Adopting a standardised and cloud-native approach to its business for a “more sophisticated fault-discovery process, coupled with the ability to bring services to market faster and improve customer experience”, BT Group’s Digital Unit has revealed that it is working with Blue Planet on a network orchestration and simplification project …
Read More »DORA raises the stakes for cloud use in financial services
The European Union’s (EU’s) Digital Operational Resilience Act or DORA is a key milestone for the future of the cloud in financial services. It acknowledges the vital role cloud technology plays in the delivery of modern banking services. At the same time, DORA highlights the catastrophic risk a service …
Read More »Microsoft bans SME partners from selling its services via government’s Cloud Compute 2 framework
The decision came to light after the government’s procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) began notifying suppliers on Friday 17 November 2023 about whether or not they had succeeded in securing a spot on the four Lot framework, which is valued at £1.35bn. Documents passed to Computer Weekly confirm …
Read More »MediaTek unveils RedCap services | Computer Weekly
As devices supporting the next generation of mobile wireless technology come on stream and use cases based on them rapidly emerge, leading processor manufacturer MediaTek has announced it’s expanding its family of modems and chipsets to support the 5G RedCap standard and deliver 5G data rates and enhanced power …
Read More »The implications of biased AI models on the financial services industry
The meteoric increase of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across all sectors is impossible to ignore. Whatever your feelings about AI, the use of these models is with us to stay and used in the right way it creates opportunities for businesses to improve efficiencies, reduce costs whilst …
Read More »Unregulated DeFi services abused in latest pig butchering twist
A major pig butchering (shā zhū pán) scam operation has been observed using fake trading pools of cryptocurrency to entice their victims to part with their savings, and has likely netted over $1m during the course of the scam, according to new intelligence released by the Sophos X-Ops research …
Read More »Cisco expands customer experience services portfolio
Cisco has announced the general availability of its Lifecycle Services (LCS) to expand the offerings that help businesses, healthcare and governments get to their desired outcomes faster. Putting the introduction into context, Cisco said that to quantify and validate IT contributions to the business, IT organisations need to invest …
Read More »Verizon Business forges managed network services partnership with HCLTech
As it aims to push ahead with its managed network services business that accentuates IT service expertise and ongoing support of enterprise networking deployments, multinational information technology services and consulting company HCLTech has announced a strategic global partnership with Verizon Business to become its primary managed network services (MNS) …
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