News tagged: cloud

05 July, 2018

Video games market is worth more than music and movies combined so why aren’t CSPs launching games services?

If you happened to be one of Spotify’s investors, you’ll likely be smiling following the company’s US$27 billion debut on the US stock market. Long seen as the driving force behind the shift from purchasing music to streaming it, Spotify is one of many contemporary companies that depend on the infrastructure investments of global communications service providers (CSPs), without contributing to it. The same can be said of Netflix, currently valued at US$134 billion and growing. For CSPs, such services are a challenge, as they compete with their own services at the same time as depending utterly on their infrastructure for their success. So why should video games represent anything different, asks Javier Polo, the chief executive of PlayGiga?

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05 July, 2018

Livingbridge investor targets cloud capabilities for communications service providers

With mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) market at an all-time high, according to research from Thomson Reuters, Mo Aneese, who works in the investment team at private equity firm, Livingbridge, tells George Malim that telecoms-related investments are now really about enabling cloud services.

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27 June, 2018

IEEE adopts OpenFog reference architecture as standard for fog computing in IoT, AI and 5G

The OpenFog Consortium’s OpenFog Reference Architecture for fog computing has been adopted as an official standard by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). The new standard, known as IEEE 1934™, relies on the reference architecture as a universal technical framework that enables the data-intensive requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. (more…)

18 June, 2018

Cisco and NetApp simplify the delivery of cloud infrastructure and industry-specific apps with new solutions

Cisco and NetApp announced new FlexPod® solutions. FlexPod combines Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with NetApp® data services to help organisations accelerate application delivery and transition to a hybrid cloud with a trusted platform for innovation. (more…)

08 June, 2018

TIBCO Software acquires integration Platform-as-a-Service provider Scribe Software

TIBCO Software Inc., a global provider in integration, API management, and analytics, announced the acquisition of Scribe Software, an innovative, cloud-based integration service that helps more than 10,000 businesses efficiently connect Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and automate data flows using an intuitive browser-based approach. (more…)

30 May, 2018

Mellanox launches the Mellanox Hyper-scalable Enterprise Framework for private cloud and enterprise data centres

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, officially launched the Mellanox Hyper-scalable Enterprise Framework, the industry’s first truly scalable, open framework for private cloud and enterprise data centres. (more…)

22 May, 2018

ECOC Exhibition will shine spotlight on future optics trends at Market Focus

Remote sensing, bio-medical applications, consumer products and free space optics will be among the latest trends discussed at this year’s European Conference on Optical Communications Exhibition (ECOC), with a New Markets Track set to run for the first time as part of the event’s popular Market Focus. (more…)

22 May, 2018

Talend opens nomination period for Data Masters Awards

Talend, a global provider  in cloud and big data integration solutions, officially opened the submission period for its fourth annual Data Masters Awards. This program celebrates companies using Talend solutions in innovative, forward-thinking ways to put more data to work and enable more informed and impactful business decisions. (more…)

17 May, 2018

VCW appointed distribution partner for Topsec Cloud Solutions

Topsec Cloud Solutions, a provider of cloud-based managed email security solutions, has appointed VCW Security as sole UK distribution partner. Specialising in the distribution and marketing of IT security solutions and services to end-user companies via the reseller channel, (more…)

02 May, 2018

Calligo acquires Canadian IT MSP, Mico Systems Inc to open up global provision of new managed services

Calligo, the data optimisation and privacy provider, has announced it has acquired Mico Systems, a Canadian specialist in outsourced IT management for small-to-medium-sized clients. (more…)