Hampshire, UK. 16 May 2022 -A new study from Juniper Research has predicted that global savings in CO2 emissions from smart traffic management systems will be 205 MMT (Million Metric Tons) by 2027; a growth of 41%, up from just 145.7 MMT in 2022. This significant saving will be equal to almost twice the CO2 emissions arising from UK domestic transport in 2019. Reducing congestion through optimised traffic control will be the main influencing factor. (more…)
May 18, 2022
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Tokyo, Japan. 17 May, 2022 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that it will conduct a [¥90 billion (€0.66 billion)] worth investment in its Kofu Factory, located in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. While the factory was closed in October 2014, Renesas intends to reopen the fab in 2024 as a 300mm wafer fab capable of manufacturing power semiconductors.
May 17, 2022
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Singapore. 17 May 2022 – MATRIXX Software, a global specialist in 5G and real-time monetisation solutions, today announced it has deepened its partnership with StarHub, a homegrown Singapore digital service provider that delivers communications, entertainment and the most enriching experiences. MATRIXX will now provide its cloud native, converged charging system (CCS) as a key component of StarHub’s transformed digital IT infrastructure that supports its mobile postpaid and prepaid customers, for both existing 4G and 5G Standalone (5G SA) services. (more…)
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London, UK. 17 May 2022 – DevicePilot, the service management platform for smart energy and smart home companies, today announced the launch of DevicePilot Core. Core is DevicePilot’s major update since the company’s launch in 2016. It enables customers to manage their smart products at costs as low as 1p per device per month, reducing both the human and machine costs required for maintaining large estates of connected devices. (more…)
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Leuven, Belgium. 16 May 2022 – Septentrio, a Specialist in high-precision GNSS/INS* positioning and orientation solutions, takes a step today towards simplifying the integration process of its inertial GNSS receivers. RxLeverArm software tool has been released to aid GNSS/INS installation and improve accuracy, with automatic optimisation of lever-arm settings. (more…)
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Tampa and San Francisco, United States. 16 May, 2022 – Syniverse, communications technology provider to carriers and enterprises, and Twilio, the customer engagement platform that drives real time, personalised experiences for today’s brands, announced that the companies have closed on their previously announced strategic partnership. Twilio has invested [$750 million (€720.50 million)] for common equity in Syniverse, and the two companies have expanded their strategic and commercial partnership. Twilio is now a significant minority owner of Syniverse with Carlyle maintaining its majority stake.
Under the terms of the transaction, Twilio has invested [$750 million (€720.50 million)] in Syniverse, with Syniverse concurrently having raised [$1.025 billion (€0.98 billion)] in new term loan debt and [$340 million (€326.63 million)] in new preferred equity, the proceeds of which were primarily used to reduce leverage.
Syniverse’s chief executive officer Andrew Davies comments, “This transaction provides Syniverse with the enhanced liquidity and financial flexibility that will enable us to accelerate investment in innovation, product quality, and breadth to benefit our enterprise and carrier customers around the world. Our partnership with Twilio, combined with our enhanced balance sheet following this new infusion of capital, leaves us well positioned to more effectively monetise the 5G and CPaaS revolutions, deepen our engagement with our customers across key industry verticals and create long-term value and opportunity for all our stakeholders.”
Through this partnership, Syniverse will benefit from Twilio’s breadth of experience serving enterprise customers to capitalise on the next wave of growth in digital communications. Syniverse will also be even better positioned to serve its carrier customers and support continued innovation, customer service and lasting growth.
Simon Khalaf, Twilio’s senior vice president and GM of communications Platform, says “We are pleased to have closed this partnership and investment to accelerate the next wave of innovation in mobile communications and drive long-term growth.”
James Attwood, senior advisor at Carlyle and Chairman of Syniverse, says “Today marks a new day for Syniverse and for Carlyle’s investment in the business. We look forward to continuing to partner with Syniverse and Twilio to accelerate the next wave of innovation in intelligent connectivity and communications.”
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May 16, 2022
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Herndon, United States. 16 May, 2022 – ST Engineering iDirect, a global provider in satellite communications, will provide internet service provider and longtime customer, InterSAT Communication Services FZCO, with a significant technology upgrade, enabling it to deliver enhanced services to its customers across the African continent. The upgrade to its existing evolution platform will allow InterSAT to leverage new technologies and efficiencies to remain competitive in an increasingly challenging market. (more…)
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Armonk, United States. 11 May, 2022 – IBM announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), with plans to offer a broad array of its software catalog as software as a service (SaaS) on AWS.
