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Information technology (IT) in India

  • February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

    Bharti Airtel, Qualcomm team to advance 5G Open RAN in India

    Subcontinent’s premier communication systems provider announces partnership with leading provider of communications chips and chipsets to accelerate the adoption of next-generation networks in India

  • February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

    How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics

    Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed

  • February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

    Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy

    Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations

  • February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

    Google Cloud partners Tata Communications in India

    Tata Communications will offer managed services for Google Cloud that will include cloud architecture planning and workload migration

  • February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

    Executive interview: Tapping APAC’s storage potential

    Lenovo’s head of storage in Asia-Pacific singles out the region’s market opportunities and predicts that the healthcare sector will go full-fledged with flash storage in the next year

  • February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

    Big data platform to speed up DNA analysis

    Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre has developed a big data platform that can analyse DNA data up to 16 times faster than current techniques

  • February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

    UiPath hires former cloud executive to head APAC business

    Former Google and AWS executive Rick Harshman will lead UiPath’s business in Asia-Pacific, where adoption of robotic process automation is growing

  • February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

    Tata Communications grows IoT footprint

    India’s Tata Communications has been shoring up its IoT capabilities through a handful of acquisitions and partnerships with telcos

  • January 31, 2021 31 Jan'21

    Indian firms see growing value of data

    Half of Indian IT leaders see a permanent increase in value of data as their organisations come under threat from mounting cyber attacks amid the pandemic

  • January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

    TCS rings in the new year on a roll

    India’s Tata Consultancy Services recorded one of its strongest third-quarter earnings and grew its brand value amid a global pandemic

  • January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

    Tech salary growth in APAC a mixed bag

    The growing demand for IT pros to support digital transformation projects has not translated to higher salaries across the board, survey finds

  • January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

    Banks and telcos lead big data analytics spending in APAC

    Banks and telcos contributed nearly one-third of spending on big data analytics in the region, while the government and healthcare sectors will register the highest growth rates, new research finds

  • January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

    APAC firms grapple with cyber security amid pandemic

    Some aspects of cyber security have taken a backseat as companies across the Asia-Pacific region rush to shore up their infrastructure to cope with the demands of remote work

  • January 11, 2021 11 Jan'21

    APAC firms’ ‘future readiness’ a mixed bag

    Led by firms in China, Singapore and Australia, just over a quarter of businesses in APAC fit the bill as a future-ready business, study finds

  • January 04, 2021 04 Jan'21

    Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC

    Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for its inaugural Innovation Awards in APAC to honour digitisation initiatives that have transformed organisations in seven industries

  • January 03, 2021 03 Jan'21

    Covid-19’s impact on the retail supply chain

    The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in the ability of retailers to mitigate supply chain imbalances

  • December 21, 2020 21 Dec'20

    5G roll-outs to continue apace in 2021

    New 5G launches will be led by telcos in forerunner markets, but the industry’s near-term outlook will depend on the timing of an economic recovery

  • December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

    Agility key to pandemic recovery, say APAC CFOs

    Chief financial officers in the Asia-Pacific region call for financial transformation to bring about the agility that their organisations need to tide over the pandemic

  • December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

    AWS eyes mainframe workloads

    Amazon Web Services is doubling down on efforts to help its partners address the growing demand for capabilities to migrate mainframe workloads to the cloud

  • December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

    Top IT predictions in APAC in 2021

    The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a cradle for technology innovation in the new year, whether it is 5G services, artificial intelligence, cloud computing or cyber security

  • December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

    How IoT keeps water flowing in rural communities

    Non-profit organisation Charity: water has built an internet-of-things device packed with sensors to keep wells in remote parts of Africa and Asia flowing with clean water

  • December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

    What it takes for APAC firms to ride out the pandemic

    Whether businesses will recover from the Covid-19 pandemic will depend on how they leverage technology to innovate, create new business models and build digital trust

  • November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

    IT Priorities: APAC enterprises readying recovery budget

    Enterprises in Asia-Pacific are investing in cloud and other key technologies to not only survive but thrive in the post-pandemic world

  • November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

    APAC plagued by APT, ransomware attacks

    The Asia-Pacific region was a primary target of advanced persistent threat groups, mostly from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, that carried out 34 campaigns between June 2019 to June 2020

  • November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

    How Aarogya Setu is addressing scale and security challenges

    India’s contact-tracing platform leverages microservices, encryption techniques and cloud-based visibility tools to address scale and security requirements

  • November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

    How Standard Chartered approaches cyber security

    Bank uses security-by-design principles and conducts red-teaming exercises among other measures to fend off cyber breaches

  • November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

    Global telcos defy previous performance expectations

    Better-performing Asia-Pacific operators lead charge driving analyst to adjust upwards previous forecast for worldwide connectivity services market

  • November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

    AWS expands footprint in India with Hyderabad region

    Amazon Web Services is investing $2.8bn in a second cloud region in one of the fastest-growing public cloud markets in the Asia-Pacific region

  • November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

    GSMA calls for whole-of-government approach to digital societies

    Asia-Pacific countries need to take a whole-of-government approach and not regulate the telecoms industry in isolation to advance their digital societies

  • November 01, 2020 01 Nov'20

    How Snowflake is charting its growth in APAC

    The cloud data warehouse supplier set foot in Asia-Pacific just three years ago and has started to gain traction among large enterprises in Singapore, India and Southeast Asia

  • October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

    APAC CISOs warm up to zero trust

    Security leaders in Asia-Pacific are adopting zero-trust security, but challenges stand in their way of reaping the full potential of the security model

  • October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

    Making sense of zero-trust security

    Implementing zero-trust security is not an easy feat, but enterprises can still get it right if they approach it from a process perspective and get a handle on their infrastructure footprint

  • 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

  • October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

    How a Singapore startup is disrupting logistics management

    Portcast’s cloud-based logistics management platform uses machine learning and big data to improve supply chain visibility for logistics companies, shipping lines and manufacturers

  • October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

    How Ethernet became the world’s networking standard

    Ethernet pioneer Bob Metcalfe outlines the technology’s early history, including the rivalry with IBM and what he did to convince people of the value of networks

  • October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

    Wipro and AWS open Sydney innovation centre

    The Wipro-AWS Launch Pad will offer in-house technical expertise for Australian businesses as well as a physical studio to spearhead cloud adoption

  • September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

    Tibco eyes growth in emerging APAC markets

    Tibco’s regional head honcho, Erich Gerber, sees massive potential in Asia’s large population and thirst for technology, including advanced analytics tools that will help businesses glean actionable insights

  • September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

    Data deluge grips enterprises amid digitisation

    Two-thirds of respondents in a new Splunk study expect the quantity of data to grow by nearly five times by 2025 as they embrace more emerging technologies

  • September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

    The inside story of Taiwan’s AI whizz

    Not content with his stellar achievements in artificial intelligence, Chih-Han Yu wanted to create an impact with his work and formed one of Taiwan’s most important unicorns

  • September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

    India’s storage market takes hit but hasn’t lost its shine

    The slower growth in storage spending in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to be mitigated by digitisation efforts by financial services and manufacturing firms