Aimed to stimulate Japan’s economic growth. Japan plans to drive mass-scale digitisation across the country in support of its Society 5.0 vision and towards an inclusive recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic. The program will be conducted in collaboration with Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) Program. Takuya Hirai Minister of…
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BP looks to quantum networks and remote working for sustainability
Dedicated to becoming a net neutral company by 2050 Oil and gas company, BP has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance the use of quantum computing in the energy industry. By joining the IBM Quantum Network as an Industry Partner, BP will have access to IBM’s quantum expertise…
Read MoreMixed reality for New Zealand energy supplier
Aiming to reimagine energy during a full country lockdown Genesis Energy operates 1800megawatts (MW) of hydro, thermal, and wind-based power stations across New Zealand’s North and South Islands, providing electricity to around 500,000 customers. Maintaining these complex, geographically diverse infrastructure assets typically requires specialised engineers to fly between sites to…
Read MoreFramework needed to meet digital resilience
Technology can support the entire organisation through the different stages of any business crisis. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, resiliency has become a business priority. But traditional approaches struggle to integrate business resiliency with the digital environment in which companies increasingly operate. A recently report from IDC presents…
Read MoreITRS Roundtable: Modelling your digital transformations into the Hybrid and Distributed Cloud
Sponsored content: Thursday, 25th February 2021, Asia Today’s complex IT environments make maintaining ‘the always-on’ availability more challenging than ever before, even as IT has become central to most business operations. Maintaining uninterrupted business operations has become more complicated as IT environments involve a complex mixture of hybrid and cloud…
Read MoreAsia’s digital technology hiring landscape in 2021
FIs remain vigilant towards remote working risks and take pre-emptive steps to mitigate them. During 2020 Asia’s traditional revenue streams were hampered, resulting in salary and recruitment slowdowns, and a new working normal was imposed. As businesses turned to the latest technological advancements in order to counterbalance the effects of…
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