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As part of its efforts to build up its data center business, Nvidia on Thursday announced a global expansion of its DGX-Ready Data Center program. The program gives businesses access to data center services through a network of qualified Nvidia colocation partners. It's designed for companies that may want to deploy AI workloads but don't have the modern data center faciliti...

GTT Communications, Inc., the global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced this week a definitive purchase agreement to acquire KPN International, a division of KPN N.V. headquartered in the Netherlands, for approximately €50 million in cash, on a cash and debt-free basis. KPN International operates a global IP network serving enterprise and carrier c...

Cisco Systems is buying optical component maker Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion in cash. Pending the usual regulatory approvals, the acquisition is expected to close by the second half of Cisco's full-year 2020, which will run from January to July of that year. Cisco's acquisitive streak Massachusetts-based Acacia, a Cisco supplier, designs and manufactures high-speed...

PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, and Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale carrier and cloud neutral data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific, today announced the launch of a new Console Connect point-of-presence (PoP) at Global Switch’s Tai Seng data center in Si...

Contact centres have always been a revenue driver for the channel. It’s one of the many markets that enjoys continuous growth. After all, more than 4% of the UK’s working population is employed at contact centres, and that number just increases year-on-year. As well as being a growth market, it’s also a market that is undergoing huge digital transformation. It was over three...

8×8, one of the leading providers of cloud-based communication solutions, recently announced the arrival of a new complete contact centre solution. Announced for Customer Contact Week 2019, the exciting new offering aims to support more than 1 million users worldwide who already rely on 8×8 technology. The 8×8 Contact Centre will give customers access to various capabilities...

Today’s corporate workplace is the most dynamic it has ever been, with the Millennial-driven mindset leading to the development of corporate cultures and adoption of advanced technologies that allow employees to work remotely, or outside of business hours, to gain flexibility without hindering their ability to contribute to organizational success. To accommodate this shift t...

There is more and more talk these days about how unified communications (UC) is set to be transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) – with the topic getting plenty of airtime at this year’s UC Expo in London in May. So is AI ready to come out of the lab and into live UC environments? And to what extent is it having an impact already? One strand of activity was presented in...

Microsoft plans to automatically install the Teams desktop app on Windows devices linked to existing Office ProPlus accounts, the suite of desktop applications that comes with subscriptions to cloud-based Office 365. The move is an escalation of Microsoft's campaign to get the 180 million users of Office 365 to adopt Teams. The company has declined to say how many people are...

In a business world increasingly dominated by IT, the demand for managed services providers (MSPs) is showing no signs of slowing down. While many companies, large and small, seek the skills and support that MSPs offer, however, the role that MSPs need to play today is significantly changing. The days of MSPs simply managing office devices and hardware are long gone. Innovat...