Nokia today introduced its ‘Future X for industries’ strategy and architecture, developed by Bell Labs, which it said is designed to drive dramatic productivity improvements across a range of industry sectors. “As technologies such as industrial Internet of Things (IIoT);…
A new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) presents IDC’s inaugural forecast for the worldwide 5G network infrastructure market (NR) for the period 2018–2022. IDC’s inaugural forecast for the worldwide 5G network infrastructure market shows total 5G and 5G-related network…
At VMworld 2018 Europe taking place in Barcelona this week VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and CTO Ray O’Farrell previewed several technology offerings including VMware Blockchain and Project Dimension. According to the company, while blockchain is gaining popularity in companies worldwide, enterprises are working…
The Association for Passive Optical LAN (APOLAN) has released the findings of its APOLAN member survey, naming the top five factors that are driving the adoption of POL. These factors play a significant role in streamlining organizations’ smart building digital transformation strategies aimed…
A mere 6% of Canadian businesses can be considered “digital leaders,” according to the Dell Technologies Digital Transformation Index (the DT Index). The DT Index, which was completed in collaboration with Intel and released today, maps digital transformation progress of…
IBM Corp. and Red Hat announced today that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for US$190 per share in cash, representing a total…
At Huawei Connect 2018, Huawei officially released IoT Cloud Service 2.0 and announced its strategy for industrial IoT. According to the Global Industry Vision (GIV) 2025 report released by the company, the number of connected devices will reach 100 billion…
COLO-D has announced plans to develop a new 150 MW data center in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 15 kilometres from downtown Montreal. According to the company, the move will make it Canada’s largest data centre provider for enterprise customers. Simultaneously, COLO-D plans to…
Bell has announced the launch of its new Virtual Network Services (VNS) platform, which it said offers enterprise business customers a catalogue of on-demand network functions that reside its private cloud. The first of its kind in Canada, Bell VNS…
Tech employment in Canada expanded by nearly 45,000 jobs in 2017, to an estimated 1.2 million workers, according to Cyberprovinces 2018, published this week by CompTIA, the technology industry trade association. Net tech employment accounted for approximately 8.4% of the…
