Agent Computers: Pay once for cloud-grade intelligence
By Alexey Navolokin, General Manager, APAC, AMD Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed what a single person can do. A developer can build faster. A creator can generate video, music, images,…
Banking 4.0: Why banks must learn to build, not just buy
By Rakesh Nandakumar, VP – APAC at Kissflow For decades, banks followed a familiar technology playbook. When the business needed a new capability, the bank bought software, implemented it, and…
Fewer Servers, More Performance: The new logic of the modern data center
By Alexey Navolokin, General Manager, APAC at AMD Business growth in Asia Pacific is (APAC) entering a new phase. The sustained increase in data, process automation, and the advancement of…
What makes an AI PC relevant in a market full of technological promises?
By Peter Chambers, Senior Director, OEM Sales, APJ & Country Manager, Australia Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has started showing up everywhere in the PC world. Today,…
Why the Philippines’ AI ambitions hinge on data activation
By David Irecki, Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Boomi The Philippines has real artificial intelligence (AI) momentum, but the harder question is whether that momentum is…
Philippines’ AI ambitions need to be built on resilient foundations, not just faster adoption
By Kenneth Lai, Vice President, ASEAN, Cloudflare The Philippines is pushing hard to adopt a whole-of-government approach to advancing its digitalization and AI agenda through initiatives like the National AI…
4 security considerations as corporate AI use expands across the Philippines
By Kunal Jha, Regional Director for Asia at Netskope A boom in AI adoption is expanding the attack surface for malicious actors. Across Southeast Asia, AI adoption is accelerating rapidly.…
How AI can be the biggest accelerator for SMBs
By Alexey Navolokin, General Manager, APAC at AMD Talking about artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of SMBs is no longer a discussion about the future, but about the present.…
AI in Space: Start at the edge, build for the mission
By Mark Papermaster, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, AMD I started my career working on the space shuttle program at IBM and thought my life endeavors would center on…
The AI Infrastructure Challenge: Preparing for the agentic AI revolution
By Alexey Navolokin, General Manager, APAC, AMD Around the world, governments and industries are moving quickly to secure leadership in artificial intelligence (AI). For many countries, this momentum intersects with…
Can the Philippines stay online in an age of fragile cloud dependencies?
By Rachel Ler, Area Vice President of Asia, Fastly Enterprises across the Asia Pacific (APAC) are increasingly cloud dependent, leveraging servers, storage, and software to scale AI models, modernize legacy…
Digital Plumbing: The infrastructure behind dating apps
By Samuel Liu, Principal Product Manager, Equinix As we approach Valentine’s Day, many people are searching for love — or just companionship — and many of them are using dating…
What it means for the Philippines to chair ASEAN with AI at the center
By Henry Aguda, Secretary, Department of Information Communications and Technology For the Philippines, chairing ASEAN is not just a diplomatic honor. It is a chance to shape the future direction…
Multi-channel phishing drives new defense strategies for PH firms
By Kenneth Lai, VP, ASEAN, Cloudflare CISOs need a new playbook, stat. Nowhere is this more evident than in the fight against phishing, which costs companies around the world more…
Navigating power resilience amid the Philippines’ energy transition
By Tony Lin, Country Manager, Philippines and Taiwan, Eaton An unsettling wave of power outages has swept across the globe, from Bali’s island-wide blackout that paralyzed the tourism-dependent economy to…
Ban Ki-moon urges responsible AI use to support sustainable development goals
Ban Ki-moon, former secretary general of the United Nations, urged companies to approach artificial intelligence (AI) with a balance of optimism and caution, noting that the technology can support sustainable…
Accelerating development of sensor-rich compute for smart industry
By Steven Fong, Corporate Vice President, APJ Embedded Business, AMD Designing and scaling industrial computers is becoming tougher as the types and number of sensors needed to satisfy the growing…
Why the Philippines’ AI infrastructure strategy must look beyond data centers
By Alexey Navolokin, General Manager, Asia Pacific Region at AMD Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we live, work, and address some of the Philippines’ most pressing issues, from boosting…
Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Where resilience must be built in, not bolted on
By Kenneth Lai, Area Vice President, ASEAN, Cloudflare As technology continues to advance at breakneck speed, so are the cyber threats that accompany it. To help organizations understand digital threats…
With Microsoft Exchange 2016 and 2019 retiring, how can organizations secure email privacy?
By Rex Huang, Application Director, Synology As major productivity solution providers continue to adjust their plan offerings, many organizations are grappling with sudden shrinking plan options, rising costs, and the…
Decoding Parkinson’s Disease with AI and the cloud
By Dr. Rowland Illing, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Global Healthcare and Non-Profits for Amazon Web Services (AWS) When the British surgeon James Parkinson first described “shaking palsy” in…
AI as a double-edged sword for cloud security
By Ouyang Xin, General Manager of Security Products, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence There is no doubt that the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) Large Language Models (LLMs) market has…
Cisco predicts AI, security, and sustainability will reshape business in 2025
By Zaza Soriano-Nicart, Managing Director, Cisco Philippines In the past year, the business landscape has undergone significant transformations, compelling companies to rethink their operating models. One key driver has been…
Accelerating Energy Efficiency: AMD’s latest 30×25 update
By Sam Naffziger, SVP, AMD Corporate Fellow, and Product Technology Architect Over the last two years, generative AI (GenAI) has become a major focus, with billions of people and organizations…
Model Behavior: The right AI fit for businesses
By Rahul Pradhan, VP of Product and Strategy, Couchbase With Microsoft introducing AI agents and Gartner listing agentic AI as a topic technology trend for 2025, the coming year signals…
Guarding the Digital Wallet: Cybersecurity’s critical role in Philippine finance
By Ian Farquhar, Security Chief Technology Officer, Gigamon The banking sector plays a crucial role in any country’s economy, making cybersecurity a priority focus, especially as financial institutions in the…
Building a proactive security culture is crucial as generative AI advances
By Jerry Jimenez Bongco, Country General Manager at AWS Philippines As generative artificial intelligence (AI) ushers in new capabilities that were hardly imaginable even a few years ago, businesses are…
Quantum computing and the future of cryptography: Understanding the imminent threat
By Bobby O. Corpus Jr., President, OneQuantum PH/Quantum Computing Society of the Philippines Encryption is the backbone of most sensitive transactions on the web, ensuring our data remains secure. If…
Ensuring Philippine MSMEs ride the fintech adoption wave
By Rose Arreco, Business Development Manager of Digido The Philippines’ “fintech-ization” is going from strength to strength. As covered by Back End News, our latest projections reveal that the adoption…
What’s the next phase of your hybrid cloud strategy?
By Praveen Kumar, Vice President for Asia Pacific at Rocket Software Up until now, cloud migration efforts have largely focused on moving the more straightforward, on-premises data and workloads —…