Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud: Cost optimisation, FinOps and GenAI key takeaways

Flexera has admitted that 2024 is a ‘complex’ year for cloud adoption as the company publishes its latest State of the Cloud report – and while cost optimisation remains key, sustainability is slowly emerging as an important differentiator. The report – the 13th – is often regarded as a benchmark study for the industry, with… Read more »

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Akamai extends segmentation solution to hybrid cloud environments

Cloud computing company Akamai Technologies, has extended its segmentation solution, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, to hybrid cloud environments.  Extending Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to the cloud helps reduce attack surfaces and helps contain attacks targeting cloud-native workloads. Network security professionals can seamlessly manage segmentation across their public cloud environments with the benefits of faster time to policy… Read more »

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Rakuten Symphony launches Telco Cloud training through TIP Academy

Rakuten Symphony has launched a Telco Cloud curriculum on the Telecom Infra Project’s industry-neutral training platform, the TIP Academy. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Academy, launched by TIP in collaboration with Accenture in June 2022, is an industry neutral training platform for the Telecom industry.  With a prime focus on educating and upskilling the Telecom… Read more »

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Huawei Mobile Services partners with AVOW and Turismo Andalucía ‘to strengthen bonds’

HUAWEI Mobile Services (HMS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Council of Tourism, Culture, and Sports of the Andalusian Government (Turismo Andalucía) and marketing agency AVOW, aiming to advance mutual goals and capture business opportunities. The MOU signing ceremony took place at MWC 2024, held in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei was represented by Ning… Read more »

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N-able expands Technology Alliance Program for open ecosystem built for MSPs

N-able, a global software company helping IT services providers deliver remote monitoring and management, data protection as-a-service, and security solutions, has added new vendor alliances to its expanding and enhanced Technology Alliance Program (TAP), a growing, open ecosystem built for MSPs. Designed to accelerate innovation and deliver more robust, secure, and differentiated integrations at scale… Read more »

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Optiva accelerates competitive edge with generative AI-enabled real-time BSS

Optiva, which provides telecoms firms with cloud-native billing, charging and revenue management software on private and public clouds, has revealed that its business support systems (BSS) platform now allows users to leverage generative AI (GenAI) technology to quickly highlight new, targeted revenue opportunities and dramatically reduce customer churn. Full integration with Google Cloud’s BigQuery and… Read more »

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Kyndryl and Veeam team up to deliver comprehensive cyber resiliency

Kyndryl, a technology infrastructure services provider, and Veeam Software, a specialist in data replication and protection software, have formed a global strategic alliance. The deal will focus on providing customers with resiliency services supported by innovative technology, expert infrastructure management and incident recovery services. Under the alliance, Kyndryl will now be a Veeam Accredited Service… Read more »

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Co-op to transition from data centres to cloud with TCS

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has expanded its partnership with The Co-operative Group Limited (Co-op), one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives with interests across food, funerals, insurance and legal services, to adopt a cloud first strategy that will support the group’s business growth.   TCS has been the strategic partner to Co-op for the past 14… Read more »

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Generative AI ‘commonplace in cloud business models’ – as Azure leads the way

More than seven in 10 cloud environments are employing managed AI services according to a new analysis, with the common use of OpenAI, be it directly or through Azure SDKs, suggesting that generative AI tools are ‘quickly becoming commonplace in cloud business models.’ The study, from cloud security platform provider Wiz, analysed more than 150,000… Read more »

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Vonage and AWS leverage communications and network APIs to deliver solutions

Vonage, a specialist in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation and a part of Ericsson, has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the availability of new solutions to millions of AWS developers through AWS Marketplace.   This collaboration will bring together Vonage’s platform, which is based on communications APIs and network APIs… Read more »

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