A new data throughput record has been set at Europe’s largest Internet Exchange (IX), DE-CIX Frankfurt. In parallel to the quarter-final second leg of the UEFA Champions League, on April 16 at 9:21pm (CEST), more than 17 terabits per second (Tbit/s) (to be specific, 17.09 Tbit/s) of data flowed over the IX for the first time – 17 terabits per second corresponds to 5.7 million videos in HD quality being streamed simultaneously. In an analogue world, 17 Tbit/s is equivalent to around 3.9 billion A4 pages of text – i.e. a stack more than 420 kilometres high, almost 50x higher than Mount ..read more

Home and leisure retail giant, The Range, is planning to increase profitability and online sales through its new technology partnership with Virtualstock.   The Range struck a multimillion-pound deal to buy the 93-year-old Wilko brand in 2023,  including the wilko.com website which was already utilising the Virtualstock platform. Now, both brands will benefit from Virtualstock’s cloud-based SaaS platform.   This new collaboration empowers both retailers to attain more scalable, profitable growth through dropship. Utilising a one-to-many connection, the retailers can qu ..read more

Chris Jackson, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Six Degrees, offers his thoughts on cloud strategies and the pressing nature of aligning them with Digital Transformation goals. Chris Jackson, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Six Degrees The rush to the cloud continues at an unrelenting pace. The public cloud segment of the market alone is expected to grow by over 20% this year to US$679 billion, according to Gartner – more than double the growth rate for the IT industry as a whole. To give this success story some wider context, back in 2010, the entire worldwide cloud services mark ..read more

Program Guest Speakers Include Thrive Global Founder and CEO Arianna Huffington, The Ohio State University Dean of Engineering Ayanna Howard, PhD, Governor of Colorado Jared Polis and Constellation Research Founder and CEO R ‘Ray’ Wang. Avaya, a global leader in customer experience and communications solutions, announced the guest speakers and new interactive experiences at Avaya ENGAGE─ the premier event where CX-savvy customers converge to discover how Avaya and its global ecosystem of partners empower organisations to engage customers and employees for maximum value, offering diverse pathwa ..read more

Research by Alteryx finds that 72% of business leaders across the UK have concerns about AI-produced answers but are not prioritising skillsets that will help mitigate risks. Alteryx, a leader in AI for enterprise analytics, has released findings from independent research revealing the workforce side effects of AI. As business leaders and recruiters across the UK prepare for an AI-infused labour market transition, many existing roles will evolve and become obsolete, reshaping the skill stack of the future workforce at an accelerated pace. However, the research titled Defining the Enterprise of ..read more

Two-fifths of organisations are upgrading to cellular connectivity to take advantage of technologies like IoT and AI to support sustainability goals and the rush to adopt new technology is leaving networks exposed after nearly half of firms report being the victim of a successful cyberattack over the last year.   Cradlepoint, part of Ericsson, a leader in cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless network and security solutions, has published the latest findings from its annual State of Connectivity in Europe report which explores the views of the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy ..read more

Payara Services will showcase its latest advances in the development landscape at JAX 2024, which will take place from 22-26 April in Mainz, Germany. In addition to exhibiting through physical and virtual stands at the event, the company’s approach to Platform Engineering for businesses delivering solutions with Jakarta EE will be discussed in one of the main conference’s sessions. By integrating platforms seamlessly with code, Payara is redefining the development landscape to help businesses deliver better value to their customers for greater profitability. JAX attendees will be able to learn ..read more

Data centre specialist, LCL, is to expand one of the region’s most connected data centres, LCL Brussels-North, to continue supporting the growing digital economy. A total of €30 million will be invested. The design of the new Tier III data centre has already been certified by the renowned Uptime Institute. There are already four data centres in Diegem, and they will be joined in the next two years by a fifth data centre, and the design of the new data centre in Diegem was Tier III certified by Uptime Institute. LCL Data Centers specifically chose its data centre complex in Diegem for the addit ..read more

Alongside growing regulatory requirements and a fragmented IT landscape across Central and Eastern Europe, an Austrian bank provider, Raiffeisen Bank International, needed an agile, comprehensive solution that prioritised security and usability for its user base of 17 million customers. Alongside growing regulatory requirements and a fragmented IT landscape across Central and Eastern Europe, an Austrian bank provider, Raiffeisen Bank International, needed an agile, comprehensive solution that prioritised security and usability for its user base of 17 million customers. Based in Vienna, Raiffei ..read more

New contract builds on existing partnership to deliver a better experience for road users in England. Version 1, a leader in Digital Transformation, has announced it has been chosen by National Highways as a strategic long-term partner for managed services and collaboration across its infrastructure and platforms in a £47.5m contract award. The announcement builds on an existing six-year partnership with National Highways, where Version 1 has consistently shown accountability and excellence in delivery of transformative cloud adoption programmes, which in turn has helped National Highways to k ..read more