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Apr, 2025 : ASEAN ICT Spending to Reach $171 Billion this Year
📅 - The ASEAN region is experiencing a strategic evolution ininformation and communications technology (ICT)investment, with total spending expected to reach USD 171 billion by 2025. The IDC Worldwide ICT Spending Guide reports ICT expenditures in Southeast Asia growing at a 5.8% CAGR through 2028, as businesses focus on resilience and measurable returns to navigate evolving economic and technological landscapes.
Organizations in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are recalibrating their technology strategies to adapt to changing economic conditions. While ICT spending remains substantial, the focus has shifted away from rapid expansion toward strategic [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - INTROSERV Provides Server Infrastructure for Hungarian Online Cinema - A Hungarian company specializing in professional video content translation has successfully launched an online cinema platform to stream localized movies, series, and anime. Context and Client Objectives With global streaming services dominating entertainment, smaller languages like Hungarian face limited access to localized content. Despite a potential audience of 15 million Hungarian speakers worldwide, few platforms cater to this market. The client aimed to bridge this gap by launching a streaming service delivering high-quality translated movies, series, and anime. Their goals included serving global Hungarian audiences, ensuring stable performance as demand grows, and preserving [...]
📅 - Delinea Launches Cloud-Native Security to Support AI - The improvements will boost network defenses with comprehensive, AI-driven security controls and make it simpler for businesses to find, manage, and secure AI agents, systems, and infrastructure.
The risk and complexity of managing AI are increasing along with its adoption. The increasing issue of machine identity sprawl is highlighted by Delinea Labs researchers, who estimate that there are currently 46 machine identities for every human identity in an organizational network. By offering built-in safeguards to secure AI and secure with AI without compromising compliance or sacrificing productivity, the Delinea Platform's new and future Machine and AI solution capabilities will assist [...]
📅 - Datadog Acquires Metaplane for Data Observability - Cloud-native monitoring and security platform Datadog has acquired data observability startup Metaplane as it deepens its investment in full-stack visibility across applications and data infrastructure. While the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, the acquisition marks a significant step in Datadogs expansion into the data observability space.
It would reinforce Datadogs role in supporting enterprise data operations alongside application performance and security monitoring.
Metaplane offers an end-to-end data observability platform that provides advanced monitoring capabilities, including column-level lineage and machine learning-powered anomaly detection. Its tools are [...]
📅 - Lumen Powers Kentucky Derby with Network-as-a-Service - In anticipation of the 151st Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs Racetrack has partnered with Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) to implement Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) capabilities at the racetrack. Its aimed at improving connectivity for hundreds of thousands of spectators, media outlets, and mutuel operations throughout Derby Week.
"Speed matters - and not just on the track," said Mike Wood, Senior IT Director, while organizing one of the world's biggest sports events. "We can quickly put high-capacity, secure connections online using Network-as-a-Service technology to enable anything from guest Wi-Fi and vendor assistance to media coverage. Behind-the-scenes creativity like that is what [...]
📅 - Belltown Power Expands into Data Centers, Six New Sites in North Texas - Belltown Power Texas, a renewable energy developer, has announced plans to build six new data center locations across the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, supported by a total load request of 1,435 megawatts. Strategically situated near key transmission hubs, the newdata centersites are positioned to offer fast interconnection options and scalability, particularly for hyperscale and AI-focused businesses seeking reliable, rapid-access power solutions.
With over eight years of experience in developing utility-scale solar and battery storage projects in North Texas - where more than three gigawatts are either operational or under construction - Belltown Power Texas would bring a strong [...]
📅 - IonQ, EPB Forge $22M Deal to Make Chattanooga a U.S. Quantum Hub - Energy and communications provider EPB of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and quantum computing firm IonQ have announced a strategic partnership to establish a new quantum innovation hub in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This collaboration is set to position Chattanooga as a U.S. leader in quantum computing and networking, reinforcing Tennessees emerging status as a center for quantum innovation.
At the heart of this initiative is the installation of IonQs Forte Enterprise quantum computer at the EPB Quantum Center. The system will support both EPBs Quantum Network and IonQs broader quantum initiatives, making Chattanooga the first city in the United States to host a combined quantum computing and [...]