Ericsson introduces Cloud RAN for 5G

Nordic vendor will help manage 50 per cent of 5G traffic going through BT and its EE provider Ericsson has won a huge contract to provide technology for BT's 5G networks in major cities across the UK. The Swedish firm said it would eventually manage 50 per cent of traffic across BT’s network, as well as across its EE brand. 🇬🇧 @Ericsson has been selected as BT’s #5G partner for Lond

Shutterstock/MartaDMIt’s widely believed that social media conspiracy theories are driven by malicious and anonymous “bots” set up by shadowy third parties. But my new research – which examined an extremely successful COVID-19 conspiracy theory – has shown that ordinary citizen accounts can be just as culpable when it comes to spreading dangerous lies and misinformation. The pandemic has fuelled

After a couple of weeks of rumor, as well as a couple of years of hearsay, AMD has gone feet first into a full acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Xilinx. The deal involves an all-stock transaction, leveraging AMDs sizeable share price in order to enable an equivalent $143 per Xilinx share current AMD stockholders will still own 74% of the combined company, while Xilinx stockholders will own 26%. Th

The firm says its new storage cluster can enable AWS EBS-like scale-out cloud storage in smaller providers’ data centers.

Cisco has upgraded some of its core software packages to help customers manage, control and automate functions in hybrid and multicloud data-center environments.With the needs of the pandemic-driven, highly distributed workforce as a backdrop, Cisco is looking to provide visibility and insights into what’s happening across customers’ cloud infrastructure. At the same time it’s busting the siloed I

The Darling Downs (Photo: Paul Budde) In October 2020, I went on a two-week tour into Queensland’s Outback, traveling through various landscapes from pastoral and agricultural lands to savanna and the desert. Leaving Brisbane, past Toowoomba, you enter the Darling Downs. This is one of the richest agricultural areas in Australia. British Botanist Alan Cunningham first explored it in 1827. H

Among the services that NetApp announced at its Insight conference that address data challenges is Spot Storage, which helps organizations build and run storageless applications in the cloud.

Los Angeles-based Replicated, a developer of software for monitoring and managing Kubernetes-based cloud applications, has scored $25M in its Series B funding round, the company announced on Tuesday. The funding was led by Two Sigma. Replicated was founded by Grant Miller and Marc Campbell. The company develops software which makes it easier for software vendors to package and distribute their pro

A group of IT leaders at a recent Computing virtual roundtable discusses cloud and monitoring strategies, with most seeing issues with too many tools and dashboards giving rise to information overload, often burying critical data CIOs at a recent Computing virtual roundtable admitted that they have too many tools and dashboards which give rise to information overload, with critical d