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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IBM has confirmed its plans to acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a premier DevOps consultancy, and enterprise Kubernetes certified service, provider. BoxBoat will extend IBM’s container strategy and implementation services portfolio to further advance IBM’s hybrid cloud...
How to increase supply chain visibility with next-generation technology
The efficiency of a company’s supply chain is one of the most critical aspects in determining its ability to generate revenue, manage costs, and continuously meet customer expectations. According to one study, 79% of firms with high-performing...
Blockchain-based Polys introduces new voting methods and usability improvements
Polys, a blockchain-based voting platform from the Kaspersky Innovation Hub, has been enhanced with new voting methods to support common customer requests. The platform has also been updated with new features for organizers that make election...
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), which unveiled the UK’s most advanced superconducting quantum computer in 2018, has launched the UK’s first Quantum Computing-as-a-Service (QCaaS) platform. In a boost for the UK’s ambitions to be a global...
Ridge is bringing full public cloud capabilities to local data cent
For years, data centres and managed service providers have provided customers with the most up-to-date capabilities and services. But the shift from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings has...
Lumen joins Microsoft Azure ecosystem in strategic edge partnership
Lumen Technologies has struck its latest edge computing deal through a strategic partnership with Microsoft that will bring Microsoft Azure cloud capabilities onto the Lumen platform. The collaboration will see mutual customers benefitting from being...
The most innovative companies of 2021 according to BCG: Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft all make it
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla are considered the five most innovative companies, according to BCG’s analysis of the 50 most innovative companies of 2021 Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Mitsubishi, and Moderna join the top 50 most innovative companies for...
Ferrari eyes road and track innovation with AWS as its official cloud provider
Amazon Web Services, (AWS), has entered into an agreement with Ferrari to become its official cloud, machine learning, and artificial intelligence provider. Together, the companies will accelerate the pace of innovation across the entire Ferrari...
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...