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Information technology (IT) in India

  • 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 15, 2023 15 Mar'23

    How industry cloud platforms are shaping the future of business applications

    More than half of enterprises are expected to use industry cloud platforms that combine cloud-based infrastructure, platform and application services to accelerate their business by 2027

  • March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

    SolarWinds doubles down on APAC business

    SolarWinds teams up with key systems integrators in the APAC region to develop joint offerings as it bolsters its capabilities in observability and autonomous operations

  • March 10, 2023 10 Mar'23

    Emerging markets lead growth in cloud spend in Asia

    Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines are expected to lead the rest of Asia in growing their cloud spending in 2023, study finds

  • March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

    How ForgeRock is tackling identity management

    ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch has set the identity and access management software supplier on a path to deliver a frictionless identity experience without compromising security or privacy

  • 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 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

    How to get mainframe modernisation right

    Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

  • March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

    APAC is proving to be ‘substantial growth engine’ for Rimini Street

    Rimini Street CEO Seth Ravin outlines growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific and discusses the company’s move up the support value chain

  • February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

    How Dell is future-proofing its business

    Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth

  • February 24, 2023 24 Feb'23

    Teradata reports strong cloud earnings

    Teradata’s cloud-first strategy is starting to pay off, with the company reporting its strongest cloud earnings to date in the fourth quarter last year

  • February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

    How APAC organisations can harness the power of IoT

    In a panel discussion moderated by Computer Weekly, industry experts from across Asia-Pacific discussed the use cases, challenges and future developments in the internet of things

  • February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

    How Syniti is honing its chops in data management

    A move to shed its back office image and a laser focus on data migration has been fuelling Syniti’s growth in data management

  • February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

    How to tame the identity sprawl

    Organisations should find a comprehensive way to gain full visibility into their digital identities and leverage automation to tame the identify sprawl

  • February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

    Dell tells suppliers to diversify fab and backend facilities

    Dell calls for chip suppliers to diversify their fabrication and backend facilities by the end of 2024 to improve its supply chain resilience

  • February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

    Akamai eyes cloud market with Connected Cloud

    Akamai marks foray into cloud computing with a distributed cloud computing platform that is touted to make it easier for enterprises to get applications and data closer to their customers

  • February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

    How Check Point is keeping pace with the cyber security landscape

    Check Point Software CEO Gil Shwed talks up the company’s growth areas, its approach to cloud security and the impact of generative AI on cyber security

  • February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

    India launches homegrown BharOS

    The homegrown Android-based mobile operating system could reduce India’s reliance on foreign software, but uncertainties around market adoption and software updates remain

  • February 06, 2023 06 Feb'23

    How artificial intelligence is playing a role in insect farming

    An AI engine developed by Singapore startup EntoVerse is helping cricket farmers improve yield by optimising environmental and other conditions

  • January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

    Noventiq eyes APAC IT services market

    IT services provider Noventiq has been expanding its presence in APAC through several acquisitions in India, and is eyeing a bigger slice of the region’s IT services pie

  • January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

    Zero-trust implementations remain work in progress

    Just one in 10 large enterprises are expected to have mature and measurable zero-trust programmes in place by 2026, study finds

  • January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

    APAC consumers expect human-like service from chatbots

    Consumer expectations of chatbots in Asia-Pacific have risen in tandem with improved performance of AI applications over the past year, a study has found

  • January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

    How Aruba is tapping opportunities in networking

    Aruba is planning to expand its product portfolio, make deeper inroads into datacentres and drive adoption of network as a service, among other efforts to tap opportunities in the networking market

  • January 16, 2023 16 Jan'23

    How India is driving the use of open government data

    India’s Open Government Data platform has paved the way for new applications and services, but concerns around data quality and privacy remain

  • January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

    How Indian banks can drive automation in corporate banking

    Banks should prioritise their processes for automation based on the level of human intervention, understand their processes thoroughly and put employees at the centre of their automation efforts

  • January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

    How to find winning artificial intelligence use cases

    Choosing use cases for artificial intelligence requires organisations to take a hard look at business value, risk, data and other capabilities required to realise the technology’s full potential

  • January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

    How to identify a strategic technology platform

    A strategic platform has to be broad enough to support a range of business functions while being open, extensible and modular at the same time, according to Forrester

  • January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

    How cloud technology is supporting space missions

    Cloud-based machine learning and other services are finding their way into space to analyse satellite imagery and monitor space debris, among other space applications

  • January 02, 2023 02 Jan'23

    China and India governments among top targets for cyber attackers

    Chinese and Indian governments targeted by hacktivists and ransomware groups out to make statement or expose flaws in their respective security postures

  • December 22, 2022 22 Dec'22

    Top 10 India IT stories of 2022

    We recap the top 10 stories in India, including the digitisation work undertaken by global firms in the country and the progress made by local enterprises in harnessing technology

  • December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

    GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers

    Artificial intelligence will enable developers to learn at their own pace and become more productive rather than take over their jobs, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke

  • December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

    Alibaba Cloud to debut blockchain service

    The Chinese cloud supplier is readying a blockchain node service to simplify and speed up blockchain technology deployments

  • December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

    How India is moving towards net zero

    Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing

  • December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

    Top IT predictions in APAC in 2023

    Robotics, cross-cloud data mobility and cyber insurance are some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2023

  • December 11, 2022 11 Dec'22

    How Zscaler is cracking APAC’s cloud security market

    Zscaler’s head in Asia-Pacific and Japan talks up the company’s growth momentum in the region and what it is doing to address areas where it can do better

  • December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

    How Databricks is easing lakehouse adoption

    Databricks is making it easier for organisations to adopt a data lakehouse architecture through support for industry-specific file formats, data sharing and streaming processing, among other areas

  • December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

    How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management

    HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential

  • December 04, 2022 04 Dec'22

    How Bosch is driving Industry 4.0 in India

    Bosch India is leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to detect manufacturing defects and plans to tap quantum computing for material simulation

  • December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

    Communications runs in his blood

    Symbio Connect CEO Giorgio Mihaila has spent more than two decades in a career dotted with roles at major communications technology providers

  • November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

    AWS doubles down on data management

    Cloud giant Amazon Web Services declares a bold vision to eliminate the need to extract, transform and load data alongside other efforts to address business problems in domains like cyber security and logistics

  • November 26, 2022 26 Nov'22

    Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

    Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for the annual Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have transformed organisations in six industries

  • November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

    Getting data analytics right

    Organisations will need to marry the art and science of data analytics to drive innovation in their analytics initiatives, according to Gartner

  • November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

    Informatica CEO: ‘We’re the Switzerland of data’

    Informatica CEO Amit Walia talks up the company’s role as the ‘Switzerland of data’, helping organisations to manage data across different platforms as it transitions into a cloud-first supplier of data management tools

  • November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

    How Google and Mandiant are forging synergies in cyber security

    Google’s AI smarts and Mandiant’s intelligence on new and emerging threats could lay the foundation of proactive security

  • November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

    Metaverse could add up to $1.4tn a year to Asia’s GDP

    The metaverse may still be in its infancy, but sustained investments in the technology over the next decade could have a significant impact on Asia’s economy

  • November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

    Why Sophos is bullish on managed security services

    Sophos has grown its managed detection and response business to more than $100m over the last three years as more organisations grapple with the increasingly complex cyber security landscape

  • November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

    How organisations can right-size their data footprint

    More data is not always better, says Gartner, which is calling for organisations to focus on metadata and synthetic data to reduce their data liability and address privacy challenges