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NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, and Elastio are helping enterprises enhance their cyber resilience with a layered defence that extends from production storage into recovery data. According to NetApp, security teams must be ready to address threats at every layer of their technology stack, including advanced ransomware. Advanced ransomware is engineered to evade prevention tools, moving quietly through production, staying below detection thresholds, becoming part of backup data before any alert is triggered. "As we migrated our infrastructure, ensuring we had the right level of backup security and assurance was non-negotiable,” said Marc Crudgington, VP IT Infrastructure and CISO, Crane Worldwide Logistics, which has a presence in Asia. “Elastio provided continuous inspection of our backups from day one - giving us confidence in our ability to recover. That’s the standard we hold ourselves to." NetApp and Elastio are embedding Elastio’s Provable Recovery...

Lotte Rental, a South Korean car rental company, has selected Rimini Street to provide support for its Oracle and SAP systems. A leader in the rental industry for over 40 years, Lotte Rental operates 300 branches across Korea and subsidiaries in Thailand and Vietnam. To drive its vision of accelerating growth and staying ahead in the mobility industry, the company restructured its IT systems and invested in next-generation technology to power innovation and support its ambitious growth plans.  The company also began a company-wide cost-optimisation initiative to identify and eliminate factors impacting profitability. By selecting Rimini Support for its mission-critical SAP and Oracle systems, Lotte Rental benefited from expert support from a dedicated Primary Support Engineer, backed by a global team of ERP experts and engineers.  The move also yielded savings of over 50% in total annual support fees. These efficiencies and savings realised by partnering with Rimini Street...

Global AI security provider TrendAI has found that organisations worldwide are pushing ahead with AI deployment despite known security and compliance risks.  The new global study surveyed 3,700 business and IT decision makers, with 200 from Singapore. It found that 67% of respondents from Singapore have felt pressured to approve AI despite security concerns, with one in nine describing those concerns as “extreme” but overridden to keep pace with competitors and internal demand. David Ng, MD – Singapore, Philippines & Indonesia, TrendAI said: “Organisations are not lacking awareness of risk, they’re lacking the conditions to manage it. When deployment is driven by competitive pressure rather than governance maturity, you create a situation where AI is embedded into critical systems without the controls needed to manage it safely. This research reinforces our focus on helping organisations drive solid business outcomes with AI while still managing business risk.” The ...

NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, and Commvault, which provides unified resilience at enterprise scale, have partnered to deliver an integrated solution for enterprise data protection and cyber resilience.  “This alliance reinforces NetApp and Commvault’s leadership in the rapidly evolving cyber resilience and data protection market,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp. “Together we’re helping customers make their infrastructure intelligent and secure so they have the confidence that their data is always available, protected, and recoverable—no matter where it lives—while expanding our joint go-to-market reach and driving growth in a high-demand segment.”  The alliance combines Commvault’s resilience, protection, and recovery capabilities with NetApp’s enterprise-grade data platform with built-in intelligence and AI-driven ransomware detection. The solution enables resilience, security, and rapid recovery for customers across on...

SentinelOne, the AI security provider, has unveiled new AI security offerings that it says gives defenders a decisive advantage today. Covering both security for AI and the use of AI to automate and transform security operations, the new offerings build on SentinelOne’s AI security portfolio. In the race to embrace AI, AI has itself become the new attack surface and primary source of risk, SentinelOne said. In a January 2026 forecast, Gartner has already projected that AI cybersecurity spend will grow at an 73.9% CAGR from 2024-2029, more than double that of AI spend overall. Prompt AI Agent Security Prompt AI Agent Security provides a new, real-time discovery and governance control plane for AI agents and agentic workflows. It takes advantage of the same Autonomous Security Intelligence that powers SentinelOne across endpoint, cloud, and identity, extending that proprietary AI and automation into the agentic layer. The result is full visibility, risk assessment, and policy enforcem...

Everpure, the company changing storage and data management, has announced new capabilities for Portworx Enterprise to support organisations running enterprise-level virtual machines (VMs) and containers in cloud, hybrid and on-premise environments.  The company said these updates allow organisations to embrace modern virtualisation, accelerating provisioning, simplifying automation, and saving time through a proven, enterprise-grade platform which has already migrated over a hundred thousand VM volumes to Kubernetes. Organisations that rely on virtual machines are increasingly re-evaluating their virtualisation strategy and moving to Kubernetes to run critical applications, Everpure explained. According to the Portworx 2026 Voice of Kubernetes Report ,  56% believe backup, disaster recovery, and high availability are the most critical capabilities for any new virtualisation platform.  The report also said that 71% of organisations plan to modernise and/or migrate their ...

Source: Blaize. Blaize and Nokia are progressing their joint validation and ecosystem engagement across Asia Pacific. Blaize Holdings, a global provider of programmable, energy-efficient AI computing is going to the next phase in a collaboration with Nokia. As part of this new phase, the Blaize and the Nokia Network Innovation Lab in Singapore are advancing a joint reference architecture — a pre-integrated, validated solution framework that combines Blaize’s AI platform with Nokia’s networking and infrastructure capabilities. The reference is intended to support real-world deployment scenarios across edge and data centre environments, providing a foundation for evaluation, integration, and ecosystem collaboration. These initiatives are part of ongoing engagement efforts to evaluate how hybrid AI architectures can be applied to real-world environments where latency, power efficiency, and scalability are critical. “This next phase reflects continued progress in our collaboration with ...