In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including partnership, AI, cloud, submarine cables and data centre news.
Here are our highlights:
MONDAY:
Telefónica Germany to Transform IT Architecture to Accelerate Time-to-Market by Over 50 percent
Telefonica Deutschland / O2 (Telefonica Germany) announced that it targets to accelerate product launch times (time-to-market) by 50%.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2NCjIEJ
Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate European cloud market
The European cloud market has grown more than threefold since the start of 2017, reaching €5.9 billion ($6.9 billion) in the third quarter of 2020.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/39eNHef
TUESDAY:
Ireland's National Broadband Plan successfully connects first premises
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) today announced that the first premises have been successfully connected in Cork and Cavan, with connections in Limeric.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2YhnwNq
TIM Launches New Cloud and Edge Computing Unit Noovle
TIM has announced the formation of Noovle, a new company wholly owned by the TIM Group intended to become an Italian centre of excellence for cloud and edge computing.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3a2phUg
wednesday:
Telefónica, IBM and Red Hat team up to plant seeds for Cloud Garden 2.0
Telefonica and IBM today announced Cloud Garden 2.0, the next phase of Telefonica’s cloud services platform designed to accelerate application modernization.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2YkKZNK
Edge demand driving micro DC market to $6.5bn by 2025
The value of the micro data centre market is on track to reach $6.5 billion by 2025, driven by new edge deployments and computing, according to Markets and Markets.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3iPYHBO
Thursday:
Digital Experience AI Platform HeadSpin Launches New Self-serve Performance Monitoring Platform
Netia to power cloud and data centre services with green energy
Polish telecommunications operator Netia will be switching its data centre and cloud services power supply to green energy by next week.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/36jSppb
Friday:
Batelco partners with wancloud to deliver multi-cloud migration solutions in bahrain
Batelco and Wanclouds have signed a partnership to deliver Multi-Cloud Migration solutions in Bahrain for the first time.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3t8bQe3
World’s first EMEA–Australia subsea cable will be complete this year
The Oman Australia Cable (OAC) has entered contract in force (CIF) status, expecting to be fully connected by the end of 2021.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/39taMKg
