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  • November 08, 2024 08 Nov'24

    IOWN furthers pace of next-gen optical net development

    Next-gen networking project reveals proof of concepts encompassing transforming infrastructure through innovations centred on an APN, spatial experiences with communication technologies, real-time, long-distance connectivity in manufacturing and ...

  • November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

    UK fibre providers struggle to meet rising demands

    Research from field service management software provider warns of growing pressures as digital transformation becomes essential for altnets to stay competitive in cut-throat market

  • November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

    Connexin completes ‘significant’ first stage of Project Gigabit contract

    Digital service and smart technology provider fulfils initial part of £58m contract in national £5bn broadband scheme providing gigabit connectivity to over 34,000 rural homes in Nottinghamshire and West Lincolnshire

  • November 05, 2024 05 Nov'24

    Nakivo aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox

    Version 11 of Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backups, support for Proxmox virtualisation backups – following Veeam – and NAS file data backups to cloud targets

  • November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

    How AI is impacting global connectivity

    Jürgen Hatheier, international CTO of Ciena, discusses the role of connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence and how the company is helping service providers navigate this transformative period

  • October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

    Meta no longer prolonging the life of datacentre servers

    During the earnings call for the company’s latest quarterly results, CFO Susan Li said Meta would be investing in GPU servers

  • October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

    Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access

    Lightweight S3 API trades storage features for microsecond access. Scality pairs it with all-NVMe flash in Ring XP, aimed at AI use cases for small object data in PB-scale datasets

  • October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

    NXP boosts edge AI IoT

    Semiconductor firm expands artificial intelligence and machine learning portfolio to make it easier and faster to deploy GenAI, time series and vision-based LLMs directly on edge devices for use across the internet of things

  • October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

    Tokyo University of Science sets pace in neural networks on edge IoT

    Researchers in educational establishment propose a novel magnetic random access memory-based architecture that uses spintronics to realise smaller, more efficient AI-capable circuits for internet of things

  • October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

    Western Digital boosts HDD capacity with 32TB shingled drives

    An 11th platter gives extra capacity, while shingled (overlapped) writes – best suited to sequential recording use cases – allow for greater density and big gains in thoughput