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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 th...

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 ...

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'...

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 h...

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 Syne...

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...

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 ...

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 wo...

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 pro...

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 c...

LogMeIn, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based connectivity, have this week announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement (or the “Agreement”) to be acquired in a transaction led by affiliates of Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused global private equity firm, and including Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation (“Evergreen”), the private equity affili...

The changes extend into Fuze’s c-suite, where CFO Brian Day succeeds Colin Doherty as CEO. Also, Senior VP Tom Siegel shifts to chief sales officer, succeeding Chris Doggett. Both Doherty and Doggett have exited the business, Day disclosed while thanking both executives for their service. Fuze did not disclose whether the changes will impact the company’s channel partner ...

IBM Security announced it is extending its artificial intelligence (AI) technology originally developed to protect users in the financial services industry, to clients in all industries via the company’s identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) offering. IBM Cloud Identity now features AI-based adaptive access capabilities that help continually assess employee or consumer user ris...

UK consumer watchdog Which? brought on cybersecurity experts NCC Group to evaluate the safety of seven popular smart toys from major retailers including Amazon, Smyths, Argos, and John Lewis. NCC said it found an alarming number of issues that could potentially put children at risk. “Across all seven toys we found 20 noteworthy issues – two were high risk, three were a...

By Paul Butler on December 11, 2019 As we reach the final few weeks of 2019, many of you will be thinking of the projects which you will be planning or embarking on in 2020. Maybe you will be looking to the cloud for greater scalability; it might be that you plan to replace ageing systems or hardware with something more modern. In either case – and those outside of my two...

Funds advised by global private equity advisors Apax Partners are to acquire cybersecurity assessment and consulting services provider Coalfire. The long-established cybersecurity firm, which has 730 employees operating from 11 locations in the United States and the United Kingdom, is being purchased from The Carlyle Group and The Chertoff Group for an undisclosed s...

Risk management consultancy Turnkey Consulting has appointed Jonathan Tate, formerly a senior partner at PwC, to the newly-created role of chairman. The move continues the company’s policy of working with highly-experienced external advisors depending on its specific business needs. Tate will play an integral part in shaping Turnkey’s strategic directi...

To say that the cyber-security sector is growing is an understatement of the century. Threats are ballooning with the convergence of IT, IoT and OT as digitisation drives the move to connect everything to the internet. Over 6.4 billion fake emails are sent every day by nation-state cyber-attack groups, criminal cyber-attack groups and hackers worldwide, says EY’s 2018-2...

NTT Corporation and Microsoft have signed a multi-year strategic alliance. It brings together NTT global ICT platform, services and cybersecurity offerings with Microsoft Azure. Microsoft is also deploying its AI solutions on top of the platform. The two companies are also building a Global Digital Fabric and collaborating on a project called IOWN. NTT has also chosen Mic...

Vertiv Holdings LLC has announced it will become a publicly-traded company through a merger with GS Acquisition Holdings Corp. The acquisition was co-sponsored by an affiliate of The Goldman Sachs Group and David M. Cote, CEO of GSAH and former CEO of Honeywell. Cote will serve as Executive Chairman of Vertiv. Vertiv’s existing management team will continue to be led b...