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Asian Stories

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China cloud market turns to compliance & resilience

Regulation, resilience and AI are now shaping Chinese companies' cloud choices as hybrid models dominate and vendor risk rises.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last week

Global Stories

IT Department stories

Manufacturing

Saicon acquires Pragmatyc to boost AIoT capabilities

The deal gives Saicon more specialist talent as enterprises race to link AI projects with cloud, data and physical operations.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last week

Digital Transformation

UK mid-market AI pilots stall despite high confidence

Weak data and governance are leaving most UK mid-market AI projects stuck in pilots, despite 91% of firms saying they are ready to scale.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week

Software-as-a-Service

Cloudhouse launches outage stress test amid AI risks

Businesses face greater outage exposure as cloud, automation and AI add hidden dependencies, especially when summer holidays thin IT teams.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week

Data Privacy

Australians share more health reports under new rules

Patients are gaining faster access to test results as default uploads lifted weekly sharing of pathology and imaging reports to more than 5 million.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

Health Technologies

Melbourne hospitals first in JAPAC to deploy FHIR dosing

Manual dose entry has been cut at three Melbourne hospitals, which are the first Oracle Health client in JAPAC to fully deploy a FHIR app.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week

Unified Communications

Vonage launches Okta authentication suite to curb fraud

Enterprises using Okta may gain stronger checks against SIM swap fraud and inflated traffic as Vonage packages SMS and voice authentication.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last week

Firewalls

Cisco signs network deal with The R&A for golf events

The deal will give fans and broadcasters at The Open faster connectivity as nearly 1,000 access points are installed across the course.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

Data Protection

Scality & WEKA expand France AI support partnership

French organisations deploying AI workloads will now get local sales and French-language support as Scality takes the front line for WEKA's joint stack.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Malware

German SMEs face lower cyber losses, but risks stay high

Average losses from successful attacks have fallen sharply, but one in three German SMEs says a major breach could still threaten its existence.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Last week

Stories from Other Regions

IT Department stories

Data Protection

StorONE version 4.0 lets active arrays power tiering

Existing flash arrays can now be reused for tiering, as StorONE aims to cut reliance on scarce new hardware and lower storage costs.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Digital Transformation

Irish firms spend €667,000 on zombie projects yearly

A lack of clear IT planning is leaving Irish large firms with a €667,000 annual drag from projects that should have been stopped.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week

IT Automation

PDQ adds endpoint management tools for Windows, Mac

IT teams can now manage Windows and Mac devices from one platform, with new tools aimed at closing patch gaps and speeding enrolment.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last week

Data Analytics

GitHub data shows Australia's global open-source rise

Australia's developers are contributing more widely abroad, with GitHub data showing a 16% quarterly rise in cross-border open-source collaboration.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Robotics

Rubrik joins health AI coalition amid cyber resilience push

Healthcare providers face added pressure to secure AI systems and patient data as Rubrik joins a coalition of nearly 3,000 members.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Semiconductors

NVIDIA unveils Vera CPU for AI agent data centre workloads

AI agents could run faster and keep graphics processors busier as Nvidia's Vera chip targets the bottlenecks that slow data centre workloads.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last week

Digital Transformation

Canadian AI consortium launches: Telus, Scotiabank partners

Regulated firms in Canada can now share AI controls and intellectual property, with the first system already handling more than two trillion tokens a month.

By Jake MacAndrew • 3 min read • Last week