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There has been a paradigm shift in the way products and services are sold, largely driven by the advent of social media, the ability for complaints to go viral, and the availability of unbiased reviews.

Volkswagen, together with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and integration partner Siemens, is opening up the Industrial Cloud to other manufacturing and technology companies.

WekaIO (Weka), a specialist in high-performance and scalable file storage, announced today that WeRide, a smart mobility company with autonomous driving technologies, has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS). Claimed to be the world’s fastest shared parallel file system, WekaIO manages the artificial intelligence (AI) data pipeline from the edge to the core to the cloud.

Amdocs, has agreed to acquire Openet, an Ireland-based international provider of 5G charging, policy and cloud technologies. Together, the two companies aim to bring Openet’s open and network-centric technologies to Amdocs’ 350+ service provider customers worldwide, helping them to succeed in the wave of 5G advancements around cloud, edge compute, IoT and new customer experiences.

Verizon Business plans to simplify and accelerate end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) solution creation by providing all the critical components in the IoT value chain available to customers. These include connected devices, network / capability, cloud hosting and artificial intelligence.

A global survey measuring the impact and outlook of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses’ digital engagement strategies says the pandemic has significantly accelerated transformations. This is according to a study by cloud communications platform, Twilio.

Puppet, the industry standard for infrastructure automation, today released an open source Scenario Planning Toolkit for enterprise technology leaders to make more informed, strategic decisions and meaningfully drive forward their businesses during uncertain times. 

Software AG has launched an industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) smart social distancing solution to help companies around the world ensure their employees return safely to work.

The global spinal imaging market is expected to rise at over 5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2020 and 2030. Spurred by increasing volume of spinal surgeries and the advent of cutting-edge imaging technologies,a recent study forecasts that the spinal imaging market will reach an estimated valuation of nearly US$3 billion (€2 billion) by the end of 2030.

The latest Cybersecurity Threatscape report, published last week by Positive Technologies, found that during the first quarter of this year 34% of malware-based cyber attacks on organisations were ransomware attacks. Sectors that were targeted the most included government agencies, industry, finance, and healthcare.

InterSystems, has announced the public availability of a speed test of its flagship InterSystems IRIS data platform. The company is a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Post-pandemic Growth Opportunity Analysis of the Meetings Market, forecasts that the number of remote workers post-COVID-19 will be 500% greater than the pre-pandemic number, creating a massive demand for video meetings.

The implementation of IPv6 is the next step in the evolution of the internet, says London-based Heficed whichprovides full-range services for IP lease, monetisation, and management services. However, the company believes it will still be a long road ahead before it is fully adopted, and the pace at which the market is developing dictates the need for leveraging other solutions.

As you move your contact centre to the cloud, or implement cloud technologies, there are a wide range of issues you need to consider to make sure that the process is a success and that you maximise the opportunities that the cloud will bring. Here Jeremy Payne, VP of alliances at Enghouse Interactive, provides some useful tips to ensure your journey to the cloud runs smoothly.

Travellers to Botswana will soon be able to complete visa applications online and ease their entry into the country. The new service will also reduce the government’s investment of funds, time, paperwork, and manpower in visa applications

Cloud-first WAN company and end-to-end managed SD-WAN provider, Aryaka, is now partnering with Check Point Software Technologies. Together the companies intend to use Aryaka’s cloud-first managed SD-WAN solution and Check Point’s CloudGuard Connect, CloudGuard Edge and CloudGuard IaaS to deliver integrated security and SD-WAN as-a-Service.

Adobe, IBM and Red Hat today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation and strengthen real-time data security for enterprises, with a focus on regulated industries.

It is both incredible and disturbing what we are capable of when the lives, health, or security of ourselves and loved ones are threatened. Fear is an incredibly powerful tool. It has been used as a weapon to manipulate and control for thousands of years, says Eleanor Barlow, content manager for SecurityHQ.

With the acquisition of eSoftThings, a specialist in the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), based in Cesson-Sevigne (Rennes metropolitan area, France), Lacroix Group has consolidated its R&D division.

In today’s environment businesses need to move quickly to gain full control over their data assets if they want to reap the rewards of activated data. This will create an effective data supply chain that delivers demonstrable, transformative results that can be used to tackle immediate challenges and allow for organisations to reconfigure and reaffirm themselves for a post-COVID world. Zhiwei Jiang, CEO of the Insights & Data Global Business Line at Capgemini reports.

Global analytics and technology provider FICO has won Financial Crime Product of the Year at this year’s Risk Technology Awards, held by Risk.net.

The prevalence and severity of cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate every year. So say statistics from Cybersecurity Ventures which estimates that cybercrime will cost the global economy a colossal US$6 trillion (€5 trillion) per year by 2021.

Since the beginning of the current pandemic, false and unsubstantiated rumours of 5G and its impact on people’s health have been prevalent in social media. Phone masts have reportedly been damaged or destroyed in several European countries, says Adrian Taylor, regional VP of sales for A10 Networks.

Hardware security specialists with cyber security provider F-Secure has published a report detailing its investigation into a pair of counterfeit network switches.

Databarracks reports that 66% of companies in its annual survey did not have a dedicated pandemic response plan in place prior to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The global pandemic is reversing global communications trends as voice calls make a comeback, says Colin Abrey of Nextivity.

Mobileum Inc., a global provider of analytics-based roaming, network security, and risk management solutions, is to acquire SIGOS. This is the third acquisition that Mobileum has completed, following the purchase of WeDo Technologies in August 2019, and Evolved Intelligence in October 2018.