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Haier Europe appoints Orange Business to supply connectivity, computing, security

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...

The importance of personal cloud solutions in safeguarding data and delivering services (Reader Forum)

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 and Google Cloud extend strategic partnership

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, Ericsson partner with a focus on integrated cloud-native solutions

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...

Microsoft pledges $4.3 billion cloud, AI investment in France

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 to invest an additional $8.8 billion in Singapore by 2028

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...

Fujitsu and ServiceNow to open Industry 4.0 lab, bust data silos, optimise genAI

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...

NVIDIA to buy AI edge-cloud management platform Run:ai

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)...

Vodafone’s “big bet” to hive-off and hyper-scale IoT with Microsoft

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...

“We’re agnostic, but we have a view” – Accenture on how to captain Industry 4.0

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...

‘Complexity kills’ – Ray Ozzie sings a Blues (to rouse the IoT crowd)

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...

Editorial Report: The move to 5G Standalone and creating a cloud-native telco

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...

AWS to launch infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026

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...

Red Hat talks-up edge AI advances for private 5G and Industry 4.0

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...

Enterprise, enterprise, enterprise – MWC is not a telco show, 5G is not a telco story

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, O2 Telefonica announce cloud RAN deployment

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...

Telecom Cloud Core Optimized with the AMD-based PowerEdge R7615

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...

Masmovil partners with Singtel for B2B 5G platform

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...

#TBT: Android displaces Symbian; Verizon’s billion-dollar cloud buy; Obama calls for wireless broadband expansion … this week in 2011

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! Android takes top...

Five easy pieces – how to get a tune out of Industry 4.0

This is not a definitive guide; this is not an exact science. But the logic is plain – to present a sensible way to think about devising an Industry 4.0 system that hits the mark. Because, when novel technology is brought to market by...

Hitachi splits Vantara in two – separates IoT/IT/OT solutions from cloud infra services

A piece of news from the back-end of last year, but worth memorialising here, in light of Hitachi Vantara’s early role in driving Industry 4.0 with its Lumada IoT platform, and its strategy and thought leadership to develop the co-creation story in digital transformation...

Vodafone to spin-off IoT unit in 2024 with major Microsoft cloud tie-up

Vodafone’s IoT connectivity unit is to become a standalone business by April of next year (2024) following a major 10-year deal with Microsoft that will see both firms invest in the business, and the UK-based operator also commit $1.5 billion over the period to...

Vantage Data Centers lands $6.4b investment driven by ‘unprecedented cloud and AI demand’

Vantage's longtime financial backers lead the investment, driven by anticipated need for more data center capacity Vantage Data Centers has garnered $6.4 billion in equity investment, lead by digital infrastructure investment company DigitalBridge and tech backer Silver Lake, that the data center company says will...

Appetite for disruption – 1NCE looks to turn IoT software market on its head

Germany-headquartered IoT MVNO 1NCE has announced a series of software plugins in its cloud-based connectivity management platform to accelerate IoT development projects, and spearhead its development as an open software system for global IoT connectivity. It claims to have posted a 33 percent jump...