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If they want large-scale digital transformation to succeed, public sector organisations must look at their infrastructure, says Darren Watkins, VIRTUS Data Centres. With so many inspiring examples of smart city applications across the globe, it’s perhaps disheartening that many view the UK public sector as being slow in its digital transformation efforts. Indeed, despite the...

5G networks powered by mid-range spectrum offer speeds close to those enabled by higher capacity millimetre Wave (mmWave) frequencies, Opensignal’s latest figures have suggested. 5G will use a mixture of low, mid and high-band spectrum, each of which offers a combination of range and capacity. The US, which is using mmWave spectrum, still has the world’s fastest maximum spee...

Orange and PCCW Global have signed an agreement to launch the much-anticipated PEACE cable, which will connect France with Pakistan, via a series of landing points in East Africa and the Middle East. The 12,000km long PEACE cable will connect France with Pakistan using a single landing point in the French city of Marseille. It will follow the Europe-Asia route and will stop ...

Megaport has announced the expansion of the service footprint and additional capabilities of its Megaport Cloud Router (MCR). The solution delivers on-demand private connectivity to at Layer 3 from 19 key metro routing zones globally, adding to the company’s ability to offer direct connectivity to over 130 cloud onramps globally. “Megaport’s mission is to reduce the complexi...

Oracle has signaled its Cloud expansion ambitions at its Openworld conference, with plans to add 20 new cloud availability regions to its existing 16 by the end of 2020. This will give a total of 36 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions, and the plan will see both the arrival of regions in new countries, as well dual, geographically separated regions in the US, Canada, Brazil,...

Ireland-based data centre owner and developer Echelon Data Centres will pour £150m into a new 20MW facility in London. The site will be Echelon’s first data centre outside of Ireland. It will be located in The Point, Greenwich View in London’s Docklands. The new facility is in an area where there are 22 existing data centres. The new facility is understood to be the first to...

Kao Data, the home of innovation and the UK’s leading entrant to the wholesale colocation data centre market, has announced that Paul Finch is to lead the company as interim CEO through the expansion phase of the 43.5MVA campus development. The announcement is made as incumbent, Jan Daan Luycks stands down from the company based on his decision to return home to the Netherla...

Westcon-Comstor has announced two Go to Market business units designed to further align specialist resources behind its Westcon Collaboration and Cyber Security distribution business in EMEA. The creation of the units provides Westcon’s Collaboration and Cyber Security businesses with specific expert attention and dedicated resource that adds to its existing technical focus....

Poly unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Trio conference room phone designed for small meeting spaces, or huddle rooms. The vendor also released a new wireless phone and said it would let businesses rent their headsets in lieu of buying them. The Trio 8300 is the third phone in the current Poly Trio series, behind the 8500 for medium-sized conference rooms and the 880...

Pinnaca customers who are using Zoom for meetings, webinars, or in their conference rooms can now call on Pinnaca’s Global Video Network Operations Center (VNOC) for support. Pinnaca, a global leader in Managed Services for Visual Communications and Unified Communications introduces a new service offering for its customers and partners supporting their Zoom Video Communicati...