Blog
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Marynet Bassily, director of procurement and supply chain, EMEA at Vantage Data Centers, explains how she has overcome many obstacles to establish a career spanning construction and telecoms – and how she is encouraging her company and the wider industry to focus on inclusivity -
Microsoft has quietly added voice calls to its Teams package. now, no one will need a fixed-line phone on their desk, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Leading OTT players know that extra capacity gives an in-region advantage. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue officer at Global Cloud Xchange writes
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From ageing infrastructure to on-demand energy models, Terry Storrar, MD of Leaseweb UK, writes about the new quick wins improving data centre sustainability
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While many believe satellite and fibre will save the day for unconnected Africa, Wim van Thillo, CEO and co-founder at Pharrowtech, has another suggestion
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With the exploding use of APIs to drive new partnerships and services across all markets, the demand for a compliant, core-and-edge data centre platform which can bring diverse sectors together will skyrocket.
Forthcoming events
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The wholesale communications industry has reached a tipping point. Once worth hundreds of billions, traditional communications service revenues are officially in decline – and wholesale carriers are feeling the pressure to recoup these losses.
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“Software is eating the world.” Marc Andreesen’s often-quoted phrase, which was originally published in 2011, is still true today.
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Due to the rapid pace of technology updates and innovations, the way enterprises are communicating with customers is evolving. Both the rules for businesses and expectations from customers have changed.
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When people have been talking about 5G for so long it’s hard to recognise that the biggest innovation in the industry is almost here. It’s not a reality yet – the early examples are really proofs of concept – but it’s coming, as Claudia Nemat, Deutsche Telekom’s board member for technology and innovation, says.
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The adoption of the cloud by enterprise IT departments has been uneven. There are several ways that enterprises use cloud services, but the different approaches often relate less to an overall strategic vision than to opportunistic decisions made over time.
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The hashtag call to action for the recently celebrated International Women’s Day 2019, is #BalanceforBetter, and I’m a big believer in the importance of achieving balance in the workplace; whether it is a gender balance or a balance of background, or even a balance of thought.
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“Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it," - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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SD-WAN is part of almost every carriers’ product roadmap. It puts control in the hands of the customer and delivers the flexibility that enterprises crave. The challenge is that when you look under the hood its built on legacy networking technology and puts limits on the kinds of applications and services it can support.
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We’re moving into the era of telecoms satellites the size of a plastic lunchbox, connecting the IoT or providing voice and data services around the world. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to some of the companies that will launch an expected 1,000 tiny satellites a year over the next decade
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Global business is changing, with the emphasis on global.
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We are delighted to welcome delegates to Atlanta for ITW 2019. Since the swell of interest in the city in the mid-90s, Atlanta has gone from strength-to-strength; it now stands as a totem of a New South, and is one of America’s most vibrant and diverse cities.
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All around the world the provision of robust connectivity to rural areas presents a significant challenge, requiring substantial investment in infrastructure and effective planning.
