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Japanese communication giant NTT has announced its intentions to build an enormous subsea network spanning from Singapore to Chennai and Mumbai, as well as to neighbouring Myanmar.   The so-called MIST cable will join NTT’s three existing subsea cable systems – Asia Submarine Cable Express (ASE), Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), and Pacific Crossing -1(PC-1) – as well as the cJUP...

This is not the first the data centre industry has heard about the strong growth the Asia Pacific region is set to bear witness to following an array of reports released throughout the year. This time, it has been predicted that the APAC market’s data centre and hosting services revenue is set to hit $32bn by 2023, according to GlobalData. The data and analytics firm has not...

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) officially opened its Data Centre in the UK in early December. As a purpose-built data centre, the new building is CMI's first data centre in Europe and important addition to its growing global network. Serving as both an International Network Exchange hub and an Internet Data Centre (IDC), the UK Data Centre supports the 'Belt and Ro...

In early 2018, senior Google executives reportedly debated the direction of the company's cloud division, setting the goal of becoming a top-two player by 2023. The Information, a publication with a strong track record of breaking news, claims that the company is considering reducing its cloud spend should it fail. A Google spokesperson said that the article was "not accurat...

The European Union's antitrust authorities are prepared to clear, without conditions, Nvidia to proceed with its $6.8 billion bid for Mellanox Technologies a report said. People familiar with the matter told Reuters the European regulators were set to allow the deal to go through.  Late last week, reports said that the Santa Clara, Calif., maker of graphics chips didn't offe...

While good technology analysis revolves around exploring new markets, conducting research and publishing authoritative market share scores, sometimes insights can be gleaned by just freshening up current figures. Long-time cloud infrastructure Synergy Research has done just that in its latest note which focuses on continued hyperscaler dominance. The latest data from Synergy...

Video collaboration company Lifesize is looking to expand its footprint via a Rooms-as-a-Service plan that aims to offer enterprises predictable pricing and lower upfront costs. The Rooms-as-a-Service plan starts for $99 per room per month and is available in the US and Europe. More international markets are expected in 2020. Lifesize has been taking aim at Zoom in cloud vid...

Evolve IP's launch of voice enablement for Microsoft Teams brings a hybrid deployment model and two license options under the brand Voice2Teams and Voice2Teams Plus.  The service is based on the Cisco BroadSoft hosted UC platform which has over 70 million users worldwide. "We are bringing our many years of delivering carrier-grade hosted telephony to the Microsoft world," sa...

Microsoft has eschewed investments in Skype server in the hopes of convincing more customers to adopt cloud-based Microsoft Teams. Microsoft added no significant end-user features to on-premises Skype for Business in 2019, closing out the year with a December update that mostly fixes bugs. Microsoft's lack of investment in Skype server underscores how the company views the p...

Panasonic have this week announced that its range of SIP communications devices have been certified for use with Exponential-e's Unified Communications (UC) platform. The partnership combines the latest cloud communications innovation for business with Panasonic’s leading range of trusted communications systems. Exponential-e provides business customers with a full suite of ...