COVID-19 lockdown measures updated for those dealing with technology. Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM), together with Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) and National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), has updated the workplace safe management measures and requirements that employers and businesses will need to put in place. In May Singapore returned…
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Vital market for enterprises seeking sustainable growth. . Digital infrastructure company Equinix has expanded Equinix Fabric with the addition of four leading network service providers (NSPs) in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to deliver connectivity into Greater China. With the recent extension of Platform Equinix, digital leaders will be able to…
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Increasing the concentration of data with one data centre provider. AusTender information reveals yet another Government Department has selected the same, single provider that already holds 80 per cent of the value of Government data centre contacts. The Department of Home Affairs has followed a long line of recent Federal…
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Virtual stagnation in the market for enterprise-owned data centre equipment. Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services continued to ramp up aggressively in 2020, growing by 35 per cent to reach almost US$130 billion. Meanwhile enterprise spending on data centre hardware and software dropped by 6 per cent to under US$90…
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The global data network has proven to be quite resilient, able to cope with the digital step change the economy took. Demand for data infrastructure was already sky-high before 2020 but the pandemic led to an additional surge. As people go more online than ever before and this trend will…
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Many plans to ditch traditional datacentres for fully integrated hybrid cloud IT environments in the next five years. A recently released study has revealed that 69 per cent of Singapore enterprises expect to run an integrated hybrid cloud technology environment in the next five years, dropping traditional datacentres altogether. According to…
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This includes the goal to create a hyper-scale data centre with an expected investment of RM15 billion. The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) welcomes the launch of the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDIGITAL) that YAB Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced last week. The agency is excited about this initiative and…
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Data centre operators and major services held fast throughout the troubled, early days of 2020 onward. Data Centres, once an afterthought for global enterprises, are now a cornerstone of the information economy, and well over $100 billion has poured into the asset class over the past decade, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s Global…
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Emergence of a new business environment, cloud service providers and video conferencing service providers. The APAC data centre market share has been witnessing exceptional growth since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has increased the access to internet-related services aided by lockdowns and restrictions imposed by government agencies across…
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The region has recorded a significant uptick in digital services adoption, including the emergence of two new fields, healthtech and edtech. COVID-19 brought significant disruption to the global economy, and with it came permanent changes to the jobs landscape. Across Southeast Asia, many businesses and workers continue to navigate the…
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