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Rackspace invests heavily in bold new European expansion plan
over 5 years agoRackspace today announced it is embarking on its most ambitious EMEA expansion plan to date, investing heavily in growing its footprint in Germany and Northern Europe. This move enables it to deliver even better services to existing customers in these regions, and meet the growing demand for innovative cloud solutions from businesses there. This investment responds to bot...
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CyrusOne Signs Novel Dutch Deal To Build Europe’s Biggest Data Centre Campus
over 5 years agoThe US company’s land deal is seen as a first in the industry, and it means that it doesn’t have to lay out millions of dollars before it has signed up the tenants to fill the hyperscale facilities it intends to build. CyrusOne has struck a deal with Agriport A7 for the development of hyperscale data centres in Middenmeer, the Netherlands. Under the terms of the agreement...
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Interxion Announces New Data Centres in Frankfurt and Marseille
over 5 years agoInterxion have announced this week that in response to continued customer demand, Interxion will construct new data centres in Frankfurt (“FRA15”) and Marseille (“MRS3”).“Interxion Frankfurt is the leading cloud and connectivity hub in Germany with over 20 cloud deployments from the leading global cloud platforms and 235 network service providers present,” said David Ruberg,...
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Video conferencing company Zoom readies IPO, say sources: Reuters
over 5 years agoZoom Video Communications Inc, a conferencing company started by an early engineer at collaboration software maker Webex, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Zoom is aiming to be valued in the IPO at several billion dollars more than the $1 billion valuation it achieved in its most recent funding round in 2017...
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GCI implements major SfB project
over 5 years agoCost reduction and remote working were key drivers behind a complex multi-site international project undertaken by GCI for global law firm Osborne Clarke, delivering Skype for Business Enterprise Voice to 1,600 employees.GCI implemented a hybrid environment housing the existing on-premise system and hosted Skype for Business platforms, as well as the new GCI Skype for Busine...
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Slack blanks the channel: no foreseeable plans to engage
over 5 years agoAt its recent Ignite conference, Microsoft went out of its way to say that new adoption of its Teams collaboration tool had out-paced adoption of Slack. That Microsoft let this be known is notable because it shows that Microsoft has decided it wants in on the messaging-driven collaboration market that Slack pioneered. Microsoft is using its usual playbook to get Teams ...
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Who’s Big in Contact Centre 2018?
over 5 years agoIt’s safe to say that the contact centre environment is evolving, with new players and solutions entering the market all the time. Today’s contact centre isn’t just a room full of ringing phones; it’s a multi-channel hub dedicated to customer experience, workforce optimisation, and constant analytics and reporting.We caught up with Chris Marron, the contact centre analysis l...
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8X8 Acquires Jitsi Video Communications Technology from Atlassian
over 5 years ago8x8, Inc, a leading cloud provider of voice, video, collaboration and contact centre solutions for over one million users worldwide, today announced that it has acquired the Jitsi open source video communications technology and its highly skilled team of open source video technology experts. The Jitsi technology further extends 8x8’s cloud technology platform and adds to th...
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Twilio Autopilot looks to simplify contact center AI
over 5 years agoTwilio has released a platform to help developers build AI chatbots and voice assistants for use in the contact center. The vendor will go head to head with tech giants, including Amazon and Google, in the growing market for cloud-based AI tools.Twilio Autopilot aims to simplify the process of building conversational AI interfaces, including chatbots, interactive voice respo...
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Kaspersky warns of hackable brain implants
over 5 years agoA newly developed class of brain implants could also become hacking targets, researchers are warning. Kaspersky Lab and the University of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery Group warn in a joint report that the brain stimulation devices used to treat disorders like Parkinson's and OCD carry with them security vulnerabilities that would potentially allow an attacker to manipul...
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Search for Chrome on Bing, and you might get a nasty surprise
over 5 years agoIt’s 2018, and you can still end up with your computer compromised by searching for the world’s most popular browser. That fact was brought home once again by Twitter user Gabriel Landau who, immediately upon firing up his brand new Windows 10 laptop and trying to download Google Chrome, was directed instead by Bing (the default search engine used by Windows 10’s default ...
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ZoneFox acquired by US giant Fortinet
over 5 years agoScottish IT cyber security company ZoneFox has been acquired by US giant Fortinet. Edinburgh-based ZoneFox was spun out of Edinburgh Napier University in 2009 and has since grown rapidly. It focuses on providing world class security systems that combat the issue of insider threats to companies across a wide range of business sectors and its customers include Cranewar...
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Children’s toys and baby monitors can be taken over by hackers, security services warn
over 5 years agoCode of practice issued to manufacturers after security vulnerabilities found in toys including smart bear and talking dinosaur The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued new guidance calling on manufacturers to ensure devices sold to British families are secure. Vulnerabilities already discovered include one that could let attackers obtain audio from a baby ...
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Cobalt Gang targets banks and financial service providers by sneaking PDFs past staff
over 5 years agoSecurity analysts use new techniques to expose attackers' commodity builders and tools and their infrastructures. A gang of hackers targeting financial institutions are trying to avoid detection by slipping PDFs files in emails, but getting bank staff to click on malware links. According to researchers at Palo Alto, the hackers who are part of the Cobalt gang hav...
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Trend Micro research shows soar in demand for cryptocurrency skills
over 5 years agoTrend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has identified that UK demand for cryptocurrency skills has jumped by 1130% in the past two years. However, Trend Micro’s analysis of ITJobsWatch data also found that these positions are not being filled by candidates with cybersecurity expertise.The data revealed a disconnect between cryptocurrency and cy...
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Ten simple ways to get your staff interested in cyber security
over 5 years agoFor the most part, it’s about tapping into human psychology, and the ways that people like to learn.A crucial part of any cyber security strategy must be to focus on the human aspect - on developing security awareness, behaviour, and culture within the organisation. But improvements to all of these things depend on one major prerequisite: human interest. It may seem obvious,...
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Singtel invests US$250 million in Airtel Africa Ltd
over 5 years agoSingtel has entered into an agreement with its regional associate Bharti Airtel (Airtel) to invest US$250 million in Airtel Africa Ltd, a subsidiary of Airtel with operations in 14 African countries. Singtel holds a 39.5% effective stake in Airtel. This investment forms part of US$1.25 billion that Airtel has secured from global investors, including Temasek, Warburg Pincu...
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Vodafone revealed as the UK's best network for video streaming
over 5 years agoVodafone has been named as the best UK mobile operator for overall video experience in the UK, overcoming stiff competition from EE to claim the crown. OpenSignal has published its latest report, which ranked the UK's big 4 mobile network operators for overall video experience, grading them on speed, latency, picture quality and overall viewing experience. Vodafone rec...
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Intent-based networking will "revolutionise the data centre"
over 5 years agoThere are a number of new technologies bursting on the scene with promises to change the way data centres operate. Apstra chief technology officer Sasha Ratkovic says intent-based networking is one of them as it works to allow companies to run their networks reliably and cost-effectively while offering more agility and control. The hard problem to achieving that is d...
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NVIDIA, Scripps Research Translational Institute Partner on AI for Genomics, Digital Health Sensors
over 5 years agoThe Scripps Research Translational Institute is partnering with NVIDIA to develop AI and deep learning best practices, tools and infrastructure to accelerate AI applications using genomic and digital health sensor data. With NVIDIA, Scripps will establish a center of excellence for artificial intelligence in genomics and digital sensors. “AI in medicine has tremendous ...
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