Sunday, 21 May 2017 08:37
$1 billion Middle East e-commerce site Noon ‘on track to launch this year’
“I am pleased to confirm that noon is on track to launch this year,” said Dubai-based property tycoon, Mohamed Alabbar, speaking about Noon.com, a project of which he is a founding partner. Noon is a $1 billion e-commerce site developed as a joint venture with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and other Gulf investors. The new site was expected to go online in January this year with 50 percent investment from the Saudi Kingdom’s Public Investment Fund and the rest…
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Sunday, 21 May 2017 06:26
PCCW Global to collaborate with Canonical and CPLANE NETWORKS to create new cloud services
PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, is collaborating with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading OS for container, cloud, scale-out and hyperscale computing, and CPLANE NETWORKS, the leader in multi-site OpenStack cloud orchestration, to create new cloud services for its customers. Implementation at PCCW Global’s two next generation data centers in Reston, VA, US and Hong Kong is currently underway, with plans to expand to other strategic cities around the world…
Thursday, 04 May 2017 07:13
IBM and Salesforce announce landmark global strategic partnership
IBM and Salesforce announced a global strategic partnership to deliver joint solutions designed to leverage artificial intelligence and enable companies to make smarter decisions, faster than ever before. With the partnership, IBM Watson, the leading AI platform for business, and Salesforce Einstein, AI that powers the world’s #1 CRM, will seamlessly connect to enable an entirely new level of intelligent customer engagement across sales, service, marketing, commerce and more. IBM is also strategically investing in its Global Business Services capabilities…
Thursday, 04 May 2017 07:13
IBM and Salesforce announce landmark global strategic partnership
IBM and Salesforce announced a global strategic partnership to deliver joint solutions designed to leverage artificial intelligence and enable companies to make smarter decisions, faster than ever before. With the partnership, IBM Watson, the leading AI platform for business, and Salesforce Einstein, AI that powers the world’s #1 CRM, will seamlessly connect to enable an entirely new level of intelligent customer engagement across sales, service, marketing, commerce and more. IBM is also strategically investing in its Global Business Services capabilities…
Wednesday, 05 April 2017 10:53
BlackBerry expands licensing strategy for the Enterprise of Things
Canadian mobile-native security software and services firm BlackBerry Limited recently shared new details on its broad licensing strategy which addresses the growing need for secure, connected devices and endpoints in today's Enterprise of Things. The first phase of BlackBerry's licensing strategy, announced in September 2016, was focused on providing the most secure and comprehensive Android software for smartphones around the world manufactured and marketed by TCL Communication, PT BB Merah Putih and Optiemus Infracom Ltd. The company is now pursuing…
Sunday, 02 April 2017 12:00
Bell and Microsoft expand cloud services for Canadian business customers
Canada's largest communications company Bell and Microsoft Canada announced the availability of an expanded suite of Microsoft Azure cloud services, including Compute, and Backup and Disaster Recovery, on Canada's largest broadband network for business. Bell and Microsoft previously announced a partnership in which Bell became the first Canadian communications provider to offer enterprise access to Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute through Bell Cloud Connect, a dedicated broadband solution for business customers. "Bell customers can directly access Microsoft's growing portfolio of Azure cloud…
Thursday, 30 March 2017 12:46
Google Cloud Platform offers users continuous security and compliance with Qualys
Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced that it has extended its single-pane view of security and compliance posture into Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Users can now scan their GCP workloads along with all other global elastic-cloud and on-premise assets from within the Qualys Cloud Platform. Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance (QVSA) can now be directly deployed from the Google Cloud Launcher to GCP. With a single click, GCP users can create QVSA instances…
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Sunday, 12 March 2017 10:57
Australia’s Telstra establishes partnership with SD-WAN provider VeloCloud
Australia’s largest telecom company Telstra announced a strategic partnership with US-based VeloCloud Networks, the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN (software defined wide area networks) company, which simplifies and automates enterprise branch networking. The partnership includes an investment by Telstra Ventures in VeloCloud as part of their latest funding round. According to Mark Sherman, Managing Director of Telstra Ventures, the investment was consistent with Telstra's overall network strategy, with Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) increasingly playing a role in offering…
Wednesday, 08 March 2017 12:36
ZTE launches next-generation Public Cloud RCS solution
ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, it launched its next-generation end-to-end (E2E) Public Cloud rich communication services (RCS) solution that helps customers reform service deployment, service interconnection and business models. The solution fully satisfies global operators' requirements for rapid access, capacity expansion and functionality of the RCS service. To be specific, the solution can help small and medium-sized operators and mobile virtual network…
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Sunday, 05 March 2017 07:55
Yahoo reveals its third data breach affecting some 32 million accounts
After revealing last year that over a billion of its users' accounts had been hacked in two separate occasions, Yahoo just revealed another hack, involving some 32 million accounts that have been accessed by intruders over the past two years. Reuters reported that the accounts were compromised using forged cookies. Yahoo is said to be in disbelief that the accounts were accessed by the "Same state-sponsored actor believed to be responsible for the 2014 hack." About 500 million accounts were…
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 11:19
Lenovo to deliver enterprise cloud solution for SAP customers in China
SAP and Lenovo announced a partnership under which Lenovo will deliver a new enterprise cloud solution created exclusively for customers holding licenses for the SAP HANA platform in China. The solution will be named “Lenovo Enterprise Cloud designed for SAP HANA” and is intended to open a simple and powerful migration path for China customers seeking to leverage their investments in SAP HANA offsite in a cloud environment. SAP and Lenovo passed the one-year mark of an expanded strategic alliance…
Sunday, 19 February 2017 05:51
Facebook rivals LinkedIn by enabling businesses to post job listings
Facebook is now letting businesses in the US and Canada post jobs and take applications from jobseekers, which poses a threat to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. Facebook users in the US and Canada will now be able to find job posts on business pages on Facebook and apply by looking in a new ‘jobs’ bookmark on the social media site. Companies will be able to pay to promote job listings, and those who click “apply now” will open an online form already…
