Businesses evolving to cloud-enabled models

Nowadays, nobody buys anything outright in the subscription-based model while in the consumption-based model, users only pay for what they use. Because cloud technologies reduce...

Sarawak deploys digital surveillance solution to fight COVID-19

Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA) has announced the roll-out of the digital surveillance solution to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Sarawak, a state in...

Equinix invests US$74 million in fourth data centre in Singapore

Equinix has announced the opening of the company’s fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Singapore, known as SG4. With an initial investment...

APJ organisations manage 64% more data compared to last year

The Dell Technologies Global Data Protection Index 2020 Snapshot reveals that organisations in Asia Pacific and Japan on average are managing 64% more data...

AR/VR spend in APAC to hit US$31.2 billion by 2023: IDC

According to IDC, APAC spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to be $3.7 billion in 2019, an increase of 34.0%...

Remote working in the COVID-19 era creates security headaches

As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread around the globe and social distancing becomes the order of the day, businesses are increasingly initiating work-from-home policies – at...

Singapore is biggest spender on smart city moves in APAC

The Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan will account for one-third of global spending on smart cities initiatives throughout the 2019-23 forecast period, with US$65.5 billion...

The start of ubiquitous 5G

The union of two frontier technologies – 5G and edge computing — promises a monumental leap. That, at least, is what the telecommunications community...

NetApp acquires Talon Storage for enhanced cloud volumes

NetApp has acquired Talon Storage, a software-defined storage solutions that enables global enterprises to centralise and consolidate IT storage infrastructure to the public clouds. With...

The year “Speedy” data takes centre stage

It is no secret that digital transformation is in full swing in Asia Pacific, with IDC already having predicted that organizations in the region would...