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AI driving rapid change in network computing and data centers (Reader Forum)

In the world of network computing and data centers, any 2022 planning report destined for company decision makers likely has three familiar words in the summary text: distributed IT infrastructure. Accelerated change brought on by the pandemic is forcing companies large and small to reimagine...

CSPs must revisit the data layer of their networks to capture 5G opportunity: A Q&A with Volt Active Data

'There is an important confluence of IT data and OT data that is going to drive the SLAs and services provided by CSPs,' says Volt Active Data exec According to Dheeraj Remella, the chief product officer at Volt Active Data, 5G stands out from...

Tupl CEO: ‘The role of automation is paramount’

Using artificial intelligence and big data, Tupl is helping CSPs strengthen their core business For communications service providers (CSPs), 5G simultaneously presents an extraordinary opportunity and an extraordinary challenge. The opportunity is to enable the digitalization of industry at a scope never seen before. The...

Edge computing is the key that can unlock 5G’s true potential (Reader Forum)

The 5G hype has been a beating drum growing louder over the years, and across industries, the value it can bring is clear. Retailers and grocery stores are utilizing connected robots within warehouses to move and stack supplies. The energy industry has vehicles on-site...

American Tower expands data center footprint with DataSite acquisition

American Tower's portfolio now consists of nine data centers American Tower has closed the acquisition of data center owner/operator DataSite. The tower company will now assume responsibility for all management and operations of DataSite’s two data center locations in Atlanta, Georgia and Orlando, Florida. This deal...

Opensignal to be acquired by Comlinkdata

Comlinkdata will combine Opensignal with previously acquired Tutela into a business that will serve over 140 clients in more than 60 countries Opensignal is being acquired by analytics company Comlinkdata in a transaction expected to close by the end of this month.   The Opensignal acquisition...

M1 to use 5G standalone for security, monitoring applications at Singaporean marina

M1’s 5G standalone network covers nearly 50% of Singapore Singapore’s M1 and its sister company, Keppel Land, have introduced several 5G services at the Keppel Bay Marina, including automated ship analysis and real-time monitoring capabilities. The new services will be offered on M1’s 5G Standalone...

AT&T, Google Cloud expand 5G and edge collaboration targeting enterprise customers

The partnership involves two edge solutions: AT&T Multi-access Edge Compute and AT&T Network Edge with Google Cloud Last week, AT&T and Google announced an expansion to a 5G and edge collaboration, initiated March 2020, that involved new solutions across AT&T’s 5G and Google Cloud’s edge...

Cloudera to go private in $5.3b acquisition

Enterprise data analytics and cloud company Cloudera is being taken private in an all-cash $5.3 billion transaction with affiliates of private equity companies Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2021. "This transaction provides substantial...

AT&T to provide private 5G, MEC to USC’s cancer research center

AT&T Business CEO: '5G is going to be a game-changer for the healthcare industry' AT&T is deploying a private 5G network, as well as Multi-access Edge computing (MEC), at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine to support cancer...

Vodafone, Google Cloud to develop global platform to ‘drive data analytics, insights and learnings’

According to Vodafone and Google Cloud, the data platform can process around 50 terabytes of data per day Vodafone and Google Cloud recently expanded an existing agreement to jointly build a new integrated data platform with the added capability of processing and moving huge volumes...

Netscout: DDoS attacks hit a record ‘new normal’ as cybercriminals exploit pandemic conditions

Netscout observed a record 10 million dedicated denial of service (DDos) attacks in the second half of 2020, and the lessons it distilled from the resulting data are pretty bleak: Even as the world grappled with the impacts of a global pandemic, cybercriminals were...

How virtualization helped Dell make a pandemic pivot

Danny Cobb, fellow and vice president of engineering for Dell Technologies’ telco systems business, remembers his company cruising into early 2020: Kicking off a new fiscal year with its operating plan in place, supply chain nailed down and factories humming; people coming into the...

Air Force wants to use 5G in space, issues request for information

The Air Force is interested in 5G's mmWave, MIMO and RAN slicing capabilities At the end of 2020, AT&T brought 5G to three U.S. Air Force bases: Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska; and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. But connecting its bases...

Network automation: ‘Everything comes back to data quality’

A data-first approach to operational excellence As operators consider any type of artificial intelligence- or machine learning-based network automation projects, "Everything comes back to data," according to Damion Rose, senior product manager of mobile signaling and data analytics at BICS. "Using machine learning starts with...

GWS: Smartphone usage data could help forecast elections

Could smartphone usage data reveal voter insights that political polling might not catch? It's possible, according to GWS. GWS analyzed news consumption on smartphones from an opt-in consumer panel in the lead-up to the 2020 election and immediately after, and found that people in swing...

Nokia to migrate its entire IT infrastructure onto Google Cloud

Nokia has been focused on transitioning to a “cloud-first IT strategy” Earlier this week, Nokia said it will be migrating its entire on-premises information technology infrastructure onto Google Cloud, including all of its data centers, servers and software applications, marking a massive win for the...

CIA starts a federal tech research lab

In yet another illumination of the extent to which technological capability is increasingly seen as tied to national security, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is starting up its first-ever federal lab program, with a broad focus on the intersection of technology and intelligence that...

Test and Measurement: Synopsys acquires semiconductor analytics company Qualtera

  Semiconductor design company Synopsys has acquired analytics company Qualtera, which focuses on analysis of semiconductor design and manufacturing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Synopsys said the transaction was not material to its financials. Synopsys said that Qualtera's analytics, combined with Synopys' own...

IBM, Singapore industry partners to trial 5G manufacturing use cases

The trials are related to IBM's recent 5G edge computing offerings IBM is working with Singaporean local mobile carrier M1 and South Korean vendor Samsung to trial 5G use cases for the manufacturing sector. The trials will explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and...

Using 5G to ‘unleash’ the power of farming

CISCO: '5G can really unleash a farm’s power' As John Deere’s Director of Intelligent Solutions Nancy Post has explained to Enterprise IoT Insights, connected farming is becoming a more popular endeavor for the modern farmer, and as smart farming gains attention, technologies like artificial intelligence,...

Survey predicts pandemic-driven innovation in workplace, health, big data

  The novel coronavirus may drive new innovation in the workplace, healthcare and in the application of big data analytics and artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of technology executives by the Atlantic Council think-tank. The Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center surveyed 100 tech experts about...

Verizon Media launches open source, big data COVID-19 search engine

The Verizon Media search engine has become a potentially life-saving COVID-19 tool  Last month, the White House unveiled its COVID-19 Open Research Data (CORD-19) initiative, an open source, big data processing program to aid treatment and vaccine research. But, as you might expect, there is...

Stay-at-home orders shift European app usage, umlaut finds

  Business, educational and communications application usage is up, while shopping apps are seeing a decline in usage across Europe as people adjust their mobile app usage to their needs during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Those conclusions come from network benchmarking and analysis company umlaut, which...