Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific
Read the latest Asia-Pacific information technology (IT) news and articles for the ASEAN and Australia / New Zealand regions, covering IT management topics, including information security, data storage, networking, data centre, cloud computing, mobile applications, virtualisation, big data and more.
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News
22 Apr 2024
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 Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2024
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 Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2023
Demystifying the top five OT security myths
Goh Eng Choon, president of ST Engineering’s cyber business, outlines the common myths around OT security in a bid to raise awareness of the security challenges confronting OT systems Continue Reading
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24 Oct 2023
OCBC to roll out GenAI chatbot
Singapore’s OCBC Bank is rolling out a GenAI chatbot powered by Azure OpenAI to assist employees with writing, research and idea generation Continue Reading
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24 Oct 2023
Microsoft to invest A$5bn in Australia
Microsoft is making its largest investment in Australia to expand its infrastructure footprint, alongside plans to bolster skills training and cyber security in the country Continue Reading
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23 Oct 2023
How Ensign is leading the charge in cyber security
Lee Fook Sun, chairman of Ensign InfoSecurity, traces the company’s journey and how it is leading the charge in cyber security by doing things differently, investing in R&D and engaging with the wider ecosystem Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Oct 2023
How AI is reshaping global food systems
This is a guest post by Krishna Kumar, founder and CEO of Cropin In an era where technological advancements have revolutionised various industries, it is disheartening to witness the persistence of ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Oct 2023
How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI
Olivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption Continue Reading
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17 Oct 2023
What it takes to succeed in DevSecOps
Providing engineering leadership and balancing between speed and security are some areas that organisations will need to focus on in their DevSecOps journey Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2023
How APAC organisations are tapping generative AI
Organisations in the region are deploying and experimenting with generative AI in healthcare, citizen services and other use cases amid cost-related concerns and other challenges Continue Reading
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12 Oct 2023
How generative AI and cloud complement each other
McKinsey partner explains the symbiotic relationship between generative AI and cloud, enabling organisations to speed up cloud migration and harness the benefits of AI Continue Reading
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News
11 Oct 2023
Telstra to acquire Versent for A$267.5m
The move is expected to bolster Telstra’s enterprise IT services business and support international expansion Continue Reading
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10 Oct 2023
Singtel NaaS offering to ease hybrid network management
Singtel CUBΣ is touted to make it easier for enterprises to manage, scale and automate deployment of networking resources in a hybrid network environment Continue Reading
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09 Oct 2023
VMware reaffirms commitment to Tanzu
VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram emphasises the importance of having an infrastructure stack capable of supporting applications, with VMware Tanzu playing a pivotal role Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2023
Hydrogen fuel cells could find their way into more datacentres
Hydrogen fuel cells are more efficient and cleaner than alternative generator technologies, making them environmentally sustainable backup power supply options for datacentres, study finds Continue Reading
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News
04 Oct 2023
HPE hones GreenLake strategy with AI moves, hybrid cloud management
HPE has evolved its GreenLake strategy over the past five years, expanding beyond its as-a-service offerings to include a capital purchase model and a strong focus on hybrid cloud management and AI Continue Reading
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News
03 Oct 2023
How Pure Storage is supporting AI workloads
Pure Storage’s cloud-compatible and energy-efficient modular flash storage architecture is well-poised to address the data storage demands of artificial intelligence workloads Continue Reading
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News
03 Oct 2023
Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group
A conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly Continue Reading
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News
02 Oct 2023
How the Australian government is approaching AI
The Australian government is experimenting with AI use cases in a safe environment while it figures out ways to harness the technology to benefit citizens and businesses Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2023
As India takes off to space, the stardust will fall on IT
India's progress in space technology will yield benefits not only for its burgeoning space industry but also propel IoT and telephony applications Continue Reading
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28 Sep 2023
How Akamai is driving growth in APAC
Akamai's managing director for the region outlines the company’s growth journey, how it sets itself apart from competitors, and its strategies to drive the next phase of growth Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2023
How Liverpool FC is tapping cloud and data analytics
Liverpool Football Club is leveraging data analytics and cloud technology to improve fan engagement and enable its media production team to work more efficiently Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Sep 2023
How a responsible approach to AI enables its success
This is a guest post by Accenture's Arnab Chakraborty, global lead of responsible AI, and Senthil Ramani, head of data and AI The far-reaching capabilities of generative AI have shown AI’s first ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Sep 2023
How Confluent is tapping the groundswell in data streaming
