For IT News Week 3 of Jan 2019 - Disk 2, the TIBCO and XL Axiata collaboration on Data Science project is worth the attention.
For this week / last week, here are / were the biggest news:
Jan 23, 2019 - Silver Peak Expands Cloud Partner Ecosystem
Silver Peak®, today announced that the business-driven Unity EdgeConnect™ SD-WAN platform is now fully certified for deployment in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace. Geographically distributed enterprises can now confidently execute multi-cloud strategies with the same network and application availability and resiliency they’ve come to expect from their EdgeConnect branch site deployments. Silver Peak now boasts the broadest public cloud service partner ecosystem in the industry adding Google Cloud to existing partners Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
This is an initiative in terms of fulfilling the Benefits of a Multi-Cloud Strategy targeting the enterprise market segment.
According to LogicMonitor’s Cloud Vision 2020 study, more than 80 percent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020 with more than 40 percent running on public cloud platforms. With today’s announcement, enterprise customers now benefit from the ability to host EdgeConnect across any combination of the four leading public cloud services platforms with the same ease of deployment, feature and license parity and the performance and efficiency they’re come to expect from Silver Peak.
Jan 22, 2019 - JBIX Signs Up Over 20
Johor Bahru Internet Exchange (JBIX), the second Internet Exchange in Malaysia, today shares that they now peer with more than 20 different ISPs and corporations from Malaysia and across the region.
Weng Yew Wong the Managing Director of Extreme Broadband and the Chief Peering Officer of JBIX, commented that the launch of JBIX is timely for the Malaysian Internet landscape due to growing Internet broadband demand, as well as bringing benefits of internet peering to businesses and organisations without an ISP license. Besides, the more members join the merrier it is, the so-called 'Network Effect'
Jan 22, 2019 - OPPO 2019 Future Technology Communication Conference Updates
Introducing the 10x lossless zoom technology.
Jan 18, 2019 - IBM & Vodafone Business Join Forces to Drive Innovation in Rapidly Changing World
IBM and Vodafone have announced today they are entering into a new strategic commercial agreement. As part of the agreement, IBM will provide managed services to Vodafone Business’ cloud and hosting unit, in an eight-year engagement valued at approximately US$550 million (€480 million). Customers will benefit from Vodafone’s global connectivity as well as IBM’s optimisation, automation and cognitive capabilities, both important in helping businesses deliver innovation in the cloud faster.
The new venture will co-develop new digital solutions, combining the strengths of Vodafone’s leadership in IoT, 5G and edge computing with IBM’s multicloud, industry expertise and professional services capabilities. Together, IBM and Vodafone Business will help companies accelerate their digital transformation by removing the complexity and barriers from their technology choices and ensuring that data and applications flow freely and securely across their organizations.
IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty said, together, IBM and Vodafone will use the power of the hybrid cloud to securely integrate critical business applications, driving business innovation – from agriculture to next-generation retail.
Jan 18, 2019 - HONIARA - Newtec Dialog® and SATSOL Heighten Efficiency and User Experience for Solomon Islands Satellite Customers
Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, has provided a Newtec Dialog® hub system to SATSOL, a teleport and Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the Solomon Islands.
The Newtec Dialog platform will deliver IP connectivity for the Solomon Islands government, with a single hop service from remote islands to the capital, Honiara. SATSOL is currently rolling out the remote sites, initially in ten provincial hub locations. The education system will also benefit as the improved provincial network will be extended to secondary schools.
As one of Solomon Islands’ three Internet Service Providers (ISPs), SATSOL currently provides approximately 20% of the country’s Internet bandwidth. The company owns and operates the highest teleport in Guadalcanal, overlooking the capital city of Honiara, and has built the largest wireless ISP (WISP) network in the country.
Jan 17, 2019 - 89% of Finance Teams Yet to Embrace A.I
Finance teams lack the digital skillset to embrace the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, causing a negative impact on revenue growth, according to a new study from the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL).
The study of more than 700 global finance leaders found that despite a clear correlation between the deployments of AI and revenue growth, 89 percent of organisations have not deployed AI in the finance function and only 10 percent of finance teams believe they have the skills to support the organisation’s digital ambitions.
The report, titled “Agile Finance Unleashed: The Key Traits of Digital Finance Leaders” highlights that 46 percent of tech-savvy finance leaders report positive revenue growth, compared with only 29 percent of tech-challenged leaders. Furthermore, organisations that have seen revenue growth are more likely to be deploying artificial intelligence compared to those where revenues are flat or declining. However, only 11 percent of finance leaders surveyed have implemented artificial intelligence in the finance function, and 90 percent say their finance team does not have skills to support enterprise digital transformation.
