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By Lily Bennett
From developers and tech leaders to start-ups and students, over 60,000 attendees from around the world gathered in Las Vegas for the 13th AWS re:Invent. This year’s event showcased continuing innovation from AWS, offered an abundance of content for every type of attendee, plus a sprawling Expo Hall hosting hundreds of AWS partners and industry vendors.
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By Lily Bennett
Last week, Lisbon was jam-packed with innovation as Web Summit 2024 saw over 70,000 attendees and 3,000 companies at one of the largest tech conferences in the world. Across the exhibition floor and track presentations, a clear theme emerged: while AI offers numerous benefits, its large-scale impact on data processing raises concerns among many parties, from consumers, legislators, and government bodies.
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By Lily Bennett
Africa’s connectivity landscape is undergoing a rapid evolution, propelled by increased investments in telecommunications infrastructure, data centres, and cloud services. However, the continent still faces challenges, including infrastructure gaps and regulatory complexities.
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By Lily Bennett
As enterprises continue to migrate workloads to cloud environments, they are reaping significant benefits, such as scalability, agility, and the ability to deploy applications in near real-time. However, these advantages are often undermined by the limitations of legacy networks. Traditional networks, restricted by long-term contracts and inflexible delivery timelines, are no longer fit for purpose in a cloud-driven world.
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By Lily Bennett
Software as a Service (SaaS) is growing at a rapid rate with businesses increasingly reliant on cloud-based solutions. According to the 2024 State of SaaS Growth report, organisations globally now use an average of 371 SaaS applications. This surge in adoption means that IT leaders are tasked with managing a more complex environment, which comes with a suite of challenges. To ensure the performance, security and reliability of these services, network connectivity is critical.
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By Lily Bennett
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) is only getting bigger and better. This year’s show saw over 45,000 attendees and featured 1,350 exhibitors from around the world. The four-day event explored the latest advancements and trends shaping the future of the media and broadcasting industry, with AI at the forefront.
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By Lily Bennett
While it’s easy to think that everything is now in the cloud, there are still some use cases and some businesses that need private data centres. In this blog, we look at the benefits of colocation and explore the key considerations for businesses when choosing colocation services. Colocation, often shortened to ‘colo’, is a service provided by data centre owners and operators where the floor space and facilities, including electricity and connectivity, are rented to private enterprises.
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By Lily Bennett
As we approach Oracle CloudWorld - a three-day event focused on cloud innovation, automation, and AI, where attendees can learn and network - we take a look at the innovation and growth Oracle Cloud has embarked on this year. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has experienced notable growth in fiscal year 2024. According to Oracle’s Q4 results, Cloud Revenue (IaaS plus SaaS) reached $5.3 billion, marking a 20% increase in both USD and constant currency.
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By Lily Bennett
In a recent panel discussion, “Navigating the Convergence of Networks, Clouds, and Generative AI,” hosted by Digital Realty and Console Connect, industry experts shared their views on the challenges associated with AI adoption and its future impact on business operations. The panel featured industry experts from both Digital Realty and Console Connect, alongside Jacky Chan from Votee AI, a multi-stacked AI start-up based in Hong Kong.
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By Lily Bennett
AI is the current “big thing” in tech and its development marks a pivotal chapter in computing history, where it is redefining how industries operate globally. As IT leaders and CTOs navigate their organisations through this transformative landscape, understanding the direction generative AI is heading and knowing how to manage this technology effectively is crucial.
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By Console Connect
Yogesh Lulla in a carpool karaoke-style interview with Cellusys and Hot Telecom’s Isabelle Paradis. They talk about the transformation that IoT, Blockchain and AI are said to bring in the coming years and more.
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By Console Connect
In the second round of the HotTelecom Super CEO Faceoff Series, 8 CEOs including our very own Marc Halbfinger, answer the question “What Keeps You Awake At Night?” Click here to see the very thought-provoking answers
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By Console Connect
The 14th Telecom Review Leaders' Summit 2020 Panel Discussion – Wholesale and Capacity: Managing the Explosion of Data Traffic discussion covers how the wholesale and capacity industry played a major role amid COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on data traffic, challenges brought about by COVID-19 and more.
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By Console Connect
PCCW Global Console Connect IoT service is to address challenges in deploying IoT connectivity by offering unified integration through our software defined network, which supports digital transformation and development of new business models and offerings. Billions of IoT devices can be connected, helping you stay relevant to your customers and grow new revenues while helping your customers gain a competitive advantage.