Confluent CEO Jay Kreps talks up the misconceptions of Kafka and what the company is doing to help customers better leverage the capabilities of the technology Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2023
Cook Islands schools to get wired broadband
Schools in the Cook Islands, which have been relying on satellite connectivity for teaching and learning, will get access to wired broadband via two Pacific submarine cables over the next three years Continue Reading
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20 Sep 2023
How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave
The technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads Continue Reading
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15 Sep 2023
How India is driving tech developments at G20
India’s G20 presidency marks an important stride towards establishing a global regulatory framework for the crypto industry, among other tech developments discussed at the global forum in New Delhi this year Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2023
Singapore firefighters don smartglasses for equipment inspections
Firefighters from the Singapore Civil Defence Force will employ smartglasses equipped with computer vision and 5G capabilities to perform visual inspections of their equipment Continue Reading
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13 Sep 2023
How DocuSign is extending its capabilities beyond e-signatures
DocuSign is harnessing large language models to help individuals make sense of agreements and employing AI-based biometrics to verify the identity of signers, as part of its broader efforts to expand its capabilities beyond electronic signatures Continue Reading
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12 Sep 2023
IT spending in Australia to grow 7.8% in 2024
The growth will be led by investments in cyber security, cloud, analytics and application modernisation as Australian CIOs look to improve cost and operational efficiencies Continue Reading
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11 Sep 2023
How Culture Amp is tapping generative AI
Australia’s Culture Amp is building a generative AI capability that summarises employee survey responses, automating a process that typically takes HR admins up to hundreds of hours to complete Continue Reading
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08 Sep 2023
How Netskope is driving growth in APAC
Netskope is growing at over 50% year on year in the Asia-Pacific region, but the single-vendor SASE supplier is not limiting its customers to its own offerings Continue Reading
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07 Sep 2023
Mobile broadband approaches full regional reach in Asia-Pacific
Report from global mobile industry trade body finds mobile broadband networks are fundamental to national development in APAC as digital transformation accelerates Continue Reading
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07 Sep 2023
Singapore taps Lidar and laser scanning in remote building inspections
With the 3D data generated reality capture technologies, detailed inspections can be conducted remotely, eliminating the need for inspectors from technical authorities to be present onsite Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2023
How APAC organisations can drive IT sustainability
From using liquid cooling and optimising data storage to tapping renewable energy and recycling tape drives, organisations across the region are upping their sustainability efforts Continue Reading
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News
31 Aug 2023
SES furthers Asian satellite broadband services reach with Telemor
Satellite operator’s medium-Earth orbit system chosen to enable mobile operator in Timor-Leste to deliver improved broadband services across the island country in Asia Continue Reading
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30 Aug 2023
Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers Continue Reading
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29 Aug 2023
More Aussie apartments to get high-speed fibre
NBN will enter into Area Switch Agreements with corporate bodies to deliver high-speed fibre to some 700,000 apartments across Australia Continue Reading
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28 Aug 2023
India gets ready for new data protection regime
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act will shape the way businesses collect, secure and use personal data as India looks to protect data privacy while driving innovation and economic growth Continue Reading
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Opinion
25 Aug 2023
AI and supply chain visibility key to mitigating OT security threats
Leveraging AI and maintain visibility into the security of your software supply chain are key to mitigating cyber attacks against operational technology systems Continue Reading
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News
24 Aug 2023
AWS debuts Dedicated Local Zones with Singapore government as first customer
The new offering will be fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by a customer or community, and placed in a customer-specified location or datacentre Continue Reading
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23 Aug 2023
Inside Micron Singapore’s sustainability journey
The chipmaker has been doubling down on sustainability efforts in Singapore by tapping solar power, recycling water and waste, as well as treating greenhouse gases, in a bid to achieve net zero by 2050 Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Aug 2023
The right digital tools on the go for SMEs
SMEs should look out for business laptops that come with the performance, durability and easy management to empower their hybrid workforce to be more productive while on the move Continue Reading
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News
22 Aug 2023
Singapore to bolster OT security capabilities
Cyber Security Agency of Singapore teams up with Dragos and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to bolster the country’s OT security capabilities Continue Reading
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21 Aug 2023
Red Hat CEO on AI moves and source code kerfuffle
Matt Hicks talks up Red Hat’s efforts to support generative AI adoption through OpenShift AI and weighs in on the issues surrounding the company’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code Continue Reading
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18 Aug 2023
MongoDB secures IRAP certification
MongoDB’s certification from Australia’s Information Security Registered Assessor Program will pave the way for federal government agencies to use its Atlas database service for protected workloads Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2023
