In a sign of economic recovery despite the ongoing pandemic, global IT spending is expected to hit US$4.5 trillion in 2022, up 5.1 percent from 2021, according to Gartner. There are high expectations that digital […]
Category: Cloud
Boomi names new CEO
Boomi has appointed David Meredith to replace the retiring Chris McNabb as Chief Executive Officer effective January 31, 2022. He joins from Everbridge, where he held a similar position and let the company to rapid […]
Cloudflare expands firewall capabilities, introduces migration programme
Cloudflare is expanding its Zero Trust firewall capabilities to help companies secure their entire corporate network. With the new cloud firewall functionality, CIOs can better secure their entire corporate network, apply Zero Trust policies to […]
Informatica Cloud Data Marketplace delivers data democratisation
Informatica has announced the Cloud Data Marketplace that lets organisations share data, improve productivity and make more informed decisions. Cloud Data Marketplace allows onboarding of curated data assets from any source, across multi-cloud and hybrid […]
ForgeRock unlocks passwordless cloud migration
Moving to the cloud usually means more passwords are needed to authenticate and secure access. However, this is a major stumbling block for enterprises planning a cloud migration. New passwordless features in ForgeRock Identity Cloud […]
Hitachi Vantara reveals hybrid cloud data storage vision
Hitachi Vantara has outlined its vision to extend its storage virtualisation capabilities to deliver a distributed hybrid cloud data fabric. The new hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions will help organisations cost-effectively meet the demands of enterprise, […]
BT rolls out cloud solutions for financial services sector
BT has announced the BT Cloud Control for Financial Services portfolio of solutions to help those in the sector address the challenges of balancing risks and rewards of moving their applications and secure data to […]
Toku raises US$5m to enhance digital transformation offerings
Singapore-based Toku has completed a US$5 million Series A funding round backed by DX Ventures and existing investors such as Tembusu Partners and Neptune Invest Asia. The cloud communications provider will use the funding to […]
NTT launches private 5G network-as-a-service platform
NTT has launched the first globally available private LTE/5G network-as-a-service platform to helps enterprises leverage the benefits of private 5G to solve business problems and innovate. The NTT Private 5G (P5G) platform is based on […]
Zadara expands into Malaysia
Enterprise cloud service provider Zadara has set up base in Malaysia as part of its Southeast Asia expansion plans. It has also formed a strategic partnership with KH Datagate, which will see the rollout of […]
Acronis intros advanced protection pack for service providers
Acronis has announced the new Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud advanced protection pack, which includes Advanced File Sync and Share, for service providers. Building on the file-sharing capabilities in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Advanced File Sync […]
Informatica expands APAC footprint with Azure
Informatica has launched its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform on Microsoft Azure to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region. The move follows Informatica and Azure’s collaboration which grew 109 percent year-on-year in 2020. […]
Palo Alto Networks develops firewall using NVIDIA DPU
Palo Alto Networks has introduced the first virtual next-generation firewall (NGFW) to be accelerated by a DPU to boost the network defence of data centres. NVIDIA’s BlueField data processing unit (DPU) is used to accelerate […]
NVIDIA gives enterprises leg up with instant AI infrastructure
Building an AI infrastructure can be a daunting endeavour. But help is at hand with the NVIDIA AI LaunchPad to give enterprises a leg up in their AI efforts. Delivered through hybrid-cloud providers, the comprehensive […]
Baidu targets carbon neutrality by 2030
Baidu aims to use advanced technology and innovative mechanisms to minimise its ecological footprint to achieve carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030. Starting from 2020, the China search giant is eyeing to fulfill carbon […]
Accenture to buy umlaut
Accenture has agreed to acquire German engineering consultancy and services firm umlaut. The acquisition should boost Accenture’s deep engineering capabilities to help companies use digital technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and cloud to transform […]
Informatica tightens Snowflake integration for easier migration
Informatica is making it easier for enterprises to move data to Snowflake through its Intelligent Data Management Cloud. With the tighter integration, data scientists and developers can scale analytics and cloud applications with ease and […]
Fast production AI scaling with NVIDIA Base Command Platform
NVIDIA kicked off its Computex activities by unveiling the NVIDIA Base Command Platform that lets enterprises move their AI projects swiftly from prototypes to production. The platform is designed for large-scale, multi-user and multi-team AI […]
Thales announces multi-cloud data security solutions
Thales has announced data protection solutions for Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Each cloud provider has its own unique data protection mechanisms and key management offerings, making multi-cloud data protection a complex […]
ForgeRock expands Google Cloud partnership
ForgeRock has availed its Identity Cloud platform on Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling deeper product integration, unified billing and an expanded relationship to better serve customers’ needs globally. Joint customers can now integrate the powerful identity […]
NVIDIA unveils first cloud-native, multi-tenant supercomputer
At GTC21, NVIDIA unveiled the next-generation NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, the world’s first cloud-native, multi-tenant AI supercomputer. It features BlueField-2 data processing units that offload, accelerate and isolate users’ data to provide users with secure connections […]
80% of IT leaders to adopt cloud-based IAM
Four in five global IT decision-makers have already adopted, or plan to adopt or expand, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) initiatives over the next two years, according to a ForgeRock and Google Cloud commissioned […]
Informatica accelerates with NVIDIA
Informatica has boosted its serverless, Spark-based cloud data integration engine with NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark. The accelerated computing power will give users access to end-to-end machine learning operations capabilities by operationalising machine learning […]
IBM gets Taos boost
IBM has boosted its cloud migration and transformation offerings with the acquisition of Taos. Taos is a cloud professional and managed services provider with more than 30 years of experience with leading brands across technology, […]
Informatica rolls out cloud-native CX solution
Informatica has introduced Customer 360 SaaS, an enterprise-scale cloud-native solution that helps enterprises deliver customer experience (CX) in a post-pandemic, digital-first, cloud world. Based on the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services platform, the solution provides all-in-one […]
Cognizant to acquire Servian
Cognizant has agreed to acquire Australia’s Servian, a privately-held enterprise transformation consultancy specialising in data analytics, artificial intelligence, digital services, experience design, and cloud. This marks the company’s 10th digital-focused acquisition since January 2020, highlighting […]
Genesys sets up digital business unit
Genesys has launched its new Genesys Digital business unit to help companies address the latest technology trends and consumers’ ever-changing needs in the digital landscape. As lines between marketing, sales and service are blurring for […]
Dassault Systems buys NuoDB
Dassault Systèmes has acquired NuoDB, which provides a cloud-native distributed SQL database that capitalises on the competitive advantages of the cloud, with on demand scalability, continuous availability and transactional consistency, and is built for mission […]
NXP and AWS in connected vehicles collaboration
NXP Semiconductors and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are teaming up on a secure, edge-to-cloud compute solution for next-generation vehicles. Data is driving vehicle innovations that deliver valuable insights and generate new revenue streams. Expanded access […]
Netskope opens data centre in South Korea
Netskope has established a data centre in South Korea to better service its customers in North Asia. Expanding the Netskope NewEdge network to Seoul lets the security cloud provider improve coverage for its services with […]
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