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IT Connection Blogs
18h ago
Summary Bullets: • GenAI providers leverage strengths across the cloud stack to differentiate • Progress in AI agents’ efforts are made via acquisitions, partnerships, and innovations Technology providers across the GenAI ecosystem continue to build out AI agent and AI assistant strategies and portfolios to help demonstrate the power of GenAI technology through practical use ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
18h ago
Summary Bullets: • The US administration is making clear its aim to improve government efficacy and slash expenses across the board. • In IT, the General Services Administration (GSA) singled out its 10 largest consulting partners, demanding they justify their contracting value to reduce the current $65 billion public sector spend. Change is inevitable with ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
18h ago
Summary Bullets: • The fire near the UK’s Heathrow Airport, which closed a key electricity substation, disrupted travel at the world’s second-largest air travel hub. • The many data centers located nearby (about 10% of UK capacity) showed no disruption as they switched to back-up power supplies. On Friday March 21, 2025, a fire at ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
3d ago
Summary Bullets: • NVIDIA believes enterprises are evolving from digital transformation driven by large language models (LLMs), and towards physical AI, or spatial AI, and multimodal AI. • The industry at large is turning to “reasoning” models, capable of offering more analysis and autonomy than LLMs, especially combined with AI agents. GTC is NVIDIA’s most ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
3d ago
Summary Bullets: Zayo Group, backed by two capital investment firms, DigitalBridge and EQT, has struck a deal with Crown Castle to acquire the company’s fiber solutions business for $4.25 billion. The acquisition will bolster Zayo’s capabilities in wavelength services, helping the company execute its strategic focus on investing in the critical fiber infrastructure to support ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
5d ago
Summary Bullets: • Alibaba Cloud is expanding its presence in Malaysia with a new data center and wider ecosystem. • It is closing the competitive gap in cloud and AI, but still lacks local references. Local Expansion At the recent Alibaba Cloud AI Tech Day 2025 in Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud shared its latest initiatives in ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
2w ago
Summary Bullets: Salesforce’s annual developer conference, TDX25, took place in San Francisco during the first week of March. As expected, AI played heavily in all conversations, with AI agents and Salesforce’s Agentforce platform taking a starring role. Similar to its approach with GenAI, Salesforce has been a thought leader when it comes to AI agents ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
2w ago
Summary Bullets: Amazon Web Services (AWS) just became the first cloud computing provider to offer DeepSeek-R1 as a fully managed, serverless large language model (LLM) in general availability on Amazon Bedrock, a service that provides access to third-party foundation models. The publicly available DeepSeek-R1 series has taken the generative AI (GenAI) market by storm, with ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
2w ago
Summary Bullets: Orange Wholesale launches its 5G CNaaS solution as the carrier looks to redefine next-generation mobile connectivity. The new 5G core solution is fully hosted and managed, allowing mobile operators the ability to deploy their own 5G standalone infrastructure within minutes using a cloud-based architecture without the need to invest in or maintain their ..read more
IT Connection Blogs
2w ago
Summary Bullets: • Telcos lean on emerging industry standards to further API programs. • Key to infra/app modernization success will be a collaboration between cloud and telco/networking players. This week’s MWC25 mega conference showcased the growing trend toward cloud consolidation in which telecommunications players are moving up the stack to offer enterprise developers and DevOps ..read more