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Salesforce standardises global hybrid cloud infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced that customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Salesforce is standardising its global hybrid cloud infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Helping the company to drive business transformation at scale to meet customer demand, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a more flexible and consistent foundation for security-enhanced hybrid cloud deployments. The platform enables Salesforce to free up valuable developer...

19 September 2023 | Applications

Accenture: “Now is the time for every enterprise to adopt edge”

A new report from Accenture has argued that businesses need to act now to avoid falling behind with edge computing – yet integration with cloud, data and AI will be ‘essential’ to accelerate innovation affordably.

The study, titled ‘Leading With Edge Computing: How To Reinvent With Data And AI’, polled 2,100 C-suite executives globally and found more than four in five (83%) see edge as ‘essential’ to remaining competitive in the future. A similar number (81%) agreed...

13 September 2023 | Cloud

Deep Green and Civo announce new partnership to make cloud sustainable

Deep Green, the team pioneering carbon-neutral compute, has partnered with Civo, the only pure-play cloud native service provider. The agreement will see Civo become Deep Green’s exclusive cloud partner.

The new partnership between Civo and Deep Green will give Civo customers the exclusive opportunity to run their cloud workloads on Deep Green’s servers, giving them access to a groundbreaking sustainable cloud solution. Not only will this help companies move towards a...

11 September 2023 | Applications

Edge AI will soon be here – but not with the boom that many expect

The wait is almost over for the promise of artificial intelligence at the edge to become a reality – but a new market research report has warned that predicted growth would be ‘anything but steady.’

Market research firm IDTechEx, in its recent report, ‘AI Chips for Edge Applications 2024-2034: Artificial Intelligence at the Edge’, has predicted that the global market opportunity for AI at the edge will touch $22 billion USD (£17.4bn) by 2034.

The company cites...

1 September 2023 | AI

AustinGIS, Sky Packets, and Lumen to revolutionise smart city, connected experiences

Lumen Technologies is working with partners AustinGIS and Sky Packets to create new paths to improving the quality of life for city residents.

AustinGIS, a pioneer of smart infrastructure-as-a-service (SIaaS), and Sky Packets, an innovator in last-mile connectivity solutions, announced a strategic partnership with telecom industry disruptor Lumen, whose global network powers metro connectivity and long-haul data transport.

The concept of a smart city is around...

22 August 2023 | Applications

Edgio looks to protect API threats at edge with latest offering

Distributed edge platform provider Edgio has announced the availability of its new API security solution which utilises machine learning to protect enterprise APIs from evolving threats at the edge.

The company explains its rationale for such a product thus: “The rapid growth of APIs used to build microservices in cloud-native architectures has left many enterprises in the dark when it comes to knowing where, how many, and what types of APIs they have. With multiple teams...

3 August 2023 | Applications

Fully automated edge data centre launched for commercial service

Finish-based telecoms company Elisa Oyj has achieved a significant milestone in the field of edge computing with the successful deployment of its first fully automated edge data centre site, which is the second edge site to go into commercial production this year.

This groundbreaking project combines Wind River Studio Cloud Platform as the production-grade distributed Kubernetes solution for managing cloud infrastructure, User Plane Function (UPF) application from Elisa’s...

1 August 2023 | Data Centres

Technology investment to fast track UK large enterprise global growth in next year

UK CIOs of large global enterprises are increasing investment in technology to drive growth through global expansion in the next 12 months, according to new research by Expereo.

The survey of more than 200 CIOs in the UK shows that half (48%) have secured increased technology budgets specifically to deliver growth and overcome existing challenges.

The new insights, which are part of a global survey of over 650 CIOs in businesses with over $500 million annual revenues...

30 June 2023 | 5G

Ekinops’ SixSq announces three new app vendors in Nuvla Marketplace

Ekinops, a network access and virtualisation specialist, has revealed that three new application vendors has joined its Nuvla Marketplace of business applications, built by SixSq to accelerate the delivery and monetisation of edge computing solutions.

SixSq’s Nuvla is a proven B2B digital platform for industrialisation and automation of containerised edge applications and device management. Nuvla enables, among other things, the deployment of these applications on the Ekinops...

28 June 2023 | Applications

Cybersecurity for edge computing

Opportunities for edge computing in different industries are developing and adopting edge-native cybersecurity solutions should be integral.

As businesses strive to remain competitive and drive growth through digital transformation, enterprises increasingly incorporate edge computing into their operations.

The potential of edge computing as a catalyst for digital transformation is significant – the capability of edge computing to distribute applications and data to...