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Information technology (IT) in India

  • June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

    How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’

    Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business

  • May 30, 2024 30 May'24

    FWD teams up with AWS on cloud

    The pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services

  • May 29, 2024 29 May'24

    How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

    Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy

  • May 26, 2024 26 May'24

    Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

    Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

  • May 23, 2024 23 May'24

    APAC to gain $4.5tn in economic value from GenAI

    The region’s largest economies could see a 0.7 percentage point increase in their annual GDP by leveraging generative AI responsibly at scale with a focus on people

  • May 23, 2024 23 May'24

    Munich Re sees strong growth in AI insurance

    Global reinsurance giant Munich Re expects more demand for AI insurance from organisations that are looking to manage the risks of AI as they experiment more with the technology

  • May 20, 2024 20 May'24

    Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves

    Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware

  • May 15, 2024 15 May'24

    Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements

    Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks

  • May 09, 2024 09 May'24

    Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

    Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

  • May 07, 2024 07 May'24

    Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

    Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads

  • May 03, 2024 03 May'24

    Why IAM is central to cyber security

    BeyondTrust’s chief security strategist talks up the importance of identity and access management, and the role of cyber insurance in driving security improvements

  • May 02, 2024 02 May'24

    How Okta is fending off identity-based attacks

    Okta has been bolstering the security of its own infrastructure and building new tools to scan customer environments for vulnerable identities, among other efforts to fend off identity-based attacks

  • April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

    Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey

    Oracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey

  • April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

    INDO-MIM taps 3D printing in precision manufacturing

    The precision metal parts manufacturer is using HP’s Metal Jet S100 printers to produce components using metal powder for the automotive, healthcare and other industries

  • April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

    Zero trust is a strategy, not a technology

    Zero-trust security should be seen as a strategy to protect high-value assets and is not tied to a specific technology or product, says the model’s creator John Kindervag

  • April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

    Digital Edge punching above its weight in Asia datacentre market

    Fast-growing datacentre provider Digital Edge is eyeing business from hyperscalers and counting on its strengths in datacentre operations and local partnerships to stand out from rivals

  • April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

    How Manipal Hospitals is driving tech innovations in healthcare

    Manipal Hospitals’ video consultation services and a nurse rostering app are among the tech innovations it is spurring to improve patient care and ward operations

  • April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

    VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes

    VMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term

  • April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

    Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation

    DBS Bank and NUS were among the top industry innovators that were lauded for various transformational initiatives at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2024

  • April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

    Google Cloud debuts agent builder to ease GenAI adoption

    Vertex AI Agent Builder is touted to enable developers with different levels of expertise to build conversational AI agents grounded in enterprise data

  • April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

    Google Cloud embeds Gemini across product portfolio

    Google Cloud’s Gemini model will power a slew of AI assistant capabilities across its portfolio to bring the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users

  • April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

    What Cisco’s Splunk acquisition means for APAC customers

    APAC organisations can expect better visibility and insights into their networks and applications along with automation and response capabilities to improve their digital resilience

  • April 05, 2024 05 Apr'24

    How Oracle Red Bull Racing guards against cyber threats

    The F1 team is tapping managed security services, conducting penetration tests and improving security awareness among employees to fend off cyber threats such as phishing and ransomware

  • April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

    Boomi CEO anticipates rise of the AI agent economy

    Boomi CEO talks up the company’s efforts to build up an AI agent architecture, its upcoming AI capabilities set to debut next month, and its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

  • March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

    Indian large language models gain momentum

    Indian LLMs trained on Indic languages are now being used by businesses and governments to better serve the needs of a diverse multilingual country

  • March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

    How SAP is infusing AI into its business applications

    SAP’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company’s approach towards AI and how it is making the technology more accessible to customers

  • March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

    Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

    Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix

  • March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

    How Vast Data is simplifying data infrastructure

    Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company’s unified data platform that combines storage, database and compute capabilities into a single technology stack can improve the efficiency of analytics and artificial intelligence workloads

  • March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

    More DDoS attacks launched against APAC financial firms

    The financial sector in Asia-Pacific saw more DDoS attacks in 2023, but no notable impact was reported, according to a report by Akamai and FS-ISAC

  • March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

    How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services

    Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector

  • March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

    Indian government issues advisory to mitigate AI risks

    Tech firms will require permission from the government to use and provide under-tested or unreliable AI models and software to Indian users

  • March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

    APAC firms bullish on IT spending

    More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region

  • February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

    How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity

    TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories

  • February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

    Global telcos team up on large language models

    Global Telco AI Alliance comprising telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East will form joint venture to build multilingual LLMs that are more attuned to telco domain

  • February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

    How Indian fintechs can address compliance issues

    Fintechs will need to bolster their know-your-customer practices and establish self-regulatory mechanisms, among other measures, to address compliance issues that have come under the spotlight

  • February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

    Inside NetApp’s cloud and AI strategy

    NetApp’s senior executives talk up the company’s efforts to support AI initiatives and deliver first-party storage services on public cloud platforms

  • January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

    Inside India’s supercomputing journey

    India is looking to shore up its supercomputing capabilities, but more needs to be done to realise its ambition of becoming a world leader in the field

  • January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

    Inside Cisco’s security platform strategy

    Raj Chopra, senior vice-president of Cisco’s security business, outlines the company’s security platform strategy and how it brought different products together into a single platform

  • January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

    AMD bets on India, doubles down on AI

    The chipmaker recently inaugurated its largest global design facility in Bangalore as part of a $400m investment in India to support its expanded portfolio and build artificial intelligence capabilities

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    APAC leaders expect tech disruption to accelerate

    Nearly two-thirds of C-suite leaders in the region expect the pace of technology disruption to accelerate further in 2024, driven by advancements in generative AI