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By Console Connect
The world of business has changed, so we’ve changed everything - with Software Defined Interconnection®. Putting you in complete control. Console Connect takes your business through the multi-cloud online world, with ease. All with a simple to use platform, that makes this, feel like this.. Connect anything directly to anything or everything. In ways and to places you’ve never been able to before. Gain access to one of the world’s most advanced, robust, global networks.
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By Console Connect
Console Connect by PCCW Global is dedicated to helping broadcasting organisations overcome the barriers and complexity of connecting their business critical applications. See how we enabled Hong Kong Tourism Board to scale up and down on-demand easily and how the benefits of Console Connect allowed them to attract the best talent and increase an ever wider audience. VR and higher resolutions mean more bandwidth and lower latency for the wider ecosystem of broadcasters and streaming organizations and Console Connect is here to support you.
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By Console Connect
Some essential and easy tips for improving your enterprise connectivity Let's face it, the traditional public internet wasn't made for enterprise workloads. As enterprises increase their number of connections to private data centres and public cloud assets, the shortcomings of the public internet are becoming even more apparent. The Definitive Enterprise Connectivity Guide recognises this fundamental challenge facing network engineers and network architects and offers some essential and easy tips on how to improve your enterprise connectivity.
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By Console Connect
How to use APIs to automate network connectivity Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) exist to abstract the underlying complexity of a system whilst allowing third parties to integrate and with and extend their own systems and capabilities. At least 50% of all B2B collaboration occurs via APIs. Without access to APIs, partners can't easily interact with an organisation's data or services, meaning that connectivity to infrastructure assets becomes something the organisation has to stop and build itself, leaving it vulnerable to competition
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By Console Connect
How SD-WAN, dedicated cloud connections, MPLS and the public internet compliment each other as essential components of the hybrid enterprise WAN Enterprises' use of multiple public and private connectivity is only going to continue into the future, bringing unwanted complication to their networks as they connect not just site-to-site and site-to-cloud, but also cloud-to-cloud.
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By Console Connect
It has been a transformative year for Africa's cloud ecosystem. Considerable new investment is going into carrier-neutral data centres across the region and slowly but surely the adoption of cloud services is gathering pace. Meanwhile, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led many businesses to accelerate adoption of cloud services, and reaffirmed the need to push ahead with digital transformation initiatives.
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By Console Connect
6 examples of how private, on-demand connectivity will transform your enterprise network Console Connect can help you transform your network with private, scalable and on-demand connectivity. Learn about six different customer cases that will help you understand how common connectivity challenges can be easily overcome with Console Connect's solution. Console Connect is a Software-Defined Interconnection platform, enabling the connection of Cloud-based, business-critical connections to always be simple, secure and straightforward.
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By Console Connect
The Enterprise Guide to Hybrid Cloud Strategy As Enterprise IT continues to shift and businesses are under pressure to innovate, the public Cloud has become the host for an increasing number of mission critical applications, causing network demands for availability, security and bandwidth to rapidly expand.
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Connecting networks, clouds and businesses, Console Connect by PCCW Global is dedicated to helping organisations overcome the barriers and complexity of connecting to the cloud. Our goal is to provide businesses with on-demand, dedicated connectivity into cloud service providers and partners around the globe, making access to business-critical applications simple, predictable and ultra-secure.
Console Connect by PCCW Global is the world’s first global software-defined interconnection platform, born out of the belief that business connectivity should be simpler and more accessible for all. Console Connect enables users to efficiently manage their private connections via a user-friendly interface, regardless of their level of technical expertise.
Why Choose The Console Connect Platform?
- Connect to more things, faster: Connect data centres, businesses and apps on-demand. Directly connect to the world’s leading clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, Tencent, IBM Cloud, Alicloud and more. Get one-click private access to Internet Exchanges, as well as IoT and SaaS partners.
- Reach further across the globe: Console Connect automates one of the world’s largest high performance networks. We go beyond North America, Europe and Asia and reach into Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. We are enabled in 40+ countries and growing, fast.
- Reliability and performance you can count on: At the core of Console Connect is the continuity and security of PCCW Global’s fibre and IP network. The same uncontended, end-to-end network that is trusted by multinationals and service providers across the world.
- Connectivity as agile as your business: Take the pain out of network provisioning and management with self-service, on-demand connections. Access and manage Console Connect through our simple, powerful web application or API.
Connect data centres, partners and clouds on-demand with Software Defined Interconnection® and Console Connect.