NUHS taps LLM to boost productivity, patient care
Healthcare professionals at Singapore’s National University Health System can now summarise patient case notes and predict patient healthcare journeys using a large language model trained by a supercomputer Continue Reading
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News
16 Aug 2023
CyberArk eyes growth beyond PAM
CyberArk is seeing exponential growth in the broader identity security market as the company expands its capabilities beyond privileged access management Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Aug 2023
Budget reallocation core to conquering IT cost crunch
This is a guest post by Pete Wilson, general manager for Asia-Pacific at Apptio, based in Sydney. We’ve started a new financial year with uncertainty among the only certainties in business. ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Aug 2023
How Qualtrics is driving experience management
Qualtrics’ global and regional leaders outline the company’s product directions, including its work in AI, its traction in the region and the future of experience management Continue Reading
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10 Aug 2023
Cisco: Hybrid work needs to get better
Cisco’s head of collaboration and security talks up the state of hybrid work and calls for organisations to create magnets rather than mandates for workers to collaborate in the workplace Continue Reading
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08 Aug 2023
Blundstone taps Microsoft Dynamics 365 in ERP refresh
Iconic footwear company has migrated its legacy ERP system to Dynamics 365 to support the demands of its growing business Continue Reading
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03 Aug 2023
India’s booming IT market driving up wages
Majority of India’s IT pros expect their pay to increase in the next 12 months, underscoring the country’s tight IT labour market fuelled by a booming tech sector, study finds Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2023
Two million more Australian households ready to upgrade to nbn
Australia’s national broadband network on track to enable up to 10 million premises, or up to 90% of homes and businesses, to access wholesale download speeds of 500Mbps to near 1Gbps by the end of 2025 Continue Reading
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01 Aug 2023
Singtel adds Zscaler SSE to managed security services portfolio
Singtel teams up with Zscaler to offer a managed security service edge service as it looks to ramp up its enterprise business Continue Reading
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31 Jul 2023
SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play
SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2023
How Indian organisations are keeping pace with cyber security
Indian organisations are shoring up their defences to improve their cyber resilience amid intensifying cyber threats targeted at key sectors such as healthcare and logistics Continue Reading
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27 Jul 2023
Ant Group teams with NTU to advance privacy-preserving technologies
The Chinese fintech giant is partnering with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University on a cryptographic protocol that ensures the privacy of transacting parties Continue Reading
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26 Jul 2023
Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy
Cloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2023
Why cyber security should be part of your ESG strategy
The impact of data breaches and cyber threats on businesses, societies and the environment makes cyber security a key consideration in an environment, social and governance strategy Continue Reading
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20 Jul 2023
More ASEAN IT pros staying in their jobs
Global economic uncertainty and staff retention efforts by employers are keeping the region’s IT professionals longer in their jobs Continue Reading
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19 Jul 2023
Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022
IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Jul 2023
Backup in the age of cloud
The 3-2-1 backup strategy remains relevant in the age of cloud, giving rise to hybrid approaches that combine on-premise and cloud backups to minimise data loss, reduce downtime and improve redundancy Continue Reading
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17 Jul 2023
Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play
Zoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market Continue Reading
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13 Jul 2023
Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon
Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments Continue Reading
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11 Jul 2023
NUS researchers develop biological camera to store images
NUS researchers have built a biological camera to store and organise images on live cells, potentially shaking up the data storage industry Continue Reading
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10 Jul 2023
Alibaba Cloud debuts AI image generator
The cloud supplier’s Tongyi Wanxiang generative AI model can respond to text prompts in Chinese and English to generate detailed images in an array of styles Continue Reading
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10 Jul 2023
How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming
Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services Continue Reading
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06 Jul 2023
VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC
VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity Continue Reading
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05 Jul 2023
Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking
Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers Continue Reading
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04 Jul 2023
How Maxeon is forging the path to SASE
Maxeon Solar Technologies is building out its security service edge capabilities with an eye on a SASE implementation that combines best of breed offerings from different suppliers Continue Reading
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News
03 Jul 2023
Over half of ANZ organisations hit by ransomware
Amid the rising ransomware threat, almost four in five organisations in ANZ expect to pay a ransom if they could recover data and business processes Continue Reading
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News
