(Image Credit: iStockPhoto/robynmac) UK consumers would be willing to pay nearly £1.5 billion extra a year to telecom providers for noticeably better services—but they are intolerant of security failures. In a KPMG survey of 2,000 adults in the UK, respondents indicated they would spend an additional £900 million annually for improved customer service and fewer … Read more

Ecosystems, APIs, open-source software, agile development, COTS servers and programmable networks are among the cloud attributes service providers plan to leverage using technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). Providers are moving from closed, appliance-centric architectures toward open servers and software-defined components. That shift requires a change in mindset, operational practices, … Read more

Cristie is proud to announce that we are now Rubrik Black Belt certified. This recognition confirms our deep technical expertise and our long-term commitment to delivering market-leading cyber recovery and restore solutions when it matters most. Achieving Black Belt status is not about backup alone. It’s about ensuring recovery. To mark this milestone, we are … Read more

Barracuda Networks has launched the next generation of threat detection: multimodal AI. This technology can identify advanced cyberthreats more quickly and accurately by combining multiple types of data—such as text, documents, images, QR codes and URLs—delivering a more comprehensive analysis of potential attacks. Unlike traditional solutions, multimodal AI can analyze several information sources simultaneously and … Read more

UK households with home broadband connections download an average of 17 gigabytes of data per month. That amount is roughly equivalent to streaming 11 full-length films or about 12 hours of pre-recorded television. Regulator Ofcom published these findings in its detailed “Infrastructure Report,” which assesses the performance of the country’s telecommunications networks. The study examined … Read more

A few weeks ago at MWC19 in Barcelona, telecom software provider Optiva announced that its BSS-focused Optiva Revenue Management Suite is now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This move could influence how telecommunications operators approach use of the public cloud for core systems. The term “telco cloud” has long been used in different ways … Read more

Søren Gjevert Petersen has been appointed Head of Security Services at GlobalConnect, a newly created position responsible for the company’s security solutions for corporate customers. Søren previously served as Head of Security for the company’s operations in Denmark and Germany and most recently held the position of Head of Security at IT firm Aeven. In … Read more

Less than a week after Huawei CEO Richard Yu voiced his frustration with the US market on the CES stage, reports indicate that lawmakers are pressuring AT&T to sever ties with the Chinese equipment maker. Relations between the two companies reportedly cooled after AT&T pulled out of a planned deal to distribute Huawei smartphones. Huawei … Read more

Research team Unit 42 at cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has exposed an Iranian cyberespionage campaign that employed a fake website. The site was initially copied from the real German modeling agency Mega Model Agency. The fraudulent site concealed JavaScript code that collected visitors’ browser data, including language settings, screen resolution, IP addresses and the … Read more

Global demand for energy is not going away, but it will transform considerably over the coming decades as governments adopt cleaner policies and consumers change how they use and generate electricity. To enable this transition, national electricity networks must be rethought. Achieving the integrated, flexible systems that make smart grids effective will require not only … Read more