Skype phones won't connect to Microsoft Teams after July 2023. The vendor has advised customers to begin planning an upgrade to new devices certified for Teams. Microsoft has given businesses four years to replace their Skype for Business Online phones with hardware designed for Teams. It's the latest move by Microsoft to pressure customers into switching to its new cloud-based collaboration service. This week's announcement stems from Microsoft's earlier decision to shut dow

After Amazon Web Services launched their new data centre in Hong Kong this April, all the major players of the network infrastructure industry are now present in the city. Several niche service providers - such as Heficed - are also gaining their footing in the Asia Pacific region due to the demand for more flexible and custom network infrastructure solutions. The global market of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), valued at $15.20 billion in 2016, is expected to develop to

Knowingly or not, enterprises employ IPv6 for many of their internet connections, and that means CASBs should support the protocol, too

According to Gartner Research, from now until the year 2022, 85 percent of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms, or the teams responsible for managing them. Moreover, 85 percent of Americans currently use at least one AI-powered device, program, or service, the Gallup polling organization reports. This bias is something I’ve known for a while as I followed AI systems from the late 1980s. The fact of the matter is that people program and

MWC Barcelona last month heavily focused on two fast-emerging technology trends; 5G and edge computing. Together, they will significantly impact businesses by enabling massive volumes of digital data to transfer between cloud servers located in multiple regions around the world as well as between IoT devices and edge nodes. This is due to the hyper-fast speed of 5G networks and edge computing architectures that have micro-clouds and data centres located closer to data-generat

Alibaba Cloud has taken the opportunity provided by its most recent Beijing Summit to elaborate on its near 10-year history – and explore a more integrated and intelligent future. The company noted that its cloud arm was ‘becoming the main business focus of Alibaba Group’ and that cloud adoption was ‘expected to continue and become more immersive in the traditional sectors across China.’ “Alibaba has championed cloud computing in China over the past 10 years and has been at t

New cloud monitoring and cloud management tools are becoming self-learning, with both pros and cons today As someone who’s worked with AI for the last 30 years (yes, it was a thing 30 years ago), we have often thought of its capabilities were overrated and used for the wrong things in many cases. Now that it’s cheap thanks to cloud computing, and much more effective thanks to the pace of innovation, AI as a solution is coming up again, including the use in cloud operations. T

Alliance Intelligent Cloud built on Microsoft Azure to power the Alliance’s latest connected services World’s leading automotive alliance to use Alliance Intelligent Cloud for connected infrastructure in nearly all 200 markets served by Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Alliance Intelligent Cloud to power the connected services in the all-new Renault Clio and the Nissan Leaf in Europe and Japan later this year Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, the world’s leading automotive alliance, t

An interesting if brief note from the analysts at Gartner this week: according to their forecasts, almost half of today’s platform as a service (PaaS) service offerings are cloud-only, with a $20 billion (€ 17) market revenue by the end of this year. The analyst firm’s landscape details more than 550 PaaS offerings from 360 vendors across 21 market segments. 48% of these offerings are cloud-only, with 90% only operating within a single PaaS market segment. In terms of the ove

Dans le Cloud public, la puissance de calcul est peut-être bon marché, mais elle n’est pas gratuite… La plupart des applications web sont aujourd’hui servies à travers une connexion HTTP sécurisée. Mais qui dit HTTP sécurisé dit cryptographie. Et qui dit cryptographie dit, du moins traditionnellement, impact sur les performances. Heureusement, les processeurs modernes sont désormais largement capables d’absorber ce coût en termes de puissance, et de nombreux équipements (clie