Credit: FPT Software FPT Software has acquired Intertec International's IT services division as part of plans to strengthen its North American nearshore delivery capabilities.  With the expanded investment, FPT Software aims to meet the demand for agile software engineering and bridge the timezone difference while continuing to leverage and build upon Intertec's delivery centres and operational experience in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Mexico. 'Each M&A deal bears good fruit to FPT. We expect this acquisition to resonate greatly with FPT's goal of expanding business operations globally, especially in the English-speaking markets,' said Dr Truong Gia Binh, chairman of FPT Corporation.

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Aaron White (Nutanix) Credit: Nutanix ST Engineering and Nutanix have signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deliver hybrid cloud solutions and offer training curriculums for institutions of higher learning in Singapore. Under the MoU, the partners will collaborate to jointly deliver a solution aimed at meeting the operational demands of organisations. The partners aim to integrate uses for both public and private clouds, tackle data storage, multi-cloud management, applications hosting and disaster recovery, while aligning with security standards.

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Credit: Dreamstime Singapore's defence R&D organisation DSO National Laboratories (DSO) has partnered with Red Hat to develop new DevSecOps practices and edge computing deployments on the vendor's open hybrid cloud portfolio. The collaboration will facilitate a knowledge exchange and support DSO's DevSecOps efforts, which is an IT approach that combines development, operations and system security practices. DSO will adopt Red Hat's hybrid cloud solution and aims to improve the integration and interoperability of its systems.

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Karan Bajwa (Google Cloud) Credit: Google Cloud Google Cloud has unveiled plans to launch new regions in Malaysia and Thailand, bolstering high-performance capabilities as the battle for cloud supremacy heats up in Southeast Asia.Despite no specific go-live date at this stage, the move is designed to deliver enhanced cloud services to help organisations maintain low latency while strengthening security, data residency and storage levels amid a tightening of compliance standards across the region.

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Cheah Wai Kit (Lumen Technologies) Credit: Lumen Technologies Lumen Technologies has partnered with security awareness training provider KnowBe4 to drive cyber awareness and strengthen ‘security culture' across organisations in the Asia Pacific region. As part of the partnership, customers can tap on KnowBe4's solution, the Cybersecurity Security Awareness Training and Phishing Test Campaigns, as a managed service. They aim to enable customers to identify gaps in security knowledge across the organisation and train and prepare employees to handle cybersecurity risks.

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L-R: Ge Jianbao (CMI), Gao Tongqing (CMI), Vikram Sinha (Indosat), M. Danny Buldansyah (Indosat) Credit: Indosat Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and China Mobile International (CMI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen capabilities in the fields of communications, data centres and infrastructure technology. The partners aim to collaborate and deliver competitive digital solutions that can better serve the needs of customers in Indonesia as well as globally. Indosat and CMI have also agreed to jointly explore strategies to expand their businesses into new and existing markets and monetise the 5G market.

https://channelasia.tech/article/708618/indosat-partners-china-mobile-international-boost-telco-business/

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Ng Kuo Pin (NCS) Credit: NCS NCS announced strategic partnerships with Mandiant – now part of Google Cloud – and Assurity Trusted Solutions to strengthen its cyber security services in Singapore and the wider ASEAN region. With Mandiant, NCS aims to offer solutions and services in the areas of security validation, threat hunting, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) and CISO advisory. NCS and Mandiant will also jointly conduct research and development on generative AI for cyber security and explore opportunities to develop solutions for cyber risk management in the AI (artificial intelligence) space.

https://channelasia.tech/article/708683/ncs-partners-mandiant-assurity-boost-cyber-security-services/

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Credit: Dreamstime Vietnam's Sacombank is leveraging Temenos Infinity in a bid to elevate its digital banking system and deliver a 'seamless' omni-channel experience for its retail and business customers.In line with its 'customer-centric' business strategy and focus on delivering financial products and services to individual and corporate customers, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, Sacombank is looking to utilise Temenos Infinity in reimagining its customer engagement and meet growing demand for digital products and services as well as 'fast, frictionless' customer experience.

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Credit: Dreamstime Infosys, in partnership with Singapore statutory board, Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA), under the Ministry of Communications and Information, has pledged to hire 300 Singaporean workers over the next three years across a variety of roles.The digital services and consulting provider seeks to strengthen its presence in the city-state while supporting the Singapore Government's ongoing programs to create employment opportunities for freshers and mid-career professionals.

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Credit: Dreamstime Tech Data has announced the launch of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) at its Asia Pacific centre of excellence (CoE).The expanded partnership between the global distributor and cloud vendor aims to support partners' and customers' plans to boost their hybrid data capabilities and is aligned with Tech Data's ongoing strategy of driving hybrid cloud motion in the region.'The enterprise cloud landscape is fast evolving where the onus is on providing customers with the highest quality of service on managing IT infrastructures and applications,' said Bennett Wong, vice president of Advanced Solutions across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) at Tech Data.

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Credit: 995102590 iStock When you think of cutting-edge technology, it's hard to look past the idea of the digital human as at the very edge of innovation. The metaverse has become a major global phenomenon, and one-in-four people will spend at least one hour per day in the metaverse by 2026. It is little wonder that the appetite for avatars and virtual beings is accelerating in kind. Indeed, Emergen Research suggests that the market for applications of digital people will exceed over $527 billion by 2030 , at a CAGR of 46.

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Alfred Goh (NCS) Credit: NCS NCS has set up a new enterprise strategic business group (SBG) and appointed industry veteran Alfred Goh as managing partner to lead the unit with effect from 16 September.Reporting to Ng Kuo Pin -- CEO of NCS -- Goh is tasked with bringing together NCS' healthcare, transport, financial, industrial and commercial client service units as well as service organisations like applications and infrastructure to accelerate the provider's growth momentum in the enterprise space.

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Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Women in ICT Awards 2022 - Meet the winners Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments James Henderson (Channel Asia) Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments James Henderson (Channel Asia) Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments James Henderson (Channel Asia) Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments James Henderson (Channel Asia) Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments James Henderson (Channel Asia) Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments James Henderson (Channel Asia) Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Cherry Yumul (Channel Asia) presents D&I Champion awards Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Logicalis wins D&I Champion - Company (Partner) award Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Logicalis wins D&I Champion - Company (Partner) award Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Dell Technologies wins D&I Champion - Company (Vendor) award Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Dell Technologies wins D&I Champion - Company (Vendor) award Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Dell Technologies wins D&I Champion - Company (Vendor) award Credit: Channel Asia / The Digital Moments Naomi Rajendram (Accenture) wins D&I Champion - Individual (Partner) award.

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Credit: Solarwinds Organizations everywhere and in every industry face increasingly challenging digital transformations. According to IDC , digital transformation and cloud adoption have accelerated significantly in the past two years. By 2027, IDC predicts 70 percent of organizations will have invested in specialized cloud-based performance-intensive computing environments to gain agility, scale, and faster business insights. However, according to Deloitte's Technology Trends 2023 report, enterprises feel overwhelmed by the multitude of clouds they are using.

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Slideshow The entire ASEAN ecosystem came together under the Channel Asia roof at the St Regis in Singapore to celebrate female excellence at the Women in ICT Awards (WIICTA) in 2023. The market's leading gender diversity and inclusion (D&I) awards program set the industry benchmark for female achievement and accomplishment. Credit: Channel Asia Credit: Channel Asia Credit: Channel Asia Credit: Channel Asia

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