The report identifies three common traits of tech-savvy finance teams
For this week / last week, here are / were the biggest news:
- Jan 23, 2019 - Silver Peak Expands Cloud Partner Ecosystem
- Jan 22, 2019 - JBIX Signs Up Over 20
- Jan 22, 2019 - OPPO 2019 Future Technology Communication Conference Updates
- Jan 18, 2019 - IBM & Vodafone Business Join Forces to Drive Innovation in Rapidly Changing World
- Jan 18, 2019 - HONIARA - Newtec Dialog® and SATSOL Heighten Efficiency and User Experience for Solomon Islands Satellite Customers
- Jan 17, 2019 - Study Shows 89% of Finance Teams Yet to Embrace A.I
Jan 23, 2019 - Silver Peak Expands Cloud Partner Ecosystem
Silver Peak®, today announced that the business-driven Unity EdgeConnect™ SD-WAN platform is now fully certified for deployment in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace. Geographically distributed enterprises can now confidently execute multi-cloud strategies with the same network and application availability and resiliency they’ve come to expect from their EdgeConnect branch site deployments. Silver Peak now boasts the broadest public cloud service partner ecosystem in the industry adding Google Cloud to existing partners Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
This is an initiative in terms of fulfilling the Benefits of a Multi-Cloud Strategy targeting the enterprise market segment.
According to LogicMonitor’s Cloud Vision 2020 study, more than 80 percent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020 with more than 40 percent running on public cloud platforms. With today’s announcement, enterprise customers now benefit from the ability to host EdgeConnect across any combination of the four leading public cloud services platforms with the same ease of deployment, feature and license parity and the performance and efficiency they’re come to expect from Silver Peak.
Jan 22, 2019 - JBIX Signs Up Over 20
Johor Bahru Internet Exchange (JBIX), the second Internet Exchange in Malaysia, today shares that they now peer with more than 20 different ISPs and corporations from Malaysia and across the region.
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| Weng Yew Wong, MD of Extreme Broadband and Chief Peering Officer of JBIX |
Weng Yew Wong the Managing Director of Extreme Broadband and the Chief Peering Officer of JBIX, commented that the launch of JBIX is timely for the Malaysian Internet landscape due to growing Internet broadband demand, as well as bringing benefits of internet peering to businesses and organisations without an ISP license. Besides, the more members join the merrier it is, the so-called 'Network Effect'
Jan 22, 2019 - OPPO 2019 Future Technology Communication Conference Updates
Introducing the 10x lossless zoom technology.
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Jan 18, 2019 - IBM & Vodafone Business Join Forces to Drive Innovation in Rapidly Changing World
IBM and Vodafone have announced today they are entering into a new strategic commercial agreement. As part of the agreement, IBM will provide managed services to Vodafone Business’ cloud and hosting unit, in an eight-year engagement valued at approximately US$550 million (€480 million). Customers will benefit from Vodafone’s global connectivity as well as IBM’s optimisation, automation and cognitive capabilities, both important in helping businesses deliver innovation in the cloud faster.
The new venture will co-develop new digital solutions, combining the strengths of Vodafone’s leadership in IoT, 5G and edge computing with IBM’s multicloud, industry expertise and professional services capabilities. Together, IBM and Vodafone Business will help companies accelerate their digital transformation by removing the complexity and barriers from their technology choices and ensuring that data and applications flow freely and securely across their organizations.
IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty said, together, IBM and Vodafone will use the power of the hybrid cloud to securely integrate critical business applications, driving business innovation – from agriculture to next-generation retail.
Jan 18, 2019 - HONIARA - Newtec Dialog® and SATSOL Heighten Efficiency and User Experience for Solomon Islands Satellite Customers
Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, has provided a Newtec Dialog® hub system to SATSOL, a teleport and Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the Solomon Islands.
The Newtec Dialog platform will deliver IP connectivity for the Solomon Islands government, with a single hop service from remote islands to the capital, Honiara. SATSOL is currently rolling out the remote sites, initially in ten provincial hub locations. The education system will also benefit as the improved provincial network will be extended to secondary schools.
As one of Solomon Islands’ three Internet Service Providers (ISPs), SATSOL currently provides approximately 20% of the country’s Internet bandwidth. The company owns and operates the highest teleport in Guadalcanal, overlooking the capital city of Honiara, and has built the largest wireless ISP (WISP) network in the country.
Jan 17, 2019 - 89% of Finance Teams Yet to Embrace A.I
Finance teams lack the digital skillset to embrace the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, causing a negative impact on revenue growth, according to a new study from the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL).
The study of more than 700 global finance leaders found that despite a clear correlation between the deployments of AI and revenue growth, 89 percent of organisations have not deployed AI in the finance function and only 10 percent of finance teams believe they have the skills to support the organisation’s digital ambitions.
The report, titled “Agile Finance Unleashed: The Key Traits of Digital Finance Leaders” highlights that 46 percent of tech-savvy finance leaders report positive revenue growth, compared with only 29 percent of tech-challenged leaders. Furthermore, organisations that have seen revenue growth are more likely to be deploying artificial intelligence compared to those where revenues are flat or declining. However, only 11 percent of finance leaders surveyed have implemented artificial intelligence in the finance function, and 90 percent say their finance team does not have skills to support enterprise digital transformation.
The report identifies three common traits of tech-savvy finance teams
- Modern Business Processes
- Data Insights
- Business Influence
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