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Information technology (IT) in India

  • March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

    Emerging markets prioritise top-line growth with agentic AI

    While firms in mature markets are using AI agents to automate routine tasks, those in emerging markets where the cost of the technology is higher than that of human labour are favouring revenue-generating use cases

  • March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

    AI transformation must start at the top, but boards remain divided

    While C-suite interest in AI has shifted from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’, Diligent CEO Brian Stafford warns that true enterprise transformation requires hands-on leadership from the board

  • March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

    Micron opens $2.75bn chip assembly plant in India

    Test and assembly site in Gujarat marks India’s first commercial semiconductor production following multibillion-dollar investments in US and Singapore to meet growing demand for storage and memory chips

  • February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

    CrowdStrike touts agentic SOC to tackle security woes

    By embedding AI agents across its platform, CrowdStrike is looking to help security teams automate repetitive security tasks, enabling them to focus on complex and stealthier threats that could slip under the radar

  • February 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

    Why crypto agility is key to quantum readiness

    With quantum computing threatening current encryption standards, experts call for organisations to achieve crypto agility by managing the lifecycle of certificates and cryptographic keys through automation

  • February 20, 2026 20 Feb'26

    What it takes to secure agentic commerce

    With AI agents increasingly acting as digital concierges for shoppers, verifying bot identities, securing the APIs they rely on and detecting anomalous behaviour will be key to safeguarding automated transactions, according to Akamai

  • February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

    Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure

    Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications

  • February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

    APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands

    Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions

  • February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

    Arctic Wolf targets mid-market security gap in APAC

    Following the launch of its full portfolio in Malaysia, the SOC provider discusses the security challenges facing lean IT teams, the value of supplier neutrality, and its roadmap for AI and ransomware protection

  • February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

    As space gets crowded, cyber threats from jamming to stalker satellites loom large

    Experts at the inaugural CYSAT Asia in Singapore warn of the urgency of securing space assets amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities

  • February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

    Why traditional automation is key to avoid the AI solution trap

    Boards are pushing for AI, but Nintex CTO Niranjan Vijayaragavan warns that AI projects are destined to fail without a foundation of traditional automation and clean data

  • February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

    LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time

    LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role

  • February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

    5G and Wi-Fi battle for dominance in APAC

    Analysis from Opensignal reveals that the Asia-Pacific region is no longer converging on a single connectivity model, with some markets pivoting to Wi-Fi while others double down on mobile

  • January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

    Sovereign and edge AI drive return to on-premise Kubernetes

    While public cloud services remain popular, the need to control sensitive data and maximise GPU performance is pushing enterprises to deploy Kubernetes in their own datacentres

  • January 18, 2026 18 Jan'26

    APAC enterprises to boost AI spend by 15% in 2026

    Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2026 reveals that 96% of APAC organisations are planning to invest more in AI, with a growing reliance on hybrid infrastructure to manage rising inference costs

  • January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

    AI governance provides guardrails for faster innovation

    Dataiku’s field chief data officer for Asia-Pacific and Japan discusses how implementing AI governance can accelerate innovation while mitigating the risks of shadow AI

  • January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

    India and Singapore outpace global peers in agentic AI adoption

    Research from Thoughtworks reveals that while 77% of global businesses are focused on generating revenue from AI initiatives, Asian markets are leading the charge in agentic AI adoption, job creation and executive confidence

  • January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

    Lenovo taps AI and digital twins to power World Cup 2026

    Technology partner for upcoming football tournament has built an artificial intelligence knowledge assistant for coaches, digital avatars to assist VAR decisions, and smart infrastructure for venue management

  • January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

    Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

    The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

  • January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

    Global cloud infrastructure spending hits $102.6bn in Q3 2025

    The cloud infrastructure market grew 25% year on year, driven by enterprises moving from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, according to research from Omdia

  • December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

    Top 10 India stories of 2025

    From infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025

  • December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

    Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

    Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

  • December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

    Microsoft taps Indian IT giants for agentic AI rollout

    The partnership with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro follows a $17.5bn pledge by the tech giant to bolster India’s cloud and AI infrastructure

  • December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

    Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer

    While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

  • December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

    AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent

    At AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics

  • November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

    Organisations facing sustainability challenge amid AI ambitions

    Cisco and NTT Data executives warn that while business leaders drive AI adoption, both legacy infrastructure and rising energy costs are creating a sustainability bottleneck that requires urgent attention

  • November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

    AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

    AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

  • November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

    Cisco: Network architectures must be rebuilt for agentic AI

    Rising traffic volumes, AI-powered security threats and the move to agentic workflows will require organisations to modernise their network infrastructure

  • November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

    Microsoft unveils AI agents to automate security operations

    Tech giant bakes AI agents into its security products to democratise advanced security capabilities, automate repetitive tasks and provide context-aware intelligence for cyber defenders

  • November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

    Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

    Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

  • November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

    Google: Don’t get distracted by AI, focus on real cyber threats

    While hackers are using artificial intelligence to optimise attacks, many of the most damaging breaches still rely on old-school methods, says a top security analyst from Google

  • November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

    How Palo Alto Networks is leveraging AI

    Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how the company is using AI to sieve through 90 billion security events a day, and why security and user experience are two sides of the same coin

  • November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

    Darktrace: Developer tools under constant attack

    Attackers are using automated tools to target development environments within seconds of them going live, warns Darktrace’s global field chief information security officer

  • November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

    Most developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools

    Study finds that 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools, but many of their employers lack formal AI policies, leaving them to forge their own paths in upskilling and governance

  • November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

    How Zoom is approaching agentic AI

    Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning

  • October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

    Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount

    The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response

  • October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

    Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey

    Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud

  • October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

    BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration

    Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia

  • October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

    AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

    Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

  • October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

    Building security and trust in AI agents

    AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO

    To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code

    F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry

  • October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

    Obsession with cyber breach notification fuelling costly mistakes

    The race to meet security breach notification deadlines is leading to staff burnout, destroyed evidence and a culture of blame, warns a Trend Micro risk and security strategist

  • October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

    Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI

    The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson

  • October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

    Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

    Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres

  • October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

    Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered

    Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist