Category: Wireless & Cloud

July 17, 2019

First came containers, then came Kubernetes. The world needed relief from the tedium and complexity of deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications, and Kubernetes answered the call. One factor that has propelled Kubernetes forward is that Kubernetes clusters can run […]

July 16, 2019

“VMWare allows the datacenter to act like a public cloud,” says VMWare COO Sanjay Poonen. “It is a multicloud world. While AWS will be first and preferred for us, we want every customer that has VMWare in the private cloud […]

July 10, 2019

UAE-based telecom operator Etisalat is investing more than AED 4b in rolling out 5G network base stations this year in a bid to stay ahead of its Middle East peers. Etisalat, which operates in 16 markets across the Middle East, […]

July 9, 2019

Microsoft’s Azure Sphere is an interesting concept, a mix of secure cloud services, secure devices, and a new Linux-based operating system, all rolled into a single platform and a Visual Studio-based development platform. I recently received one of the first […]

July 8, 2019

We know that 5G is fast, and the next-gen mobile connectivity standard should have higher download speeds than 4G. How much faster exactly, though? Try nearly three times, today’s report from the crowdsourced OpenSignal testing reveals. The top speed recorded […]

July 1, 2019

Google Cloud is plotting two datacentre expansions, in Europe and North America, to offer users locally hosted access to fully managed, cloud-based versions of Oracle’s database software. The cloud giant is working with long-time technology partner Atos to oversee the […]

June 26, 2019

Cloud storage services are getting increasingly competitive with new features for better file management, integration and usability. With Google testing a full offline storage mode for its Drive (beta is for GSuite users only), Microsoft has added a Personal Vault […]

June 13, 2019

5G is here. Well, at least in a few places in the US. The network of the future has started rolling out in the United States and across the globe across various carriers and starting in the first half of […]

June 11, 2019

For a technology that was born on Azure, beginning life as a derivative of its original platform WebJobs, Azure Functions has come a long way. It’s not just a cloud service, as it can be hosted in containers and run […]

June 5, 2019

5G networks might still only be available in a few countries, but Samsung is already working on 6G. Samsung is a minor, but growing, player in telecoms equipment and hopes demand for 5G kit will see its share of the […]