Osaka stories

Sharp New Zealand buys managed IT specialist Securecom, signalling a pivot from print hardware to broader cyber security and cloud services.

FedEx says its Asia Pacific operations delivered USD $5.7 billion in economic impact in 2025 as it ramps up routes, tech and green investments.

Oracle and Google Cloud unveil AI-powered database services and expand Oracle Database@Google Cloud to eight regions, enhancing multicloud flexibility and partner access.

Specialist Sports has boosted efficiency by automating its warehouse and order management using Microsoft Dynamics 365, BPA Platform, and AutoStore robotics.

Japan's data centre market outshines the rest of Asia Pacific, with Tokyo and Osaka scoring highly in global established and emerging markets rankings, according to annual Global Data Centre Market Comparison report.

AirTrunk initiates the construction of a 20MW data centre, AirTrunk OSK1, in West Osaka, marking a major step in Japan's digital evolution and enhancing cloud technology infrastructure.

Japan's third superconducting quantum computer, developed by top scientific institutions and tech companies, sets for user access in December.

Akamai Technologies is celebrating 20 years in Asia-Pacific and Japan and is confident about the future as customer demand grows in cloud computing.

The results are based on a survey of 386 respondents across ANZ, Japan, China, India, Singapore, and South Korea.

Akamai survey reveals varying levels of investment in cloud computing among businesses in Asia-Pacific, but overall acknowledgement of its importance.

Equinix's distributed bare metal as a service is now available in Osaka and Melbourne, along with ones in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

The new services offer a fundamentally different approach to the cloud by integrating core and distributed computing sites with a massively scaled edge network.

Akamai Technologies has launched Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for computing, security and content delivery.

The company has bolstered the growing demand for its services in Southeast Asia with the addition of Sunny Chua as Country Manager.

NTT New Zealand has reported a $41.5 million loss for the year to the end of March 2022, driven by a $25 million write-down of goodwill.

DataCentre220 is one of several industry leaders contributing to Data Center in a Box, an offering Rackspace Technology has designed specifically for VMware.

Cloudflare outage caused by change in resilience project, impacting 50% of requests. No attack involved, says company.

Designed in Osaka, Japan, these headphones just exude quality. They aren't heavy, but they feel well built and solid.

Interconnection bandwidth across major global and Asia Pacific metros are expected to continue their growth to record levels.

Radware's North America vice president Bob Simpson says that there has been a rapid shift to cloud - and more sophisticated cyber attacks to go with it.