Building on IBM software being available as-a-service (aas) on IBM cloud, this agreement between IBM and AWS will provide clients with quick and easy access to IBM software that spans automation, data and AI, security and sustainability capabilities, is built on Red Hat openshift service on AWS (ROSA), and runs cloud native on AWS. The two companies are also committing to a broad range of joint investments to make it easier for clients to consume IBM Software on AWS, including integrated go to market activities across sales and marketing, channel incentives, developer enablement and training, and solution development for key verticals and industries such as oil and gas, travel and transportation, and others.
Today, organisations are looking for industry leading services and solutions that allow them to be nimble, flexible, and continuously scalable. This need has been further compounded as demand grows to run software both on premises and across hybrid cloud environments so they can be scaled globally with high availability.
Moving forward, organisations will be able to run a broad array of the IBM Software catalog as cloud native services on AWS so they can get up and running quickly to deliver business value. This includes IBM API connect, IBM Db2, IBM observability by Instana APM, IBM maximo application suite, IBM security ReaQta, IBM security trusteer, IBM security verify, and IBM watson orchestrate, with others to follow later this year.
Clients will be able to procure the IBM SaaS products in AWS Marketplace, and then set up and integrate with AWS services, allowing them to get started with just a few clicks, without deploying, updating or managing any of the infrastructure. IBM SaaS products on AWS are designed to provide high availability and elastic scaling on demand to meet unpredictable throughput needs and will offer a native AWS experience with deep integration of AWS services out of the box and support for API, cloudformation and terraform templates to enable automation of end to end workflows.
For example, using IBM maximo application suite as-a-Service, a manufacturer will be able to take a flexible, demand based approach to AI-driven asset management to help them monitor and maintain equipment more efficiently, or predict potential mechanical failures to fix them before they create interruptions. By taking advantage of a scalable consumption model for these applications, they can free up capital for innovation, prototyping, tooling and production and easily expand their usage over time based on evolving market trends and production demands.
Additionally, with more than 10,000 AWS certifications and 13 AWS competencies, IBM consulting and IBM security services can help customers build and deploy modern, secure and more intelligent workflows with IBM Software on AWS.
The availability of these SaaS products complements IBM’s extensive portfolio of 30+ Software products that currently can be deployed manually in AWS Marketplace and the ability to bring your own license (BYOL) for users that already have their own license so they can deploy the software faster. Together, this gives organisations a comprehensive set of options to build and run software in the way that best meets the unique needs of their business.
“As hybrid cloud continues to become the reality for our clients, IBM is ready and willing to meet them with a flexible and cloud-native software portfolio wherever they are in the cloud or in data centers,” says Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president, IBM software. “By deepening our collaboration with AWS, we’re taking another major step in giving organisations the ability to choose the hybrid cloud model that works best for their own needs and workloads, freeing them up to instead focus on solving their most pressing business challenges.”
“Our collaboration with IBM allows joint customers to accelerate their modernisation to the cloud and consume IBM services in a cloud native manner on AWS,” says Matt Garman, senior vice president of sales and marketing at AWS. “Through our multiyear agreement, AWS will work with IBM to offer a broad array of IBM Software as SaaS on AWS. In addition, we’ll be working together on stronger joint marketing and co-selling programs for customers.”
“Companies like ours are looking for faster time-to-value and to get up and running quickly. Becoming an AWS cloud-first organisation has set us on the path of a digital innovator, using technology to better serve our clients,” says Guilherme Ximenes, chief technology officer at Banco Inter. “The availability of IBM SaaS offerings on AWS will allow businesses like ours to focus on delivering our clients value without worrying about IT infrastructure management, helping us innovate at a faster clip.”
This collaboration underscores the value of IBM, Red Hat, and AWS to provide flexibility and unlock greater business value for customers across industries. With today’s news, AWS now has over 100+ dedicated resources in IBM Consulting, IBM Software, and Red Hat focusing on business development, technical support and marketing.
The news further extends the existing support for IBM Software on premises and as SaaS in IBM cloud environments.
Clients who purchase IBM SaaS software in AWS marketplace will also be eligible to draw down against their AWS enterprise discount program commitments. For more information, please visit here and IBM.
Statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.
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Sophia Antipolis, France. 12 May 2022 – ETSI’s 5th generation fixed network group (ISG F5G) has released its specification for F5G network architecture ETSI GS F5G 004. This architecture will deliver a variety of services to residential and business customers over a single physical network with guaranteed SLAs (service level agreements). (more…)
May 13, 2022
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London, United Kingdom. 12th May 2022 – Nebulon Inc., smartInfrastructure, an infrastructure operations SaaS that transforms an on premises server estate into a cloud operating platform, announced 4 minute ransomware recovery on Lenovo ThinkSystem rack server edge deployments. (more…)
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