Microsoft Research Asia lab launch COVID Insights website

Website is intended to be a resource for those interested in analysing data related to the pandemic With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact communities around the world, researchers everywhere are fighting hard in the hopes of gradually understanding the mystery of the COVID-19​ virus through the most advanced technologies…

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Ep 7 – Living The Life In Tech – Peter Smith, Chief Information Officer, Mission Australia

In this episode we are joined by Peter Smith, Chief Information Officer, Mission Australia Peter talks about the MA Connect project which was an initiative and a key part of Mission Australia’s Digital Transformation project and the significant level of complexity and issues they needed to address, while being able to…

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Cloud services demand will remain heightened after COVID-19

Entered a new era of cloud modernisation COVID-19 has unexpectedly launched a new era of cloud modernization, found GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Gregg Willsky principal analyst at GlobalData said for many enterprises, COVID-19 has simplified the decision to adopt a cloud-based solution. “COVID-19 has suddenly made it evident…

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AWS launches managed AI services globally

Five APAC countries can now access the service Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), a managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions. Amazon A2I is available in Singapore, Tokyo,…

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Cyber threats rapidly expanding

APAC organisations suffering threat fatigue Since COVID-19 began having a substantial impact on working practices, companies like Cisco have noticed an increased “uptake” of “security products”. Steve Moros, director of cybersecurity for Cisco Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) told CIO Tech Asia organisations have realised how vulnerable their data and security…

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