
NTT DOCOMO To Establish A 5G Consortium In Thailand With Leading Partners
NTT DOCOMO and an international group of other leading firms jointly announced that they have signed a basic agreement to establish a consortium to provide 5G solutions, first in Thailand and later in other Asia Pacific countries with the possible inclusion of additional partners. The initial members of the 5G Global Enterprise solution Consortium (5GEC) …

Global Study: C-Suite Execs Experienced More Mental Health Challenges Than Their Employees In Wake Of Global Pandemic
Mental health challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted workers differently depending on their seniority, generation, and location according to a new report by Oracle and Workplace Intelligence, a HR research and advisory firm. The study of more than 12,000 employees, managers, HR leaders and C-Suite executive across 11 countries, found that C-suite executives …

MongoDB Announces General Availability Of Device To Cloud Data Sync To Accelerate Mission-Critical Mobile Development
MongoDB, Inc., the leading, modern general purpose database platform, today announced the general availability of MongoDB Realm Sync, a fully managed service which syncs data between the popular Realm mobile database and MongoDB Atlas. This new solution addresses the unique technical challenges of mobile and offline-first development, allowing organizations to rapidly build responsive applications for …

Establishing A Scalable Collaboration Between Security And DevOps
In a recent blog post, we’ve discussed the journey many IT organizations are on to digital transformation and the trajectory they have taken in recent years. Drawing from a recent webinar run with 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, we looked at the cloudy future of workload deployment locations and current DevOps adoption …

Hybrid Cloud Will Be The Future Of UK Public Sector Infrastructure, NetApp Freedom Of Information Research Finds
New research from NetApp, a global cloud-led, data-centric software company, has found that a mixture of clouds and local infrastructure will continue to be the norm for the foreseeable future in the UK’s public sector. According to a freedom of information (FOI) request made to governmental departments, agencies, and public bodies, over half (53%) of …

How Developers Can Support User Wellbeing
This article is part 1 of a 3 part mini-series on digital wellbeing. The content has been authored and contributed to by the Google Digital Wellbeing Team (Kate Lockhart), the Google Material UXR (Michael Gillbert), and the Google P&E Developer Brand Marketing Team (Lily Sheringham). Keep a lookout for the further two articles in the …

Cloud Native Predictions For 2021 And Beyond
Cross-post from Chris Aniszczyk‘s personal blog I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break as the first couple weeks of January 2021 have been pretty wild, from insurrections to new COVID strains. In cloud native land, the CNCF recently released its annual report on all the work we accomplished last year. I recommend everyone take an opportunity …

Assessing Reliability Risks On Kubernetes Clusters
The VMware Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team is proud to announce an open source Reliability Scanner for Kubernetes! It includes an extensible set of reliability assessments, or checks, performed against various components of a cluster, such as Pods, Namespaces, Services, etc. Operators can then configure appropriate constraints for the checks on their clusters. Here is …

Rackspace Technology Named Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Equality Fourth Year In A Row
Rackspace Technologyâ„¢, a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, announced that for the fourth consecutive year, Rackspace Technology received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index (HRC), noting the company as one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.” HRC is the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey …

Telstra And AWS Join Forces On Edge Computing And Take Businesses To The cloud
Telstra and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a framework agreement with the intent to develop differentiated multi-access edge computing solutions that will bring cloud services closer to Australian customers and their devices while delivering game changing speed and flexibility. Telstra intends to explore a range of AWS’s edge compute solutions that give organisations the …