Without Barriers across nine countries in Asia Pacific

Increasing employability of female technical talent and nurture entrepreneurs across Asia Pacific. Across nine Asia Pacific countries Code; Without Barriers to help close the gender gap in the region’s fast-growing cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology sectors was launched by Microsoft and 13 other countries. The program provides a platform to…

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Warburg Pincus expands its technology group

Former president of Cloud SAP will help portfolio companies accelerate digital transformation. Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor, has appointed Brian Duffy as a Senior Adviser in its Technology group. In his role, Brian will work with Warburg Pincus and its portfolio companies to accelerate innovation and digital transformation and…

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Foundational cloud services will enable the digital-first strategies

Driving competitive development across the whole cloud market. The way organisations use cloud is moving to the next level of maturity, spurring adoption of a cross-functional set of services to drive innovation in a digital-first economy. These foundational cloud services (FCS) for compute, data, and app frameworks will drive competitive…

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Worldwide “whole cloud” spending to reach $US1.3T by 2025

Entire industries want to intelligently leverage data. Over the past decade, cloud computing has become the foundation for the delivery of mobile and content services as well as an alternative to traditional enterprise computing environments. As businesses pivot to a digital-first economy, cloud will continue to play an ever greater,…

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Accelerated adoption drives new cloud buying trends across ASEAN

Organisational-led initiatives, user experience and security top drivers. The accelerated cloud adoption in the last 18 months across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is changing enterprises’ buying behaviour and solution criteria when considering new cloud services, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. ‘2021 ASEAN Cloud…

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APAC businesses blame cyber attacks on unknown assets

Complex challenges faced in securing networks and systems for remote workers in the post-pandemic era. A new poll by MIT Technology Review Insights, in association with Palo Alto Networks, uncovers the complex challenges Asia-Pacific companies face in securing networks and systems for remote workers in the post-pandemic era.  In this new cybersecurity landscape, conducting…

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Four trends shaping the future of public cloud global end-user spending

Public cloud services expected to exceed $US480B in 2022. Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities, accelerating growth across all segments in the public cloud services market, according to Gartner, Inc. The four trends are: cloud ubiquity, regional cloud ecosystems,…

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Victorian council implements cloud based digital modernisation program

Lifting community experience, primes for extra innovation. Manningham Council in Melbourne’s North East is where the city meets the country – it serves a diverse community of around 130,000 residents and ratepayers. As part of a cloud based digital modernisation program, the Council has deployed Dynamics 365 to serve both…

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