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Ericsson to acquire CENX to boost network automation capability
Ericsson to acquire CENX – a US-based service assurance technology company. Approximately 185 employees will join Ericsson more
Ziften expands Board of Directors with appointment of California investment executive and entrepreneur Dave Lin
Investment executives/entrepreneurs Patrick O’Reilly and Jonathan Hung join Ziften as Board Observers more
International data flows: The European Commission launches the adoption of its adequacy decision on Japan
Following the conclusion of the EU-Japan talks on personal data protection in July 2018, the Commission yesterday launched the procedure for the adoption of its adequacy decision. The EU and Japan affirm that, in the digital era, promoting high privacy and personal data protection standards and facilitating international trade must and can go hand in hand
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Telefónica announces a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services to enable an easier journey to the cloud for enterprise
Telefónica will include Amazon Web Services (AWS) in its cloud offering to the B2B market and will have a team of trained and certified specialists in AWS more
BigID named “Most Innovative Startup” at 2018 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest
Judges select BigID for its solution in privacy and personal data protection and name Fortanix as runner-up more
Amazon Web Services now available to customers from data centers in the UK
Cloud pioneer expands global infrastructure footprint with the new AWS Europe (London) Region, enabling customers to run applications and store data in the UK at low latency
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Questions & answers on the Japan adequacy decision
Dell predicts 2018 as the year of open networking, digital transformation, merchant Silicon
Tom Burns, Senior Vice President of Dell EMC Networking: “The trend that I think that will continue into 2018 and even beyond is around digital transformation” more
How to bring web-scale networking to the enterprise
Not everything is moving to the cloud. In fact, the very technology developed for the cloud’s massive data centers is now being used to bring web-scale networking and automation to enterprise data centers
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Enterprise customers stand to gain from growing telco AI adoption, says GlobalData
Of the 181 telecom operators surveyed in 2018, 55% have already prioritized chatbots, machine learning and deep learning, yet over the next two years this number is expected to grow to 75%
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Gartner says worldwide IaaS public cloud services market grew 29.5 percent in 2017
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM
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