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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.
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As Google unveiled the first images of its self-driving car prototype, I could not help but notice its most prominent feature – the face across the front. This design element has suffered plenty in reviews and commentary, but I get it.
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We have fallen for the internet’s many charms hook, line and sinker. It has become an integral component of our social lives, business endeavours and daily entertainment, and expectations are raised for high-quality, superfast and consistent broadband.
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Innovation has become the buzzword in the telecoms industry.
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The recent hype around Big Data stems from its positioning as being “revolutionary”. In fact, data insights have been used for centuries. The difference with Big Data is that it gives organisations highly sophisticated capabilities to glean business insights from exponentially growing data volumes and sources, and put them to practical use.
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Although 1973 sounds like a long, long time ago, if we realise that 41 years ago this spring Robert Metcalfe conceived the first conceptual hints of what evolved into Ethernet while at MIT, the interval seems small.
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Your OCEANS need YOU: "International Telecommunications World" to promote the use of submarine cables to mitigate tsunami hazards and climate change.
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There was a time when infrastructure for towns and cities meant roads and railways. Back then, the town planners were thinking only about the transport of people, and not about the transfer of data.
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The fight for stateside wireless customers shifted from intense to very intense when regulators quashed AT&T’s planned purchase of T-Mobile in late 2011.
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I bought myself a 2014 present. My newest bracelet is black plastic and can tell me how many steps I’ve walked (2,551 by noon, without having yet made it to the gym), how many miles (1.6), how many flights of stairs I’ve climbed (three, which I would count as five), how many calories I’ve burned… you get the picture.
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You can scarcely read a paper these days without stumbling over commentary regarding the breach of customer data at popular retailer Target. Up to 110 million customers saw their credit and debit cards exposed to potential fraud in the incident.
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As in 2013, it looks like another booming year for the cloud industry.
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Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) is finally beginning to turn the corner, accelerating from hype to mainstream adoption.
