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Regional healthcare services provider Health Management International (HMI Medical) has accelerated digital transformation initiatives across key corporate functions with Workday. This collaboration marks a significant expansion of Workday’s presence in the healthcare sector, with HMI Medical as its first customer in Singapore’s healthcare industry.  Headquartered in Singapore, HMI Medical manages over 2,800 staff across Southeast Asia. As the group expands its healthcare portfolio through growth and partnerships, it is investing in digitalisation to unify operations, strengthen agility, and support its long-term ambition to deliver trusted, high-quality care to patients across the region. To support this next phase of growth, HMI Medical has partnered with Workday to unify its systems and enhance operational agility across the organisation.  To strengthen the foundation for growth, HMI Medical will deploy Workday’s AI-enabled enterprise cloud suite, covering human capital, fi...

By Ali Pourshahid, Chief Engineering Officer, Solace Source: Solace. Pourshahid. Remember the early pitfalls of microservices? Point-to-point integrations, tight coupling disguised as modularity, cascading failures. Sound familiar? Technology has a tendency to repeat the same architectural implementation missteps across different developments. We saw this clearly during the initial phases of the microservices era, and we're witnessing it again today as organisations rush to integrate agentic AI into business use cases. For agentic AI to bring business benefits, agents need to hang loose in an event-driven architecture (EDA) that enables agents to evolve independently, allowing different teams to build and deploy specialised agents without the baggage of complex dependencies.  Early microservices architectures relied heavily on synchronous, point-to-point communication. Service A called Service B, which called Service C, creating intricate webs of dependencies. What appeared to be ...

Source: Report landing page . Gigamon's respondents in various countries have seen an increase in attacks targeting their AI and large language model (LLM) deployments. Australia registered the largest increase at 56%. Gigamon, a deep observability provider, has released research revealing how global CISOs are reshaping 2026 cybersecurity strategies as they seek to effectively secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure in the AI era. More than 200 global CISOs surveyed across Australia, France, Germany, Singapore, the UK, and the US are shifting how they manage data, secure AI applications, and evolve their SecOps teams. The CISO Insights: Recalibrating Risk in the Age of AI report reveals that as networks become more complex and AI accelerates digital transformation and intensifies cyberattacks, data visibility and quality have become mission critical to defending hybrid cloud infrastructure. Nearly six in 10 (58%) have seen more AI-powered attacks, and half said their large l...

How can the public sector support enterprise growth? Dean Chang (DC), Specialist, Taipei City Government Hi-Tech Promotion Center, Department of Economic Development (DOED), Taiwan explains.  Source: DOED. Chang. Q : How can innovation at the  Taipei City Government  also benefit the industry?  DC : The Taipei City Government is actively integrating artificial intelligence into various public services, including:  ● Smart customer service: The Taipei Pass app and the 1999 citizen hotline have implemented AI voice and text recognition systems, reducing response times and enhancing citizen satisfaction.  ● Traffic management: AI analyses real-time traffic footage and signal controls to optimise vehicle flow and pedestrian safety. ● AI intelligent recognition: Using AI technology to automatically detect illegal garbage dumping, automatically generating violation clips, significantly reduces the manpower needed to manually review surveillance footage.  ...

NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, has strengthened its enterprise-grade data platform for AI innovation. As the era of AI shifts from initial pilots to mission-critical agentic applications, AI-ready data on modern enterprise-grade data infrastructure delivers the results needed for AI-driven businesses, NetApp said. To accelerate modern AI workloads, new capabilities include: - NetApp AFX, an enterprise-grade disaggregated all-flash storage system built for demanding AI workloads. NetApp has poistioned the system as a foundation for AI factories. It is certified storage for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputing and powered by NetApp ONTAP , NetApp's storage operating system.  AFX delivers the same robust data management and built-in cyber resilience that NetApp is known for, along with secure multitenancy and seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments. AFX is designed for linear performance, scaling up to 128 nodes with TBps of bandwidth, e...

Native Google Workspace documents such as Google Docs and Google Sheets  and Google’s ChromeOS are not impacted by ransomware, but it can be a persistent threat for other file formats like PDF documents or Microsoft Office documents, Google said.  Source: Google Cloud. Users see this notification in Google Drive for Desktop when ransomware has been detected on their device, automatically pausing file syncing to the cloud. Google Cloud is thus enhancing Google Drive for Desktop with AI-powered ransomware detection and intervention to automatically stop file syncing, and allow users to easily restore files with a few clicks. Google Cloud explained that ransomware has largely been treated as an antivirus issue: solutions typically seek out potentially malicious code before it is activated, and block it from entering an IT system. But if novel ransomware bypasses traditional antivirus protection, organisation can be compromised without any fallback mitigations.  This is part...

Microsoft Windows 10 support has ended on October 14, 2025. Released in 2015, the operating system (OS) was in use by over 1 billion people across 200 countries by 2020.  A statement on Microsoft's Singapore website states that there will no longer be free software updates, security fixes or technical assistance. "Your PC will still work, but we recommend moving to Windows 11, " the company said.  Microsoft positions  Windows 11 as a more modern, secure, and efficient computing experience. If devices do not meet the technical requirements to run on Windows 11, the company recommends that they be replaced with something Windows 11 -compatible. Businesses can also enroll in the  Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10, but that will only protect Windows 10 devices up to a year after October 14, 2025. TeamViewer, a provider of digital workplace solutions, revealed that over 40% of global endpoints that recently received support via a TeamViewe...