BARCELONA, Spain – February 24, 2019 – Working Group Two (WG2) today announced an industry-leading platform to offer cloud-managed mobile network, running both control and user plane on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Focusing on the demands and opportunities of the 5G era – the WG2 platform allows mobile operators and enterprises to create and monetize […]
Cisco at MWC Barcelona: Showcasing Innovation Across Its Portfolio to Support Billions of Networked Connections
BARCELONA – WORLD CONGRESS – February 24, 2019 – In Barcelona, Cisco is showcasing how it is helping its service provider and enterprise customers adopt and drive revenue from 5G-powered services. The 5G movement is in steep ascent. Cisco has had over 100 active engagements with global customers on 5G. 40 service providers are actively trialing and […]
Cisco Breaks the Record Books: Powering Rakuten’s First-of- its-Kind Cloud Native Mobile Network
BARCELONA, – Mobile World Congress – February 24, 2019 – Cisco today announced details of its innovation blueprint with Rakuten Mobile Network, Inc. to build the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network, ready for 5G. Rakuten Mobile Network (RMN), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc., a global leader in internet services and soon to be operator of […]
Check Point reveals cloud and mobile security threats are growing
Criminals are increasingly targeting the cloud and mobile environments of businesses because they’re the least protected infrastructure, Check Point has revealed. The insights are backed up by evidence in the form of the cyber security company’s 2019 Security Report, with almost a fifth of businesses having experienced a security incident over the last 12 months, including […]
Google introduces hybrid cloud platform for flexible environments
Google has launched itself into the hybrid cloud arena, launching Google Cloud Service Platform to help businesses take advantage of a mixed on-premise and cloud services at once. CSP is built upon Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and integrates GKE On-Prem, which allows all of Google’s services to be pushed through to datacentres if a business […]
Popular password managers found to have serious flaws
Security researchers have revealed that some of the most popular password managers around are also the most vulnerable, allowing hackers to break in and steal information as easily as they would be able to if the information was stored in a text file. Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) tested a range of password managers – those […]
Google acquires Alooma to bolster cloud migration efforts
Google has announced plans to buy cloud migration company Alooma in a bid to boost its cloud migration capacities. In a blog post, Amit Ganesh, vice president of engineering at Google, said that the addition of Alooma, subject to closing conditions, “is a natural fit that allows us to offer customers a streamlined, automated migration […]
Cloud resources are increasingly targeted by cyber criminals
Hackers are increasingly aiming cyber attacks at cloud infrastructure, using it as an entry point to drive other attacks and relying on employees and businesses to misconfigure their infrastructure, leaving it open to attack. That’s according to cyber security firm Symantec’s latest Internet Threat Security Report, which noted misconfigured servers and cloud infrastructure are providing tempting targets for […]
AWS launches five new bare metal instances to give customers greater cloud control
AWS has unveiled five new EC2 bare metal instances to run high-intensity workloads, such as performance analysis, specialised applications and legacy workloads not supported in virtual environments. The new instances – m5.metal, m5d.metal, r5.metal, r5d.metal, and z1d.metal – have all been designed to run virtualisation secured containers such as Clear Linux Containers. Each offers its […]
Slack adds new tools designed for developers of all abilities
Slack is launching two new tools for developers to build apps within the business communication service without the need for in-depth coding knowledge. The first is called ‘Block Kit’, which is a user interface (UI) framework to help developers do more with the information inside Slack. Its aim is to provide more flexibility and control over […]