Edge & Distributed Cloud Trends

How configuration management can become an asset for enterprises

Cloud Tech — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:18:39 +0000

Configuration has become an invisible yet dramatic risk for today’s enterprises rolling-out large technology platforms. From airline system outages to data exposure incidents, small misconfigurations can now trigger multi-million-dollar losses. As enterprises integrate AI models, microservices, API connections, and increasingly, autonomous agents into their operational fabric, the risks multiply. There is a need for configuration […]

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Huawei’s cloud AI infrastructure breakthrough connects 15,000 chips as one system

Dashveenjit Kaur — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000

The challenge of building efficient cloud AI infrastructure has always been about scale – not just adding more servers, but making those servers work together seamlessly. At Huawei Connect 2025, the Chinese technology giant unveiled an approach that changes how cloud providers and enterprises can pool computing resources. Instead of managing thousands of independent servers […]

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StarHub trials Southeast Asia’s first 5G cloud RAN with Nokia and Dell

Muhammad Zulhusni — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:44:47 +0000

StarHub has completed a trial of Southeast Asia’s first 5G cloud radio access network (cloud RAN), in collaboration with Nokia and Dell. The trial is part of the telco’s Cloud Infinity initiative, which is designed to support enterprises’ digital transformation efforts. Cloud RAN is important to the evolution of mobile network infrastructure as it’s capable […]

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Amazon steps into European 5G market through strategic cloud deal with O2 Telefónica

Muhammad Zulhusni — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:59:42 +0000

O2 Telefónica in Germany, in partnership with Nokia, has made a groundbreaking move by deploying 5G standalone core software on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This marks a significant milestone as it is the first instance of an existing mobile operator shifting its core network to a public cloud. Traditionally, telecom networks have migrated IT and other […]

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VAST Data extends global namespace capabilities to Google Cloud

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:20:00 +0000

VAST Data, a AI data platform company, hads made the VAST Data Platform available with Google Cloud. By extending the VAST Data Platform’s global namespace with Google Cloud, organisations have the flexibility to deploy multi-node VAST Clusters either independently with Google Cloud or in conjunction with on-premises VAST clusters, offering the full suite of platform features to […]

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Rakuten Symphony launches Telco Cloud training through TIP Academy

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:08:00 +0000

Rakuten Symphony has launched a Telco Cloud curriculum on the Telecom Infra Project’s industry-neutral training platform, the TIP Academy. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Academy, launched by TIP in collaboration with Accenture in June 2022, is an industry neutral training platform for the Telecom industry. With a prime focus on educating and upskilling the Telecom […]

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Optiva accelerates competitive edge with generative AI-enabled real-time BSS

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:53:00 +0000

Optiva, which provides telecoms firms with cloud-native billing, charging and revenue management software on private and public clouds, has revealed that its business support systems (BSS) platform now allows users to leverage generative AI (GenAI) technology to quickly highlight new, targeted revenue opportunities and dramatically reduce customer churn. Full integration with Google Cloud’s BigQuery and […]

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Jaap van Vliet, Ambit Software: Navigating the intricacies of digital transformation

Ryan Daws — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:39:12 +0000

In an interview at this year’s Digital Transformation Week Europe, Ambit Software Managing Director Jaap van Vliet delved into the intricacies of digital transformation and how the company utilises innovative strategies to assist clients globally. “We try to help to accelerate our customers to improve their business,” says van Vliet. “We do that from multi-angles: […]

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Full ‘stream’ ahead for Scottish Water smart monitoring roll-out

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 07:26:12 +0000

An intelligent monitoring system has been successfully introduced by Scottish Water across rural locations in the Highlands and Islands, using Internet of Things (IoT) technology to gather essential data that helps keep the water network in Scotland safe. Using a device developed by CENSIS for M2M Cloud – Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and […]

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Cloud Repatriation is picking up speed

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:16:30 +0000

Massive data growth, rising costs for cloud services, and the need for more flexibility have given hosting data and workloads on-premises new momentum, as Eric Bassier, senior director of products at Quantum, explains. The benefits of cloud computing, in general, are undisputed. Cloud usage has grown rapidly over the past decade and particularly in the […]

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BT brings 5G and the cloud to businesses on the move with AWS Wavelength

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:06:50 +0000

BT has confirmed it is making a multi-million-pound investment to bring 5G and 4G mobile edge computing services to its UK business customers in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The work combines AWS’s cloud expertise with BT’s market-leading 5G and 4G infrastructure. EE’s national mobile network with AWS Wavelength will bring the power of […]

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Lenovo ushers in new era of edge automation at scale

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:42:52 +0000

Lenovo has unveiled the next generation of ThinkEdge remote automation and orchestration with the introduction of new software solutions to accelerate the deployment of edge solutions. Lenovo’s new Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) 2.6 software delivers secure automated setup, enabling customers to complete global edge deployments for any number of locations in a matter of […]

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