more branch closures as UK high streets continue to be stripped of banking services

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Better SME connectivity could contribute more than £5bn a year to local economies

  Operator research finds almost two-thirds of small to medium-sized enterprises in UK’s second city reveal their business could grow faster if they had access to better tech

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  CIO interview: Carter Busse, CIO, Workato

  Workato CIO Carter Busse talks up the company’s approach towards automation and its efforts to drive the technology across its business

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Climate change vs technology: Study suggests tech investments could mitigate environmental risks

  Bloomberg Media report, sponsored by investment firm Mubadala, highlights human impacts of various industry megatrends, including climate change and technology adoption

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• March 27, 2023 27 Mar'23

  Many of world’s biggest banks lack transparent policies for responsible AI

  It is unclear whether many of the world’s largest banks have adopted and are using ethical artificial intelligence development principles

• March 27, 2023 27 Mar'23

  Most Singapore organisations operate distributed IT infrastructure

  More than two-thirds of organisations in Singapore use a mix of private and public clouds as well as on-premise and hosted datacentres, even as they face challenges with data management and complexity

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  Nationwide Building Society begins another ‘generational’ tech change

  Nationwide Building Society's migration of its payments to a cloud-based software platform is a ‘generational change’

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  Podium taps ChatGPT for reputation management

  The customer interaction and payment specialist with operations in Australia has integrated ChatGPT into its platform to help local businesses respond to customer reviews on social media

• March 22, 2023 22 Mar'23

  OVHcloud opens India datacentre

  The French cloud service provider has opened its first datacentre in India that will provide Indian businesses with access to local compute and storage capabilities

• March 21, 2023 21 Mar'23

  Danish law firm transforms digital collaboration through core system replacement

  NJORD has transformed how it shares documents among lawyers through a cloud-based platform

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Inside AIA’s cloud adoption journey

  The Hong Kong-based multinational insurance firm has moved 86% of its IT infrastructure to public cloud to drive growth, productivity and efficiency

• March 17, 2023 17 Mar'23

  CIO interview: Russ Thornton, chief technology officer, Shawbrook Bank

  Russ Thornton swapped life on the theatre podium for financial services IT, but thrives in an environment where orchestrating IT teams is a core skill

• March 16, 2023 16 Mar'23

  Developing countries risk being left behind by green tech revolution, warns UN development body

  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development urges action from governments and developed countries to ensure the developing world does not miss out on the opportunity to benefit economically from the green tech revolution

• March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

  CDO interview: Athina Kanioura, chief strategy and transformation officer, PepsiCo

  Multinational food, snack and beverage firm PepsiCo is halfway through a five-year digital transformation strategy that aims to create ‘a totally different company’

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  IT worker evidence reveals a toxic Post Office IT helpdesk that discriminated against subpostmasters

  IT worker tells public inquiry that the Post Office Horizon helpdesk was toxic, rudderless and racist

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending

  Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas

• March 03, 2023 03 Mar'23

  White House unveils National Cybersecurity Strategy

  The strategy will focus on ensuring closer collaboration on cyber security between government and industry, while giving software and other tech companies a bigger role in combatting threats due to their resources and expertise