Software company Theta Lake, which specializes in unified communications (UC) compliance and security, recently conducted its annual benchmark survey late last year to understand how communications platforms are being used and which issues organizations are struggling with the most.
MWC, the former Mobile World Congress, doesn’t get going until next week, but there has already been some interesting news in the red-hot topic of private cellular.
Late Thursday night, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced it’s acquiring the private cellular network provider Athonet for an undisclosed amount. The Vicenza, Italy-based company was founded in 2005 and offers a Citizens Broadband Radio Service-based mobile packet core, SIM cards and radios to set up and deploy a private cellular network quickly and easily.
As enterprises continue to struggle with how to protect their data in the face of growing cyberthreats, data protection budgets are increasing around the world.
That’s according to Veeam Software Inc.’s 2023 Data Protection Trends Report released this week. The provider of backup, recovery and data management solutions found that 85% of organizations worldwide expect to increase their data protection budgets by 6.5% in 2023, significantly larger than predictions from Gartner (5.1%) and IDC (5.2%), and larger than overall spending increases in other areas of information technology.
Recently, backup and recovery provider, Veeam, announced version 12 (v12) of its Backup & Replication suite, along with a new platform approach that includes enhanced cyber resilience and support for hybrid cloud environments. Veeam also announced a new ransomware warranty, putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to keeping businesses running, even in the face of ransomware attacks.
Ahead of the MWC 2023 conference next week in Barcelona, Amazon Web Services today announced two new offerings to help telecommunications companies modernize their networks.
Years ago, the value chain for business services was clear. Telcos provided network services, software vendors offered applications, compute companies took care of servers and so on. The rise of cloud has blurred the lines and there is perhaps no industry that has been more disrupted than telecom. Over-the-top services, the cloud companies and other trends has relegated the telcos to being the “pipes” with little ability to differentiate one’s self.