30 Jun 2023
How STT GDC is cracking the Philippines datacentre market
The joint venture formed by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Globe and Ayala Corporation is building its largest datacentre in the Philippines among other efforts to meet the needs of an underserved market Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Jun 2023
Hitachi Vantara: Small part of a big corp and analytics focus
We look at Hitachi Vantara, its storage, its cloud offer, the workloads it targets, and its efforts in containerisation and consumption models of storage purchasing Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2023
ANZ IT pros get salary bump this year
Over half of IT professionals in Australia and New Zealand received a higher salary this year, underscoring the tight IT labour market Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2023
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 Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Jun 2023
APAC career guide on AI
The multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence offers career opportunities not only in builder roles like engineering and data science, but also in AI ethics and applied AI Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2023
Aussie-built database migration tool makes global debut
MongoDB’s engineering team in Australia has built a database migration tool to help customers migrate traditional relational databases to its document database Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2023
Phishing and ransomware dominate Singapore’s cyber threat landscape
Phishing and ransomware attacks continued apace in Singapore last year amid signs of improving cyber hygiene Continue Reading
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22 Jun 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2023
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 Continue Reading
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News
19 Jun 2023
How Fastly thinks differently about CDNs and the edge
Fastly is counting on its developer chops and different approaches towards security and other areas to compete with its rivals Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jun 2023
It’s going to take AI to power AI
This is a guest post by Robert Linsdell, managing director for Australia and New Zealand at critical infrastructure company Vertiv We’re living in an ever-evolving digital world, one which is ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2023
Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments
Lenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner Continue Reading
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15 Jun 2023
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 Continue Reading
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E-Zine
14 Jun 2023
CW APAC: Trend Watch – Artificial intelligence
Businesses the world over are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence in their operations. In this handbook, focused on the application of AI in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at the issue of ethics in AI, what lab-grown neurons could mean for the technology, how an Indian agritech is helping firms maximise crop yields, and how to find winning AI use cases. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2023
How an ML engineer cut his teeth in AI
Machine learning engineer Saurabh Agarwal talks up his career journey in artificial intelligence and what it takes for one to succeed in the field Continue Reading
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14 Jun 2023
Cyber attacks against APAC commerce sector surpass 1.1 billion
Retailers, hotels and travel-related organisations in the region saw over a billion cyber attacks last year amid the surge in e-commerce activity and online travel bookings Continue Reading
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12 Jun 2023
How Dell is easing edge deployments
Dell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2023
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 Continue Reading
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31 May 2023
Singapore government teams up with Google Cloud on AI
The Singapore government and Google Cloud will make AI capabilities, including developer tools and AI models, available to public sector agencies through a locally hosted AI platform Continue Reading
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30 May 2023
How Pendula is driving customer communications
The Australian startup’s conversational messaging platform lets businesses draw on internal and external data to cross-sell and upsell their offerings while improving customer retention Continue Reading
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29 May 2023
Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic
Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms Continue Reading
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28 May 2023
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 Continue Reading
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24 May 2023
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 Continue Reading
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23 May 2023
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 Continue Reading
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22 May 2023
Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments
In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure Continue Reading
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21 May 2023
AI-powered robot starts sorting Melbourne’s recyclables
Melbourne’s APR Kerbside has been using an AI-powered robot to pick up used Tetra Pak beverage cartons that can be turned into poly-coated boards Continue Reading
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19 May 2023
Navigating artificial intelligence: Red flags to watch out for
Lou Steinberg, founder of cyber security research lab CTM Insights, flags up the risks of the growing use of AI, and what organisations can do to tame the technology for good Continue Reading
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18 May 2023
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 Continue Reading
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17 May 2023
Pentera ups ante in penetration testing
The Israeli startup, which expanded to the APAC region last year, scans for vulnerabilities and emulates cyber attacks through its automated security validation platform Continue Reading
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16 May 2023
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 Continue Reading