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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 painful emergence of 4G services in the UK has been well reported. But Europe’s most competitive mobile market has, in other respects, just enjoyed a remarkable year – albeit one that hints at challenges that lie around the corner.
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Cisco has come up with a smart play on words to define the next transformation of the internet. There will be 50 billion devices connected online by 2020, predicts the vendor. The internet of plain-old-things is not going cut it anymore. The internet is going to encompass everything.
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An oft neglected opportunity for wholesale services is the indirect channel. Many small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) buy telecoms, IT and other office services from local resellers that have greater knowledge and understanding of their needs than larger service providers do. In most cases, large carriers cannot afford to sell to directly these SMEs, due to their diversity as well as their requirements for on-going support, maintenance, and education. Instead, wholesalers should do what they can to support the resellers and aggregators that serve SMEs to capture revenues they would otherwise miss.
