ZTE Corporation, a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions launched the immersion liquid cooling server IceTank at the MWC Shanghai 2024. This server is specifically designed for data center scenarios requiring highly efficient cooling, showcasing ZTE's latest achievements in data center technological innovation and...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to make a €8.8 billion investment in Germany by 2026
Amazon announced a plan to invest an additional €10 billion ($10.7 billion) into its cloud infrastructure and logistics network in Germany, as part of the company’s efforts to expand its...
HPE confirmed had agreed a deal to acquired Juniper Networks for $14 billion in January 2024
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority confirmed it has started a preliminary investigation into the potential implications of cloud and edge solutions provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s $14 billion...
KT and Microsoft plan to jointly develop AI, cloud and IT services specifically tailored for the Korean market
South Korean carrier KT has formed a strategic alliance with U.S. tech giant Microsoft with the aim of collaborating on artificial intelligence, cloud and information technology initiatives.
The...
AWS confirmed it will invest $5 billion in Thailand by 2037
Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirmed that its new AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region will be live by early 2025, the company said in a release.
AWS said that this investment of more than 190 billion...
Home appliances manufacturer Haier Europe, part of the Fortune 500 smart-home division of China-based Haier Group, has appointed Orange Business to supply enterprise connectivity and IoT services, plus cybersecurity tools, to modernize and digitize its business operations in Europe, including its manufacturing and logistics...
According to Deloitte’s 2023 Connected Consumer Survey, 67% of mobile users have concerns about data security and privacy on their smartphones, while 62% of smart home users worry about data security and privacy on their smart home devices. This information sends a clear message...
Telefonica also said it is currently using Google Cloud internally to advance in its own digital transformation
Spanish carrier Telefonica and Google Cloud announced the renewal and extension of their partnership to help businesses accelerate their digital transformations.
The European operator noted that the agreement includes...
Dell and Ericsson will collaborate to develop tailored network cloud transformation plans and advise telcos on network architectures
Dell Technologies and Ericsson announced a strategic partnership with the aim of combining their expertise with telecom software, solutions and support, to help telecom operators in their...
The investment from Microsoft will go towards building infrastructure, workforce training and support for French start-ups
Microsoft has pledged to inject $4.3 billion into its French cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) operations by the end of 2027. The plan involves building advanced infrastructure, AI training...
AWS said this investment will be executed during the 2024-2028 period
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest an additional S$12 billion ($8.8 billion) into its existing cloud infrastructure in Singapore from 2024 to 2028, with the aim of meeting growing customer demand for...
Japanese IT consultancy Fujitsu and US business software provider ServiceNow are to combine on digital-change sales to enterprises. The duo have signed a deal to open a joint innovation centre (‘Innovation Center’) to showcase new edge/cloud analytics solutions to automate business processes in the...
News from last week; NVIDIA has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israel-based Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based compute management and orchestration software provider. The US chip firm, which has seen its stock value spiral upwards in line with demand for graphics processing units (GPUs)...
When news broke in January of Vodafone’s double deal with Microsoft to dichotomize and nebulise its airtime service operations, so its ancillary IoT unit is spun-off as a joint venture and its mainstream 5G business is reprogrammed in the cloud, there was lots of...
This article, recounting an interview with Accenture’s ‘cloud-first’ commander Jefferson Wang at MWC at the end of last month, might be taken as a companion piece, of sorts, with last week’s replay of an MWC meeting with Jennifer Artley (see here and here), in...
IoT is hard, man. Even talking about it, in any proper detail, is hard. Except if you’re talking with Ray Ozzie – over a breakfast croissant at MWC in Barcelona last month. Ozzie, the avuncular former tech chief at Microsoft, who steered the US...
As 5G marks its fifth year in commercial availability, network monetization is elusive and it seems the best is (hopefully) still to come. The shift from 5G Non-standalone to Standalone is a pivotal moment, introducing a new cloud-native core, revolutionary service-based architecture and dynamic management for...
As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than $5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch an AWS infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026.
AWS said in a release that the new infrastructure region will...
MWC, Barcelona; last week. Red Hat and Intel have developed a (relatively) easy and cheap edge/cloud computing solution for enterprises to deploy and multiply AI-based applications on private 5G networks. The duo have a reference solution, they said, which easily flexes distributed edge/cloud compute...
MWC 2024: Bleary-eyed and dead-on-our-feet, after 72 hours in Barcelona and 24 hours in briefings…
MWC is not just a telco show, anymore; it is not even a telecoms show, really. Which reflects well on the event itself, as well as the industry that puts...
Ericsson claimed the deployment is the first cloud RAN project in Europe
Swedish vendor Ericsson and German operator O2 Telefonica will start deploying Cloud RAN technology to support the latter’s 5G Standalone (SA) network in Offenbach, Germany in the first half of 2024.
The vendor said...
The transition of telecom core functions from purpose-built hardware to commercially available servers has introduced a number of challenges, including compute density, power efficiency, and performance optimization in a cloud environment. Since this large-scale migration kicked off about ten years ago, we’ve seen a...
The Paragon platform will soon be used by Masmovil clients, specifically, through Galician operator R
Spanish operator Masmovil has partnered with Singaporean telco Singtel to launch what it claims to be Spain's first all-in-one platform for the management of 5G networks, edge computing, cloud and...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
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