HyperConnectivity (comms)

The load balancer market is expected to grow to £4.7billion by 2023, and trends such as mobile broadband, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, virtualisation, remote working, and bring your own device (BYOD) have helped to fuel this growth, says Anthony Webb, EMEA vice president at A10 Networks.

Vilicom is providing a mobile network during the construction, development and deployment of what will be the offshore wind farm, Orsted’s Hornsea Two.

VIAVI Solutions’ 13th annual State of the Network global study of enterprise networking and security challenges, released today, shows that IT teams critically require better visibility into the network.

Birmingham City Council’s Information, Technology and Digital Service (IT&D) is teaming up with Nutanix to migrate its legacy hardware to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Fabienne Dulac, Deputy CEO of Orange Group and CEO of Orange France and Nicolas Wolff, vice chairman and general manager of Boralex Europe, announced the conclusion of a Corporate Renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

In the ongoing push for more secure IoT devices and applications, the hardware choices for embedded security are growing dynamically.

Global safety charity, Lloyd’s Register Foundation today launched a report called Operational Cyber Security for the Industrial Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities. It highlights an impending threat to critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, given the growing reliance on the Internet of Things (IoT), say Robert Hannigan, executive chairman international at BlueVoyant and Sadie Creese, professor of Cyber security, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Customers of Microsoft Azure can now access the MYHSM fully-managed, PCI-compliant, Payment HSM service. By using the latest Thales PayShield 10K’s to execute a full cloud deployment, payments HSM Service provider, MYHSM reports users can eliminate the need for a physical Payment HSM infrastructure, thereby providing businesses with a full digital experience.

“Virtual SIM card plan is instantly connecting users to the world’s mobile network in select countries worldwide.”

G-Core Labs, an international provider of cloud and edge solutions, has launched Meet, a universal video call service for business based on WebRTC technology.

Whether you are an established designer or an entrepreneur looking to turn a new idea into reality, getting parts and products manufactured can be a daunting prospect.

GTT Communications, Inc, a global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, reports that GTT’s chief revenue officer Ernie Ortega has been named as the interim CEO while the Board continues its search for a new CEO.

Microsoft Teams, the hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365, and Google Meet, the video communication service developed by Google, have both been integrated into the Asite platform.

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has meant conventional banks are finding themselves under pressure to act like their more agile financial technology (FinTech) counterparts, by adopting technology to enable existing and prospective customers to access the services they require remotely rather than face-to-face.

For those ready to say “Yes” to the virtual workplace, but who need some guarantees.

Companies are increasingly asking how we can make their transition to a mobile, virtual workplace more secure, efficient, and cost-effective in the long term. The answer, says Jacques Bonifay, Transatel CEO, is it’s all in the (cellular) connectivity.

As we approach four months since essentially the entire world went on lockdown, telcos have gone through a very mixed experience.

More than half of all distribution centres are still using paper to pick, pack, and ship. The results from this archaic approach are high levels of mis-picks, mis-packs, and mis-ships. Enter 5G. 5G networks offer paper-based, antiquated distribution centres (DCs) the opportunity to build smart facilities and create new revenue streams, says Thomas R. Cutler. Warehouse automation statistics show that automation is making a big impact on warehouses and distribution centres.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has arguably been one of the most disruptive technologies in the past few years. AI has played a vital role in progressing technology advancements across a variety of industries and is set to make big changes in the future.

Lenovo has launched new Internet of Things (IoT) solutions called ThinkIoT Back to Work, for businesses returning to work after the coronavirus pandemic.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has launched Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service that aims to allow customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. Among the first customers will be Slack and SmugMug.

Verizon has joined forces with Digital Catapult, the UK-based advanced digital technology innovation centre, to launch an immersive accelerator programme to develop innovative 5G solutions for enterprises.

Colt Technology Services has today launched multi-cloud access on its SD WAN platform.

Crowdsourced security company, Bugcrowd has released its 2020 Inside the Mind of a Hacker report, studying the global hacking community. One of its key findings is that human ingenuity supported by actionable intelligence of the Bugcrowd platform were found to be critical ingredients in maintaining a resilient infrastructure.

Intellectual property (IP) represents one of the enterprise’s most valuable assets – an asset that is becoming increasingly vulnerable to compromise, thanks to the rapid escalation of digitalisation, says Jan van Vliet, VP EMEA at Digital Guardian.

EfficientIP, a provider of network security and automation solutions specialising in DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM), has launched Cloud IPAM Sync, a new service that enables IT managers to improve control over applications hosted in multi-cloud environments.

What is edge computing?

Edge computing is a new computing model which promises to radically alter how businesses interact with the physical world, says Tom Urquhart, SVP, global edge solutions at IOTech.

5G is considered as one of the market opportunities in the coming years, with large scale roll-out of infrastructures and rapid adoption of 5G devices and services. So says a new report by Cambridge, UK-based IDTechEx.