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  • December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

    Top 10 India IT stories of 2023

    We recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies

  • December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

    Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023

    We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the innovations and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year

  • December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

    Top 10 storage stories of 2023

    In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

  • December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

    Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

    In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing

  • December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

    Orange Business boosts digital ambitions with Expertime acquisition

    Acquisition of consulting company by business services division of global telco becomes latest part of strategic ambition to accelerate growth in digital services and support growth in digital, public cloud, AI and data

  • December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

    Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategy

    Zoom’s federated approach towards generative AI allows it to use a combination of models that are most suitable for the task on hand while lowering costs for itself and customers

  • December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

    Alibaba debuts LLMs for Southeast Asia

    Alibaba’s SeaLLMs are built to address the linguistic diversity and nuances in Southeast Asia, enabling businesses to deploy localised chatbots and translation applications

  • December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

    Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journey

    The Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS

  • December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

    Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024

    Generative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024

  • December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

    Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDs

    Scale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput

  • November 30, 2023 30 Nov'23

    AWS debuts model evaluation tool in Bedrock

    The Model Evaluation tool in Bedrock will help organisations evaluate and test large language models that are best suited to their needs based on criteria like accuracy, toxicity and cost

  • November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

    Aerodyne taps AWS to power drone platform

    The Malaysia-based startup is running its Dronos platform on AWS to expand its footprint globally and support a variety of drone use cases, from agriculture seeding to cellular tower maintenance

  • November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

    Scope of Okta helpdesk breach widens to impact all users

    Okta has widened the scope of the October breach of its systems to include every customer that has used its helpdesk service, after new information came to light

  • November 28, 2023 28 Nov'23

    AWS sharpens focus in APAC

    AWS is doubling down on industry offerings and investing in cloud infrastructure and skills training, among other efforts, to tap growth opportunities in the region

  • November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

    ‘Excited’ finance firms pump money into digital technology

    Over three-quarters of finance firms are currently restricted in what they can spend on technology due to the global economic climate, but expect spending to resume next year

  • November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

    NHS England renews FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration hosting deal via G-Cloud for £1.67m

    NHS England has renewed its long-standing hosting and support contract for the FutureNHS platform with SME cloud provider Kahootz

  • November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

    Boomi doubles down on AI and automation

    Boomi executives talk up the company’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities and its growing traction in ANZ during a recent event in Sydney

  • November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

    World Wide Fund for Nature signs IT deal with Atos

    Global conservation organisation will harness latest technologies to improve ability to predict risks to natural environment

  • November 21, 2023 21 Nov'23

    Inside India’s datacentre boom

    India’s datacentre market is expected to surpass $10bn by 2028, but realising its full potential will require innovations in sustainability and improvements in connectivity

  • November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

    Cubbit DS3 Composer brings DIY cloud to object storage pool

    Cubbit customers can now build and configure S3-compatible clouds from unused capacity and offer MSP-grade services with high levels of resilience, security and data sovereignty

  • November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

    IT not ready for AI, Pure Storage survey finds

    Storage, compute and networking hardware won’t cope without upgrades, and that often means total IT infrastructure overhaul

  • November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

    Digital Edge secures green loan for South Korea datacentre

    The Singapore-based datacentre provider has secured its first green loan for its latest colocation facility in Incheon

  • November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

    How Gigamon is making its mark in deep observability

    Gigamon CEO Shane Buckley talks up the company’s ability to inspect encrypted network traffic for malicious activity, how it stands out with its deep observability capabilities and the tailwinds that are fuelling its growth

  • November 13, 2023 13 Nov'23

    Australia’s public cloud spending to hit A$23bn in 2024

    Spending on public cloud services in Australia will reach 50% of the total addressable market for the first time in 2024, according to Gartner

  • November 13, 2023 13 Nov'23

    Encrypted mail service Tuta says it was wrongly accused of being a front for intelligence services

    German encrypted email service Tuta, formerly known as Tutanota, has denied claims by a former Canadian police intelligence officer accused of passing secrets to criminals that it was compromised by intelligence services

  • November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

    How Village Roadshow modernised ITSM with cloud

    Australian theme park and cinema operator reduced ITSM costs by 60% to improve problem resolution and other outcomes from use of Freshworks' cloud-based ITSM service

  • November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

    Conflict of interest concerns raised over CMA's use of AWS UK public sector discount scheme

    Less than a month after the CMA confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of AWS preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services

  • November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

    Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report

    Organisations are struggling to secure their use of communications tools to share data with third-party partners and suppliers, and in the process are exposing themselves to heightened levels of risk, according to a report

  • November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

    SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations

    SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives

  • November 05, 2023 05 Nov'23

    AWS to open Malaysia cloud region in 2024

    Amazon Web Services’ new cloud region in Malaysia will open next year to meet the increased demand for cloud services and support digitisation efforts in the country

  • November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

    SAP lays out generative AI strategy

    SAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers

  • November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

    Cloud banking fintech unicorn cuts 50 staff

    UK fintech unicorn reduces its total staff by about 7% with sales and marketing roles taking the biggest hit.

  • November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

    Lloyds bank kicks off Hyderabad operation

    Lloyds Banking Group has opened its latest tech operation in Hyderabad, with plans to recruit around 600 IT experts

  • October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

    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

  • October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

    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

  • October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

    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

  • October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

    Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration

    S3-compliant object storage specialist will use new OSIS integration with VMware’s cloud management tool to target service providers that want to deliver regional cloud offers

  • October 16, 2023 16 Oct'23

    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

  • October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

    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

  • October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

    Pure offers Evergreen energy and rackspace cost guarantees

    Pure Storage will take upfront payments for power and rackspace and guarantee those for product lifecycles in its Evergreen One, Flex and Forever consumption purchasing models