AWS, Microsoft and Google combined generate about 81% of revenues in the U.K. public cloud infrastructure services market
British media regulator Ofcom has initiated an investigation into whether Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s cloud computing dominance is a threat to market competition.
In a statement that acknowledged...
The new SSE offering expands Orange’s growing telco cloud cybersecurity portfolio
Orange, through its Orange Business Services and Orange Cyberdefense groups, and cybersecurity firm Netskope announced Thursday they’ll embed Secure Service Edge (SSE) functionality in the Orange Telco Cloud platform. The two firms are calling the new solution “carrier-class...
Optiva counts an unnamed Canadian telco among its customers for the new service
OSS/BSS software developer Optiva has announced that its Optiva Charging Engine is now available through Google Cloud Marketplace. The company claims it to be the first 5G telecom charging solution to be made available...
SASE market grows 30% in the second quarter
Against the backdrop of an inflationary economy and warnings signs of a recession, the combination of networking, security and other services at the enterprise edge is surging, according to recent analysis. Dell'Oro Group tracked 30% growth in...
The evolution of SD-WAN and promise of 5G are moving operators and SASE vendors closer together
As operators evolve enterprise portfolios to include not just advancements in SD-WAN but also leverage massive investments in 5G to support enhanced workforce mobility, security has come into sharp...
Business growth often requires the adoption of the latest technologies. These innovations include artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing (CC). While these are two separate technologies, recent advancements have shown the possibility and benefits of their integration.
In its broadest definition, AI refers to machines...
Hear from executives at AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and other leading telcos on how they’re using AI to build a competitive advantage.
Today, as telecoms support hybrid work scenarios, IoT devices become key components of network infrastructure, and providers expand customer services, the volume of data...
VMware’s annual event, back in person, gets a name change and perspective shift
VMworld is no more; VMware has changed its long-running developer event into VMware Explore. The renamed and greatly expanded event returned to San Francisco last week after a two-year physical hiatus, gathering thousands...
Communication Service Providers (CSPs) face common evolutionary challenges on the path from LTE to 5G and long after, like how to implement widespread coverage while managing unpredictable demand, and how to monetize the considerable investment they’ve already made and will continue to make in...
The new collab leverages Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service
International telco Orange and data center operator Equinix this week announced a collaboration that sees Orange deploying its New Generation International Network - eNGINe - using Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service.
The new partnership promises on-demand...
Aria combines and expands VMware’s vRealize and CloudHealth products
SAN FRANCISCO - At its VMware Explore event in San Francisco this week, VMware introduced Aria, a new multi-cloud management portfolio to help enterprises manage cloud infrastructure and cloud-native applications. Aria, the new branding for a...
Zayo CEO sees edge as requiring data center capacity, networking and other service support
Multiple mega-trends impacting how telecommunications operators strategically evolve their own businesses while delivering solutions for the digital transformation of their customers depend on access to fiber optic infrastructure. Whether that’s network...
DPU acceleration is now supported using Nvidia’s Bluefield 2 chips and Dell PowerEdge servers
SAN FRANCISCO: At its VMware Explore event Tuesday, VMware made several announcements, including major updates to its vSphere cloud compute and vSAN cloud storage software, sweeping changes to its edge compute platform and...
In disaggregated 5G networks, “the attack surface area has increased dramatically,” Microsoft Azure for Operators CTO writes
In its purest form, 5G is described as “cloud-native,” meaning that network workloads traditionally performed in purpose-built boxes are now run as software instances in centralized and decentralized...
The new partnership will accelerate 5G core and 5G SA MEC adoption, said Casa’s CEO
Editor's note: Comments from Casa Systems CEO Jerry Guo were added after this article was posted.
5G network solutions provider Casa Systems said this week that it’s partnering with Google Cloud to develop...
Key areas will include RAN, mobile roaming, user plane and telco/edge cloud
NEC and Fortinet have announced a new partnership aimed at helping Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with 5G security. Fortinet is supplying its security solutions like FortiGate, while NEC is providing professional network integration services for...
According to Ericsson, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G subscribers over the next decade
According to a new 5G cloud gaming report published by Ericsson’s strategy consulting arm inCode, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G...
Company says six markets have live deployments and 32 are customer-ready
Modular mini-data-center company Vapor IO says that its edge computing grid service is open for business in 32 markets across the U.S., with live deployments in six of those.
Vapor is playing up time-to-market...
Huawei recently held its Win-Win Innovation Week in late July 2022 in Shenzhen, China. After a flurry of presentations on a wide range of topics, it is possible to see how the telco landscape will continue to evolve over the next three to five...
The APAC expansion complements Google Cloud’s AMEA and LATAM buildouts
Google Cloud announced this week plans to set up new regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. The expansion will help to address burgeoning cloud demand in those countries and will address data residency and compliance standards,...
The deal will also enable AT&T to consolidate its existing data centers and modernize its operations
AT&T has tapped Oracle to provide additional cloud capacity and capabilities. AT&T already runs database and application workloads in Oracle Cloud, but the latest five-year deal will build on...
The 3GPP has defined an enabling layer to facilitate communication between the Application Clients and the Edge Application Servers
The latest iterations of 3GPP standards have placed added emphasis on support for edge computing, a distributed computing framework that brings computation and data storage...
Splunk, AWS, Broadcom lead the charge around the new framework effort, announced at a Las Vegas hacker conference
More than a dozen companies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Broadcom and data analytics firm Splunk are throwing their weight behind the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) Project. The...
Prelim earnings miss guidance by more than $1 billion
After the markets closed on Monday, Nvidia released preliminary financial results for its FY23 second quarter, which ended on July 31, 2022. The news is worse than Nvidia told investors it would be, and even worse than most...
