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Next Generation Data (NGD) has announced this week its hyperscale data centre near Newport, South Wales is now connected to the Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) network, a privately-owned next generation network with extensive global reach and unsurpassed coverage throughout Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Stefano Mazzitelli, President of Europe & USA, GCX said, “NGD’s world cla...

With the help of Nvidia, IBM has unveiled a new storage system that was built for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Called IBM Spectrum AI with Nvidia DGX, the tool is designed to be used with data tools like Spark, TensorFlow or PyTorch. It is a converged system combining software-defined file systems, all-flash drives and the Nvidia DGX-1 GPU. The system’s essentials...

China Unicom officially opened its branch in Paris, France. Liang Baojun, vice president of China Unicom, has said that the telecom company is committed to provide convenient, fast and reliable global information and communication services for its customers. The French subdivision is the 32th branch established by China Unicom overseas. It is another practical measure by Chi...

Following months of deliberations, DCD has announced the winners of the annual DCD Awards, celebrating the industry’s best data center projects and most talented people. The winners received their trophies on Thursday evening, at a gala ceremony held at the Lancaster Hotel in London, hosted by comedian Deborah Frances-White. The finalists were selected by an independent pane...

Unified communications is an exciting and growing market. No business, no matter the size of industry can thrive without excellent communication. Whether it’s the conversations you have with your customers or the collaborative moments between teams, business discussions make or break the future of any venture. However, as communication and the workplace as we know it continu...

Leading communications company, Avaya, recently announced a series of new updates designed to enhance channel partner growth. As part of the Avaya Channel Partner Summit in Dubai, Avaya leaders took to the stage to describe how the company planned on helping partners transform their offerings in the year ahead. Many of the new updates are featured as part of the Avaya Edge p...

telent Technology Services Ltd (telent), the UK’s leading mission-critical network solutions provider, today announced it has become a Mitel gold partner after demonstrating its commitment to delivering industry-leading solutions and services. The new partner status with the unified communications solutions provider recognises telent’s ability to professionally and effective...

ONI co-founder Mark Collins has stepped out of the CEO role to become CTO. Sales and Marketing chief Kevin Kivlochan (pictured), who also co-founded the business, takes over from Collins. The move is designed to bring a sharper customer focus to operations as Collins assumes responsibility for customer engagement and service, project management and professional services whil...

The market for networking switches and routers has just seen its biggest-ever quarterly sales, with third-quarter revenue topping the $11 billion mark for the first time, according to data from Synergy Research Group. The analyst firm said today it reckons the market has grown by just 1 percent overall this year, so it’s not exactly a comeback for networking hardware. Not su...

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has kicked off the tender for a networking framework worth £5bn. Network Services 2 will see services including unified comms, connectivity and mobile provided to central government and public sector organisations. The deadline for tenders is 31 January 2019, with the framework pegged to last for four years. The tender document does not list a ...