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The European Commission has approved Vodafone's proposed acquisition of a string of Liberty Global telecommunication assets in Eastern Europe, according to an official release. The €18.4 billion deal will see Vodafone become the largest provider of converged telecoms services in Europe, with 162.6 mobile, TV and fixed-line broadband customers spread across the continent. As ...

Equinix caters to more than 50 markets on five continents, evolving the world into a different place that is creating a plethora of opportunity. Bergen is one month into his new role at Equinix after leading sales for the company for six years and recalls the tremendous growth he witnessed. “This is an exciting business because we get to witness silent revolutions in differe...

A leading global digital infrastructure provider Tata Communications is expanding its global relationship with Microsoft with the addition of managed services capability for Azure Virtual WAN. Enterprises worldwide are now able to combine IZO™ Internet WAN with the Microsoft global network to connect employees seamlessly and securely to cloud-based applications and data thro...

A satellite station has opened the UK's first green high-performance computing platform for artificial intelligence and machine learning on demand. The Cornwall-based Goonhilly Earth Station is one of the first organisations in the UK to deploy a liquid immersion cooling system to mitigate the power demands of high-performance computing. Its green platform consists of an ons...

Amsterdam claims to be part of Europe's largest data center hub and is experiencing massive growth, and yet the municipal authorities have called a halt to the establishment of new data centers in the area until 2020. The authorities say this move is necessary because the building of data centers is out of their control. The Dutch Data Center Association (DDA) says the decis...

AT&T and IBM on Tuesday announced they're expanding their partnership with a new, multi-year deal that will bring AT&T Business's applications to the IBM Cloud. IBM will also help manage AT&T's hybrid cloud infrastructure. Meanwhile, IBM is making AT&T Business its primary provider of software-defined networking. To help facilitate the cloud migration, IBM will help moderniz...

Appsbroker has been named a supplier on Crown Commercial Service (CCS)’s G-Cloud 11 framework, across all three lots of cloud software, cloud support and cloud hosting. G-Cloud was introduced in February 2012 as an initiative to streamline the delivery of cloud-based services to public sector bodies. To secure inclusion, organisations must be able to meet stringent criteria ...

Warren Bone has been appointed Head of the Yealink business unit to spearhead continued growth of its UC and collaboration solutions, spanning desk phones, audio conferencing and video-based technologies across the country. Warren benefits from a 25-year comms career and takes-up the position from Panasonic where for the last nine years he was Distribution Sales Manager acro...

LogMeIn, Inc. has this week announced the release of a new Unified Communications (UC) product for small businesses called Grasshopper Connect. The new application brings together all forms of business communication into one simple, easy-to-use inbox, and enables small businesses to create a professional identity through a dedicated business phone number all on their existin...

Avaya, Cisco, and Microsoft are ranked as the leading unified communications vendors, while Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Google, Huawei, NEC, and Unify and Mitel are “major players” in International Data Corporation (IDC)’s new ratings of the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. In an earlier report, IDC forecast that the UC&C market would grow $48.3 billion...