Dubber joins major vendors in IBMs new cloud for telcos

Nokia and Samsung sign up.

By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp on Thursday became the latest U.S. technology company to launch a cloud platform directed at telecom operators

We hope you’re doing okay, thank goodness it’s Friday. Today’s Coffee Briefing delivers you the latest on the Ontario budget, IBM, and so much more. The post Coffee Briefing, November 6, 2020 - Ontario budget highlights, telco news from IBM, free tools for MSPs first appeared on IT World Canada.

The growth of Alibaba’s cloud business is outpacing both AWS and Microsoft in the third quarter of 2020, with the Chinese firm capitalising on the country’s early recovery from the pandemic. Alibaba’s cloud division brought in revenues of 14.89 billion yuan (£1.71bn) in the three months ending 30 September. That’s a 60% increase year-on-year, representing faster growth than the 29% recorded by AWS

IBM Corp. is sharpening its focus on the telecommunications sector with the introduction of IBM Cloud for Telecommunications, a new platform designed to ease carriers’ shift to 5G. IBM Cloud for Telecommunications was announced on Thursday. Wireless carriers are spending billions of dollars to upgrade their networks to the high-speed 5G standard, which promises far faster [] The post IBM targets

Bears, scares and ransomware Well, what a year it's been. 2020 kicked off as it meant to go on, with news emerging from China of a new virus which lead to a swiftly imposed lockdown in the city of Wuhan. Looks grim, we thought, but it will probably peter out like previous viruses before it. How wrong we were. To coincide with our Deskflix Cyber Security event, here’s a look back at t

When Alibaba entered the cloud infrastructure market in earnest in 2015 it had ambitious goals, and it has been growing steadily. With that number, it has passed IBM’s $1.65 billion revenue result (according to Synergy Research market share numbers), a significant milestone. For example, Amazon announced $11.6 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue for its most recent quarter, while Microsoft’s

The AWS/government deal will see public sector organisations benefitting from economies o The UK government has signed a new deal with AWS to speed up the adoption of cloud technologies in public sector organisations. On Monday, the government’s procurement agency Crown Commercial Service (CCS) signed a three-year Memorandum of Understating (MoU) with AWS, which treats all participat

​Australia-founded AWS cloud consultancy firm Versent has turned to fresh talent from the likes of PwC and IBM as it works to bolster its Asian presence.