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Ericsson has unveiled a range of 5G-focused software products designed to support operators improve network efficiency and performance. -
BT has expanded its Carbon Network Dashboard, enhancing business customers' visibility into electricity consumption and carbon emissions for more effective infrastructure optimisation.
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Investment firm KKR has formed a partnership with power generation investors Energy Capital Partners (ECP) to create a $50 billion fund to invest in digital infrastructure opportunities aimed at supporting AI and cloud workloads.
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The 2024 Huawei Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) kicked off in Istanbul yesterday, with industry leaders gathering to discuss the future of mobile networks, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital transformation.
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The US Treasury Department has issued a Final Rule restricting US investments in foreign technologies deemed to pose a “national security concern,” specifically targeting sectors like semiconductors, quantum technology, and AI.
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
Forthcoming events
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Trust in the public telephone network has completely eroded, but NetNumber has a new solution to tackle the problem. Founder and VP products & strategy Douglas Ranalli, and senior product manager, Michael Campbell, explain
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Investments of up to US$428 billion are required from both the public and private sector, to achieve universal, affordable broadband connectivity by the end of the decade.
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This episode features editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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Former Nokia executive Sam Bucci has been appointed to a newly created role at Ribbon Communications Inc.
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DCIM is the new golden child of edge analytics. No longer just about building maintenance and IT services, the future of this innovation is big data, remote provisioning and continuous uptime.
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When you capture data at the edge, you have to be able to analyse the data whenever it is convenient, simply due to its sheer volume. Joe Speed, ADLINK field CTO peels back the layers of edge AI with Abigail Opiah, as attention begins to mount and cloud providers ready themselves for a piece of the action.
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As the age of the cloud dawns in Africa, the continent is becoming the next frontier for global, regional and local operators. With data centre capacity set to bring investments in excess of US$3 billion to 2025, Melanie Mingas crunches the numbers from the top markets.
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Without taking away the toll of the Covid-19 pandemic on lives and economies, events such as this have historically been the lever that catapults us into a new era.
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With new data centres and bespoke, industry-specific clouds, IBM Middle East and Africa is shifting its focus for the region. VP of enterprise and commercial, Hossam Seif El-Din, shares the details with Melanie Mingas
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Stephane Duproz, CEO of Africa Data Centres (ADC), has a statistic that shows the challenge faced by much of Africa and its data centre and telecoms operators. “Africa represents 15% of the world’s population and half of them are under 20 years of age,” he says. “They are extreme users of digital tools.” Alan Burkitt-Gray finds out more.
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The realities of remote connectivity have placed regional providers like Rack Centre on centre stage. Business continuity, cloud services and increased capacity demands are just a few things that are par for the course
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In this fireside chat at Datacloud Borderless 2020 - part of the usual Datacloud Congress that takes place in Monaco every year,- Digital Realty's CFO Andy Power talks to Data Economy's João Marques Lima from California, US.
