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Nokia said that the trial demonstrated an augmented reality use case for industrial applications Finnish vendor Nokia and Saudi carrier stc announced that they have successfully tested a 5G private wireless network based on cloud-native O-RAN technology. In a release, Nokia noted that the trial was...

HFCL said that the private 5G collaboration will target verticals including manufacturing, retail, warehouse, mining, education, defence and smart city Indian company HFCL, which focuses on digital networks for telcos, enterprises and governments, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to create converged private 5G solutions. In...

”We’re focused on helping our customers do more with less” – Microsoft CEO Microsoft reported results Tuesday for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2023 earnings, the period ending September 30, 2022. For the quarter, Microsoft reported revenue of $50.1 billion, moderately higher than the $49.61...

The VM-Series firewall software secures private Azure-based 4G and 5G MEC Protecting enterprise Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) installations against cyberattacks is the impetus behind Palo Alto Networks’ news on Thursday announcing the availability of its VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) software, via Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. Palo Alto promises...

Foreign exchange pressures and Russia cost Redmond, but cloud revenue increased 28% to $25 billion Microsoft Corp. announced earnings Tuesday for the quarter ending June 30, 2022, offering up its slowest revenue growth since 2020. The company with $51.9 billion in revenue, up 12% Year over Year...

Azure makes it easier to see and use OCI databases, at no extra charge Oracle and Microsoft announced this week the release of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure. The new service, the latest cloud collaboration between the two enterprise software giants, enables Azure customers to provision,...

The government of Ukraine has awarded peace prizes to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle for their emergency digitalization efforts.

Some 55% of survey respondents said they are seriously considering an O-RAN strategy Research by U.S. manufacturing services company Jabil has found a growing interest by companies to adopt an Open RAN (O-RAN) approach. A survey of 193 companies conducted for Jabil by SIS International Research...

The NC Collaboratory turned to SAS Analytics for IoT and Microsoft Azure for this project   The North Carolina Collaboratory and analytics specialist SAS are using IoT analytics and sensor data from vaccine storage freezers to strengthen cold chain integrity and improve dosage delivery, particularly to...

Microsoft Defender for Cloud has added Google Cloud to its Cloud Security Posture Management support, after adding AWS in 2021.

Enterprise Java app modernization as a managed service via Spring Boot  Microsoft has announced the availability of a preview version of Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise. Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is a managed service for Spring Boot, the Java open-source microservice framework. Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is...

Singtel announced plans to offer 5G MEC services to Singapore in the second half of 2022, powered by Microsoft Azure Edge Zones.

Microsoft calls 5G mobile edge computing "the next wave of innovation" for a new class of low-latency apps and services.

Red Hat's Ansible, its hybrid cloud and edge computing automation platform, is now available as a preview on Microsoft Azure.

A severe exploit to the popular Java logging library Log4J 2 put hyperscalers into patch overdrive this weekend.

Rigetti's quantum computers are coming to Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud ecosystem and marketplace in the first part of 2022.

AT&T and Microsoft have soft-launched an Azure Edge Zone in Atlanta, Georgia. The companies will next expand to Dallas and other U.S. metros.

Azure for Operators' optimized network traffic orchestration and worldwide WAN make it ready for 5G low-latency use cases, says the CTO.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are hyperscaler apex predators, and offer both an existential threat and business opportunity for carriers.

Print services company Lexmark has launched a new IoT portfolio for manufacturing companies to monitor usage of their connected devices in-market, and provide their customers with a platform of analytics-based maintenance and service solutions. The company put the total market opportunity, for industrial IoT...

Earlier this year, Verizon launched On Site 5G, which allowed enterprise and public sector customers to utilize the carrier’s mmWave network Almost a year after announcing an edge computing solution with Microsoft, Verizon has announced the availability of an on-premises, private edge compute solution called...

Nokia reported growth in enterprise market and now tallies 290 private wireless customers Before 5G was even commercially available and certainly before "private networks" and "Industry 4.0" were broadly in the lexicon, Nokia was clear it would sell what would become private 5G in partnership...

Focus on cloud-based automotive cyber security monitoring Israeli company, Argus Cyber Security, a specialist in automotive cyber security, has collaborated with Microsoft Azure IoT and joined the Microsoft partner network to provide vehicle manufacturers the ability to monitor, detect, and mitigate attacks in the cloud. Argus...

Azure for Operators built on three principles: partnerships, ecosystem development and infrastructure monetization Microsoft, given its established position in distributed cloud computing, enterprise relationships, and massive developer community, sees the confluences of 5G, edge computing and an operator focus on new services for specific vertical...