The challenges facing chief information officers (CIOs) are more complicated and critical than ever before, as these leaders look to help their businesses recover and restart in the wake of a global pandemic. To that end, IBM is announcing at its Think Digital conference a broad range of new AI-powered capabilities and services that are designed to help CIOs automate their IT infrastructures to be more resilient to future disruptions and to help reduce costs. (more…)
May 5, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Retail technology company Beabloo has launched Interaction Care, a technology solution designed to guarantee compliance with safety measures, including social distancing, body temperature, and traffic imonitoring in enclosed physical spaces. (more…)
May 1, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Kin + Carta is being recognised by Google Cloud as a global integration partner for their Rapid Response Virtual Agent program. (more…)
April 30, 2020
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NetApp, a provider of cloud data services, announced that it acquired CloudJumper, a cloud software company in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and remote desktop services (RDS) markets. As a result of the acquisition, the new NetApp Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) will solve the most challenging problems of virtual desktop services and application management, allowing customers to deploy, manage, monitor and optimise those environments as a total solution from a single company on the public cloud of their choice. (more…)
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TM Forum, the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, announced a new addition to its board of directors with the appointment of Jan Karlsson, senior vice president and head of business area digital services at Ericsson. Karlsson brings a wealth of expertise in driving digital business, and network and IT transformation for the world’s largest connectivity service providers. (more…)
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MOX Networks, a fiber-optic network specialist, and Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection, ecosystem, and hyperscale edge data centre company, announced a new partnership today aimed at expanding connectivity solutions for their customers across North America. Currently connected to the Cologix Minneapolis data centres, MOX is now offering 1G, 10G, and 100G capacity services to all Cologix customers, with the ability to extend service to several Chicago area data centres and the Seattle metro area. (more…)
April 29, 2020
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Nutanix, a provider of cloud computing, and Wipro Limited, a global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced the launch of Wipro’s Digital Database Services (DDS) powered by Nutanix Era and Nutanix HCI software. This offering will enable enterprises to efficiently manage databases, optimising time and effort of IT teams. (more…)
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A new report from Juniper Research has found that consumers will interact with voice assistants on over 8.4 billion devices by 2024; overtaking the world’s population and growing 113% compared to the 4.2 billion devices expected to be in use by year end 2020. Despite this, monetisation of the voice assistants themselves remains a challenge. (more…)
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The last decade has seen unprecedented development of the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, enabled by new distributed network technologies. McKinsey estimates that by 2025, the world will own 50 billion networked devices, up 400% from 2010, and contributing US$11 trillion (€10 trillion) to economies. (more…)
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UK-based wireless telecommunications provider, Vilicom has installed an in-building, advanced cellular network at Smart DCC’s new Manchester office, Brabazon House. This, says the company, will be an essential tool in the rigorous testing of the latest smart energy technologies and initiatives at the new site. (more…)
Posted by: Anasia D'mello