Also launching a new data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. With growing customer demand and increasing cloud computing spending all over the globe, Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Tencent, today announced the launch of four new internet data centers (IDC) in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The addition of…
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The future for telcos depends on embracing open platforms
5G and edge computing will help define who wins in the booming digital economy. The pandemic has shown how cloud platforms and connectivity can come together to deliver ingenuity in how we work, live and connect. As telcos race to harness 5G and Edge, the critical question has now become:…
Read MoreBenefits of pushing more than half of the business to the cloud
Improving speed to market and the ability to discover new revenue streams through cloud can increase profit growth by up to 11.2 percent. Enterprises in six global regions will be looking to add up to US$414 billion in net new profits, annually, through effective cloud adoption, reported the latest research…
Read MoreIndian businesses choose the cloud
Businesses started adopting cloud to host a wide array of applications. The Indian public cloud services (PCS) market, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), revenue totalled US$3.6 billion for 2020, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker. For the second half of 2020…
Read MoreKey to delivering self-regulating business and IT systems
The need for automation will increase as enterprises move towards an era of digital resiliency. What do augmented, contactless, robotic process automation (RPA), and digital assistant technologies have in common? They are all essentially automation. And, automation is the foundation on which enterprises will build greater digital resiliency. Automation is…
Read MoreNetworking in the cloud
Dealing with cloud networking software. With growing adoption SaaS and public cloud IaaS, it’s no shocker that we’re getting an increasing number of calls about cloud networking. However, the tenor of these calls is actively shifting from purely “TO” the cloud (i.e., SD-WAN); to now also include networking “IN” the…
Read MoreSeven-Eleven advances competitive data cloud strategy
Intelligent data platform, Seven Central, drives real-time responsiveness and innovation. Seven-Eleven Japan is advancing its digital transformation strategy with Seven Central, its data cloud platform built on Google Cloud that consolidates and analyses data from its 21,000 stores across the country to drive real-time business decision making. At its core,…
Read MoreVodafone and Google develop global data platform
Intelligent data platform, Seven Central, drives real-time responsiveness and innovation. Vodafone and Google Cloud have announced a six-year strategic partnership to drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, insights, and learnings to support the introduction of new digital products and services for Vodafone customers simultaneously worldwide. In a…
Read MoreTelco cloud rollouts rapidly increase
Carrier VNF/CNF and NFVI markets to grow to more than US$29 Billion in 2025 Worldwide revenue for telecommunications network functions virtualisation (NFV) software, including virtual network functions (VNFs), network functions virtualisation infrastructure (NFVI), and cloud-native network functions (CNFs), will grow from a combined US$7.5 billion in 2020 to just over…
Read MoreData Centres set to increase capacity by 20 million square feet in 2021
The pandemic has encouraged them to accelerate the use of colocation services. The top 35 cloud and colocation service providers opened 10 million square feet of data centre capacity in 2H20 according to Omdia’s latest Cloud & Colocation Data Centre Building Tracker, despite lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 51…
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