Zoom Video Communications has reached an agreement to acquire Five9, a provider of a cloud contact centre, in an all-stock transaction valued at $14.7 billion (£10.7bn). Combining Five9’s Contact Centre as a Service (“CCaaS”) solution...
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Cloud computing adoption by enterprises has only accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Forrester Consulting 2021 Cloud Connectivity Buyer’s Guide, commissioned by Megaport, suggests that the pandemic “reinforced the substantial value and necessity of cloud...
Virgin Media O2 is giving small businesses a broadband speed boost to help them recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a rough year for most businesses, Virgin Media and O2 received some rare good news in...
VXPASS opens a blockchain-based vaccination verification program
VXPASS, a blockchain-based platform built to manage, store and verify records for global COVID-19 vaccination programs, has opened its Digital Covid Card replacement to licensed medical practitioners and their patients. By opening the service to...
Ahead of its E3 2021 showcase with recent acquisition Bethesda, the Xbox team has set out its vision to bring “gaming to everyone”. Enabling everyone to enjoy gaming has become an increased focus for Xbox in recent years – whether...
Apple is limiting apps for the new M1 iPad Pro to 5GB RAM each, despite some configurations now featuring 16GB. The latest iPad is another step towards becoming a true laptop replacement, at least in terms of pure...
Intel explores edge rationale for retail, healthcare, and industrial spaces
Another day, another report exploring the benefits of the edge and how organisations are behind the curve in making it happen. The report from Intel, ‘The Edge Outlook’, looks at four industries and how edge...
Professional services network Deloitte and software firm Teradata have teamed up to help mutual customers migrate their on-premise data management and analytics environments to the Teradata Vantage multi-cloud data platform. Deloitte, a preferred systems integrator for Vantage,...
The Israeli Government has penned a $1 billion+ deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google for public sector and military cloud services. The tech giants are thought to have beaten Microsoft, Oracle and IBM...
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small...