Digital services stories

Umbraco adds AI skills to guide backoffice development, giving agents direct access to current docs, code and examples for safer customisation.

SLR deepens its digital climate analytics offer with the acquisitions of Planetrics and ClimSystems, targeting asset-level risk modelling.

Tech bosses urge wider recruitment, earlier coding education and a rethink of what counts as technical excellence to open senior roles to women.

Nutanix and NetApp team up on migration tools to help enterprises modernise virtualised systems, cut complexity and bolster ransomware defences.

Akamai names Sean Li as Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan, as the firm sharpens its cloud, security and AI push in the region.

CyberCX deepens Collingwood ties with major partner status, adding official cyber and app roles as clubs face rising digital threats.

Zip moves into mobile plans with ZMobile, giving existing app users early access to prepaid services backed by TPG Telecom's network.

Nutanix unveils bare-metal Kubernetes support and widens Agentic AI plans to help neocloud providers offer managed GPU services.

GigaOm names Check Point a third-year application security leader as its WAF posts strong detection rates and low false positives.

Small Cell Forum outlines stadium network options as venue owners weigh shared infrastructure, private systems and 5G Standalone for crowded events.

Thales report finds weak login and sign-up flows are pushing users away, as trust in AI, data handling and digital services remains low.

Akamai says AI adoption is widening a governance gap across APAC, with API misuse and application-layer attacks surging as businesses digitise.

Once a background IT chore, data backup is now a frontline business risk as complex systems and cyber threats expose fragile resilience.

OpenID Foundation appoints Kantara Initiative to oversee testing service applicants as it expands independent assurance for digital identity standards.

APAC organisations are turning observability into the guardrail for AI, using better visibility to curb outages, costs and compliance risk.

Cegal lifts revenue and backlog as energy clients step up spending on cloud and data projects to prepare for wider artificial intelligence use.

Australian Wool Exchange tightens project controls as independent reviews back its sustainability and WoolClip traceability investments.

MariaDB adds GridGain in-memory technology as it builds an AI-ready platform for agentic systems needing faster real-time data processing.

Everpure upgrades Portworx to unify storage, protection and governance for virtual machines and containers on Kubernetes at scale.

DCL unveils a compact emissions control system for diesel and HVO backup engines, targeting NOx cuts at data centres across Europe.