Today’s International Women’s Day is about many things, including gender equality, closing the job opportunity gap and breaking down barriers to career advancement. Yet perhaps more than anything else, IWD is about tales of perseverance. Take the story of Dominique Bastos (pictured), senior vice president of cloud at Persistent Systems Inc. and former sales leader at Amazon Web ...

How fast is the private wireless space moving? Fast enough for a major tech player to announce a partnership with one company and then watch its new partner get acquired by a competitor 48 hours later. That’s exactly what happened when Dell Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with Athonet Inc. on February 22. Before the ...

It would be difficult to overstate the current wave of hype surrounding generative AI. The November release of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool capable of generating human-like text, ignited a frenzy of publicity compared by some to the introduction of the first iPhone in 2007. With recent news headlines like “Generative AI is a legal ...

The enterprise quest for a single source of truth involving data took a step forward last month with Snowflake Inc.’s rollout of its Telecom Data Cloud. Snowflake’s announcement involved the deployment of a fully managed, easy-to-use platform for telco customers. One of those users is AT&T Inc., which is driving a single source of truth ...

Companies building new technologies for 5G deployment make a compelling argument for why the more robust wireless standard is the path forward. While Wi-Fi is ubiquitous now and used for a variety of needs, its immense popularity can also make it less attractive for enterprise use cases where performance and reliability can determine business success ...

Federated Wireless and Amazon Web Services Inc. are collaborating on a 5G private wireless initiative for a major mixed-use development in the Washington, D.C. area. The announcement in February provided details around the AWS-Federated partnership in cooperation with developer JBG Smith Properties to deploy 5G private wireless at National Landing urban community. The site will also ...

Tech companies continue to hire more men than women. This stark reality was highlighted in research conducted by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. The group’s 2022 report found that tech women’s representation in new hires increased slightly to 31.7%. The report also found that women comprised a disproportionate share of the post-pandemic “Great ...

The telecommunications world is experiencing significant transformation, and this week’s gathering at MWC 2023 in Barcelona is providing attendees with a sense that the gears of change within a traditionally slow-moving industry are beginning to pick up speed. “These big transformations almost take a perfect storm of things that come together,” said Zeus Kerravala (pictured, third ...

[Editor’s Note: Important event information updated with new date.] The shift to cloud has been a game-changer for businesses across various industries, enabling them to increase efficiency, scalability and innovation.  However, cloud operations present new challenges that traditional IT management practices may not be equipped to handle. For example, most companies adopting cloud technologies often ...

An open standard for radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a significant topic of conversation at MWC in Barcelona this week. One reason for the interest is that Open RAN could significantly reduce the cost of building private 5G networks for enterprises. Dell’Oro Group Inc. recently revised its Open RAN forecast higher, with an ...