IBM said the acquisition of Apptio is a 'continuation of deep focus and investment in hybrid cloud and AI'
IBM this week announced plans to purchase Apptio, a financial and operational IT management and optimization (FinOps) software company, for $4.6 billion. According to IBM, the acquisition...
Ooredoo said it will explore the Dell APEX offerings to simplify its cloud experiences
Middle East operator Ooredoo Qatar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dell Technologies with the aim of strengthening an existing collaboration, simplifying digital transformation initiatives and exploring new growth opportunities...
With the rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, artificial intelligence is having a major moment.
This webinar will discuss:
How operators are rethinking network and business strategies, with an eye on distributing compute to reside alongside high-value, latency-sensitive applications
What the outlook is for AI...
This report dives deep into the challenges, solutions, possibilities and capabilities arising from the cloudification of networks and what the future holds for the wider telecoms industry.
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Stay up-to-date on the latest trends in telecom. The report will provide insights...
AI and hybrid cloud drive IBM Consulting’s growth platforms
The types of generative AI solutions drawing investor and media hype at the moment—ChatGPT-4 and MidJourney, for instance—are huge models with broad capabilities. But for enterprises looking to add generative AI to their technology strategy in...
Valued at $145,700,000, the deal will see Verizon provide USPS with infrastructure upgrades, including a transition to cloud capabilities
Verizon Business this week entered a 10-year contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS). Valued at $145,700,000, the deal will see Verizon provide infrastructure upgrades,...
Dell'Oro lowered the MEC market's expectations by more than 20% for 2023
According to analysts at the Dell’Oro Group, the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) market has “failed to materialize.” As a result, the firm lowered the market’s expectations by more than 20% for 2023.
“The MEC...
Broadcom first announced plans to acquire VMware for $61 billion in May 2022
Broadcom’s plan to acquire VMware for $61 billion, first announced in May 2022, has encountered another setback. Regulators in both Europe and the U.S. are still looking into the proposed merger and...
By partnering with AWS on public cloud, operators can leverage renewable-powered data centers and silicon innovation to drive 5G sustainability strategies
Against the backdrop of a shift from shareholder to stakeholder capitalism, the current and future impacts of climate change, and the simple moral imperative,...
It’s hard to imagine an application today that isn’t reliant on connectivity to different clouds, multiple microservices and highly distributed users. To paraphrase the poet John Donne for our modern IT world — “No application is an island, entire of itself.” A simple migration...
The data centers will support the development of artificial intelligence technology and other tools, said Google
Google revealed plans this week to build two more data centers in Ohio. The additions, which Google said will support the development of artificial intelligence technology and other tools,...
Microsoft continues its cloud gaming push, even in the face of recent opposition from U.K. regulators
Despite Microsoft’s ongoing battle with U.K. regulators regarding its attempted takeover of gaming giant Activision Blizzard, the tech company has signed a 10-year agreement with Nware to make Xbox...
Edge federation refers to the interconnection and coordination of multiple edge computing resources and services from different providers, in order to deliver a more comprehensive and distributed computing infrastructure. In a recent interview at the Telco Cloud & Edge Forum, Deutsche Telekom Product Manager...
Ericsson and AMD will jointly explore the combination of AMD EPYC processors and T2 Telco accelerator
Ericsson has partnered with AMD to further the development of its Open RAN and cloud RAN ecosystem. According to the companies, the collaboration will result in additional processing technologies...
Innovations in software and software disaggregation are driving telecom change on two levels, according to Per Kangru, technologist and business development expert in the CTO’s office at Viavi Solutions. Carriers can either do new things to drive automation or efficiencies within their own network;...
In January 2022, Microsoft announced plans to acquire Activision for $68.7 billion
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard, claiming the deal would lead to “reduced innovation and less choice” in the cloud gaming market.
Announced in January...
The first part of this Q and A with Vodafone’s Joanna Newman, senior director of technology partnerships, covers the operator’s dedicated vs. distributed MEC approach, the logic behind its various hyperscaler partnerships, and addresses how many MEC use cases involve common sets of building...
Whether its considering a private 5G network coupled with a dedicated mobile edge computing (MEC) solution for an enterprise, or a consumer-facing use case that taps into more widely distributed computing infrastructure, Vodafone has recognized that addressing this nascent space requires a strong focus on...
MEC is delivering low-latency, real-time enterprise applications
As has been pointed out by operators on recent earnings calls, the market for advanced 5G-enabled services—things like mobile edge computing (MEC) combined with public and private 5G, and private 5G itself—has been slower to create revenues than...
MEC applications, architectures and go-to-market strategies
Mobile edge computing (MEC), particularly when combined with cellular connectivity, is seen as a new revenue driver for both operators and hyperscalers. In fact, market dynamics are pushing the two increasingly closer together in terms of developing, packaging and...
Recent research shows moving more workloads to the edge can optimize overall utilization and efficiency
Part of optimizing networks now means not just optimizing service performance and RF performance, but placement of compute workloads: In a data center or at the edge? This has implications...
In designing and delivering MEC (and private network) solutions, T-Mobile US touts a “just-right” approach to meet customers where they are
In addition to moving their own network and administrative workloads into private, public and hybrid cloud environments, operators are simultaneously partnering with hyperscalers to...
A distributed network architecture requires distributed OSS/BSS functionality
As it considers the move from 5G Non-standalone to 5G Standalone, alongside deployment of mobile edge computing (MEC) infrastructure, Three UK is mindful of the concurrent need to evolve OSS/BSS functionality. Speaking at the recent Telco Cloud...
