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Last week there were reports by Advanced Intelligence (AdvIntel) claiming that three US antivirus companies had been hacked by a top-tier Russian hacking collective. While the original research did not identify the impacted companies, both Gizmodo and Bleeping Computer have reported that McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro are the three companies in question. Though it does try...

Vodafone has cut its dividend payment to shareholders as it gears up to launch 5G services across Europe and acquire a host of Eastern European assets from Liberty Global Vodafone Group issued its full year financial report on Tuesday, with revenues falling by 6.2 per cent to €43.66 billion, leading to an operating loss for the year of €951 million. In the build up to the pu...

London – 14th May 2019 – VIRTUS Data Centres, has announced that it has achieved a Tier III design certification from Uptime Institute for its LONDON5 data centre. Following in the footsteps of VIRTUS’ LONDON1, LONDON2 and LONDON4 facilities, LONDON5 has also attained UKAS accredited ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 50001 certifications. The Uptime Institute Tier clas...

Boosting effectiveness and data privacy, NVIDIA DGX-2 AI systems power federated learning infrastructure for local creation, adaptation and deployment of AI in medical imaging in hospitals. Aiming to simplify and speed up complicated radiology workflows, NVIDIA and King’s College London last week announced they are partnering to build an AI platform that will in the near fut...

Exponential-e has slammed rival Gamma for competing with its partners since going public. The networking specialist claims to have taken advantage of partner frustrations with its competitor since it listed on the AIM market in 2014, according to its head of channel. Alp Kostem told CRN that Gamma has been going direct more since its listing, which has sowed seeds of discont...

Equinix, Inc, will open 12 new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers and expand 23 existing IBX data centers in 2019 as part of an expected $1.730 to $1.920 billion of non-recurring capital expenditure expansion program for the year as announced on the company's Q1 2019 earnings call. Equinix plays a strategic role in advancing enterprise digital transformatio...

The report, titled ‘Data Center Construction Market in Europe - Industry Outlook and Forecast 2019-2024’, claims that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4% between 2018 and 2024. The growth is anticipated to be driven by the rise in the procurement of renewable energy sources for data centre operations, as well as data centre automation and the l...

Besides trying to stop the hemorrhaging of its communications business, CenturyLink's management has also found itself embroiled in investor debate over some of its recent decisions. These include more than halving the company's dividend payout, paying down debt, and investing in areas of the business that are still growing. In its first-quarter 2019 report released on May 8...

UC adoption across the world will increase significantly according to a survey by Ribbon Communications. It found that many organisations yet to invest in UC technology plan to do so over the coming two years, with 68% of large (more than 1,000 employees) companies and 46% of small (1-20 employees) companies set to adopt UC during the period. Among mid-sized companies, 67% o...

Organizations deploying unified communications as a service want to achieve the full benefits of migrating their communications to the cloud. But organizations that don't evaluate their network configuration prior to deployment risk missing full UCaaS benefits. The wrong network setup can cause issues for communication applications, like voice over IP and video conferencing....