Edge Computing

Visual commerce leader Chris Beaudin of ATLATL Software tells the US manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler how COVID-19 is now affecting our buying processes.

Verizon Business has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BlueJeans Network, an enterprise-grade video conferencing and event platform. Terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed by the New Jersey-based telco, but The Wall Street Journal which broke the story, put the price at “less than $500 million (€460 million)”.

Seamster, the global edge computing initiative dedicated to enterprise use case exploration and adoption, has been launched with support from the end-to-end edge value chain.

New research suggests the hyperscale community should remain in a strong position amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, says Chris Burden, chief commercial officer at Memset.

Microsoft has IT business all over the globe. It is equipped with a comprehensive product portfolio ranging from Azure platform to Microsoft 365 Dynamics that cover a significant part of business applications.

A new study from Juniper Research found that the total number of IoT connections will reach 83 billion by 2024, rising from 35 billion connections in 2020. This represents a growth of 130% over the next 4 years. The research identified the industrial sector as a key driver of this growth. It forecast that this expansion will be driven by the increasing use of private networks that leverage cellular networks standards.

Networking, collaboration and security technology specialist, Nowcomm has formed two new partnerships in the cybersecurity sector. The company is partnering with AT&T Cybersecurity, previously AlienVault, and human cyber risk management platform Cybsafe. This adds to the Cisco Gold partner’s existing portfolio, which includes cybersecurity solutions such as Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Meraki.

Councils in the UK expect to save over £195million (€221 million) in 2020 by introducing artificial intelligence technology techniques, according to a national survey of local authorities.

The severity of cyber-breaches has become more and more intense in recent years. As a result, security experts at Specops Software have conducted research into which Western European countries are the most cyber-insecure for citizens.

In common with other regions, companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) continue to view hybrid cloud as their ‘ideal’ IT model. But, according to the annual Enterprise Cloud Index from Nutanix, specialists in enterprise cloud computing, moving applications out of the data centre to implement this approach is taking longer than anticipated.

People have been talking about the connected car for years, but the reality is far from the hype, warns Bill Leisenring, CTO at Aptiv Connected Services.

For years, companies have been collecting data about all the factors that make up their business. By employing tech stacks to systematically gather and analyse data, many organisations have been able to optimise their businesses.