HyperConnectivity (comms)

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.

Intel has introduced its 3^rd generation Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio. These are designed to enable customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data centre, network and intelligent-edge environments. 

The independent global IoT specialist, KORE, has created an ongoing partnership with Dexcom Inc., a provider of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). This will rapidly deliver an innovative remote patient monitoring solution to assist care providers during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

As use of AI becomes even more pervasive, data scientists and organisations just ‘doing their best’ won’t be sufficient. Scott Zoldi, AI expert at FICO explains that with the rise of AI advocates, responsible AI will be the expectation and standard.

The Oxford Foundry has chosen four new innovative solutions it will support on the OXFO COVID-19 Rapid Solutions Builder. The four solutions were chosen by a team of international judges from more than 100 entries after a rigorous selection process – based on their ability to have a real, tangible societal impact, their viability and ability to implement and their potential for rapid growth.

Extreme Networks, Inc., a cloud-driven networking company, today announced Joe Vitalone has joined the company as chief revenue officer. Joe has more than 35 years of experience in sales, marketing, and operations management.

Major barriers to ’Internet of Things‘ (IoT) ownership and efficient device management have now been removed thanks to the latest release of the enterprise-grade IoT management solution, SOTI Connect v1.2.The enhanced solution addresses prevalent industry challenges around managing industrial and mobile printers and limited access sensors, through a single point of control.

Solar-powered high altitude platforms could solve the problem of rural connectivity in communities across the globe. They may also save lives – and economies – during the next global pandemic, too.

Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, UiPath today added conversational AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities to what it claims is the industry’s end-to-end hyperautomation platform.

Distributed organisations are continuously challenged with administering necessary security measures to thwart escalating cyberattacks to protect workforces outside of the protection of traditional networks. To simplify security deployment, management and visibility for organisations with growing branch footprints, SonicWall unveils new secure SD-Branch capabilities, and a complete line of new multi-gigabit switches, to cost-effectively scale and manage remote or branch locations. 

The race for 5G has dominated its fair share of telecoms headlines in recent times. Communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide have invested a vast amount on new network infrastructure. The race is now on, says Angela Logothetis, CTO of Amdocs Open Network, to identify the consumer use cases that CSPs can monetise to recoup the expenditure.

Remote workers have been targeted by up to 65,000 Google-brand impersonation attacks. So says the most recent ‘Threat Spotlight’ report from UK-based Barracuda Networks. This type of spear phishing scam uses branded sites to trick victims into sharing login credentials.

The world has changed. Conversations regarding global supply chains, reshoring and offshoring are now frequently a part of mainstream media and the wider public debate, says Luke Smoothy, director and founder of Get It Made.

Small Cell Forum (SCF) published research setting out how edge computing will impact the future of small cell networks, with particular focus on private cellular networks.

Based on the findings gathered by Positive Technologies’ experts testing on mobile networks, a new report highlights the cyber security risks to networks that originate with the GTP protocol – which is used to transmit user data and control traffic on 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. Non-standalone 5G networks are also vulnerable.