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Intel revenues flat as PC market sales fall but data centre sales rise
over 4 years agoIntel has posted flat revenues at $19.2 billion in its third quarter, attributing the result to significantly lower sales into the PC sector, offset by rising data centre product sales. As a result, sales for the year so far are very marginally down. However, CEO Bob Swan raised the company's outlook for the rest of the year, pointing to the growth in the company's Data C...
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SSE Enterprise Telecoms Orders Fibreoptic Connection
over 4 years agoBristol-based SSE Enterprise Telecoms has ordered a new fibre route in order to connect its 12,000km UK-wide network to the Next Generation Data data centre in Newport. SSE Enterprise Telecoms specialises in providing high capacity, long distant fibre, optical and ethernet services and Nextgenaccess’ new 60km fibre route nearing completion between Bradley Stoke and ...
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Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.4: App Search, new CLI, API keys, and more
over 4 years agoThis week, Elastic is proud to announce Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 2.4. This new version includes exciting new functionality that gives users even more power in implementing their search use cases. ECE 2.4 also includes new tooling, API, and management capabilities to help operators continue to provide Elasticsearch at an enormous scale. Additionally, ECE brings updates ...
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NTT Becomes First Partner to Deliver Cloud Connected PSTN for Webex Calling in EMEA
over 4 years agoNTT has this week announces it has become the first partner in EMEA to offer Cloud Connected PSTN for Webex Calling, enabling Cisco Value Add Resellers (VARs) to offer a complete cloud calling solution to enhance end-user enterprise communication experiences. The offering, delivered by the Cloud Communications division of NTT, will enable Cisco VARs to propose a full clou...
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GTT Upgrades Key European Network Routes to Meet Growing Demand
over 4 years agoGTT Communications, Inc., a leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced this week the upgrade of its fiber network across several of its European routes. The network upgrades enhance the capacity and performance capability of GTT’s Tier 1 global IP network footprint for its enterprise and carrier clients. GTT has upgraded routes that conne...
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Digital Realty swoops in to buy Interxion for $8.4bn
over 4 years agoDigital Realty has pounced on Europe's largest colocation provider, Interxion, offering a premium price that bypasses a planned bidding process due to end in just two days (November 1). Interxion has accepted a bid of $8.4 billion from the US giant. This will be the largest data center merger ever and is funded entirely by a stock swap. This move will massively...
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Microsoft beats AWS to $10bn JEDI contract: Defining multi-cloud and analysing administrative influence
over 4 years agoThe announcement from the Department of Defense (DoD) on Friday that Microsoft had been awarded the long-detailed $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) cloud computing contract elicited responses of surprise from many in the industry. The release confirming the contract to Microsoft made for interesting reading. Transparency was the name of the game: ...
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Global Switch Joins Chinese Partners In Opening New €115m Frankfurt Data Centre
over 4 years agoGlobal Switch will be opening its second data centre in Frankfurt, Germany next month in partnership with China Telecom Global and Daily-Tech, a developer and operator of data centre infrastructure across China. The €115m Frankfurt North site will go live on Tuesday 12 November after Global Switch announced its construction last year. The new facility is located at Esc...
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NFON AG presents Nvoice for Microsoft Teams
over 4 years agoNFON AG, the only pan-European cloud PBX provider, announces the launch of Nvoice for Microsoft Teams. This combines two communication platforms into one offering: Microsoft Office 365 with Microsoft Teams and Cloudya, the telephone system from the cloud. “The European market demands high-quality communication solutions,” explains César Flores Rodríguez, Chief Sales Officer ...
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Cisco Launches “World’s First” Commercial OpenRoaming Deployment in London
over 4 years ago“Four times faster wireless speeds” Cisco says it has launched the world’s first commercial trial deployment of OpenRoaming in Canary Wharf. OpenRoaming allows devices to connect automatically to Wi-Fi 6 networks, and roam across hotspots without needing to log in. It is built on the HotSpot 2.0 standard, which in turn is based on the IEEE 802.11u standard for inter...
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Developers get new tools to improve Slack integrations
over 4 years agoSlack has introduced development tools that should make third-party integrations easier to find and use, as the company looks to make its app friendlier to the average office worker. The new tools, most of which are still in beta, will help developers design Slack integrations that users can intuitively interact with by clicking buttons, rather than by typing a command or...
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Capita Extend National Trust Contact Centre Contract
over 4 years agoCapita has provided customer experience services to the National Trust since 2009, including new membership, renewals and cancellations, as well as supporting the Trust’s holiday, fundraising, donation, and event management teams. Over the next five years, Capita will work with the Trust to explore new opportunities to embed digital technology into the Trust’s customer ex...
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5 UCC Trends Taking Root This Fall
over 4 years agoIn the past two months, I attended seven industry-related events, as well as one post-conference briefing for one that I was unable to attend. While each event had its unique stance on the future of UCC, I identified several key themes and trends that were emerging across them, which included: 1. Video is Hot, Hot, Hot Many years ago, Cisco’s John Chambers an...
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Cloud Communications Market Will Triple in the Next Five Years
over 4 years agoThe marketplace for cloud communications has been growing rapidly not just over the last year, but for quite some time now. The Cavell Group, one of the leading analyst groups in the industry, has recently conducted a new piece of research into the cloud space, particularly in the European landscape. They believe that the cloud is ready to move at a faster pace than ever bef...
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New portfolio of multi-cloud security services bolsters Fujitsu's portfolio
over 4 years agoFujitsu have launched a new portfolio of multi-cloud security services, enabling organisations to stay on top of the increasingly complex security challenges from multi-cloud environments. A new portfolio of security controls that are both cloud-specific and cloud-agnostic increase data resilience, availability and integrity. As a result, new Fujitsu managed security se...
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Varonis Announces Third Quarter 2019 Financial Results
over 4 years agoVaronis Systems, Inc., a pioneer in data security and analytics, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019. Yaki Faitelson, Varonis CEO, said, “We are very pleased with our third-quarter results. Revenues of $65.6 million significantly exceeded the high end of our guidance, while we also saw an acceleration in our subscription model transition...
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Largest cyber-attack in Georgia's history linked to hacked web hosting provider
over 4 years agoThe country of Georgia suffered a massive cyber-attack today during which over 15,000 websites were defaced and later taken offline.The attack, considered by local press the biggest in the country's history, impacted the sites for various government agencies, banks, courts, local newspapers, and TV stations.Pro-Service, a local web hosting provider, has stepped forward to ta...
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CGI secures £20m contract to develop MoD cyber threat system
over 4 years agoCanadian outsourcing giant CGI has secured a £20m contract to further develop the Ministry of Defence’s cyber threat analysis system. CGI won a £5.6m two-year contract to build a “cyber situational awareness fusion architecture” for the MoD in 2016. At the time, CGI said the service would combine various data sources to support “decision-making in cyber defence”. Now...
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Johannesburg city under ransomware attack, again
over 4 years agoJohannesburg, South Africa's largest city, faces another ransomware attack, months after a crippling infection lead to a blackout on 25 July. A hacker group that uses the alias Shadow Kill Hackers managed to infect the internal network of the city administration. They are threatening to distribute the authentication and monetary details of millions of citizens online u...
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What are the biggest career trends in cyber security?
over 4 years agoCybersecurity continues to be a popular career choice and understandably so. According to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan, the level of unemployment in the sector lies at just 1% and demand will continue outstripping supply. Job site Indeed saw an increase of almost 15% in cybersecurity postings in 2018 and this growing demand is, of course, driving up wages. According to H...
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