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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OTTs such as Facebook and Amazon have changed the dynamic of the subsea industry, a key topic for attendees at the first Subsea Connect Americas conference in Florida.
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Would you be able to pay a fine that’s 4% of your global group turnover? Europe’s new data protection rules are important for service providers across the world, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Advances in technology mean the cable landing station is being outmoded. But what are the risks and what is driving this change? By Natalie Bannerman
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With a number of subsea cable projects announced in 2017, capacity looks at some of the most innovative ones in the pipeline
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The IT sector consumes 7% of global electricity already, and the number is climbing.
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Equinix has announced a deal worth more than A$1 billion (US$792million) to acquire Australian data centre firm Metronode.
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An open access wholesale-only wireless (3G and 4G/LTE) network (OAWN) can, within just a few years, connect the 40% of people in South Africa who still do not have Internet access.
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Content from cloud applications, especially OTT video traffic, is increasingly dominating the internet.
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“We assumed the quantum threat wasn’t something that we would never have to worry about in our lifetime but the planning horizon for quantum computers should be about eight years”, says Richard Moulds, general manager at Whitewood Security
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No matter how hard we try to avoid it, the simple truth is that fibre-optic cables do fail from time to time. Helen Xenos, Director Portfolio Marketing, Ciena
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Industry body MEF has been working over the past several years to accelerate the industry transition to agile, assured, and orchestrated “Third Network” services delivered over automated, virtualised, and interconnected networks. Pascal Menezes, CTO, shares his view
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Intuitively we assume that landing a cable in a location creates jobs and growth. There’s the inductive reasoning: if it didn’t, no one would pay to lay the cables. But for many individual workers today, the arrival of technology in their workplace is bad news.
