As we look ahead to 2021, delivering Europe’s recovery will be the driving force for governments across the region. We commend the EU efforts in this and in making sure the recovery is used to reinvent the economy and fuel the green and digital twin transitions. The spending targets of 37% for green and 20% for digital will be key anchors for delivery across the region. We welcome the EU environment ministers’ conclusions on Digitalisation…

Well, that didn’t take long. Google fixed multiple problems with its services this week but less than a day later network administrators and users started seeing another rash of Gmail problems. Google confessed, “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior. We will provide an update by 12/15/20, 5:30 PM [Eastern…

We are experiencing a once-in-a-century global pandemic, which has had a profound impact on all of humankind. Even people who have not been infected have seen unprecedented disruptions to their everyday lives, with overburdened health systems, business shutdowns leading to job losses, and food shortages, among others. This pandemic is a clear wake-up call, reminding us to be better prepared as a society to deal with these challenges. Connecting researchers and developers Earlier this year,…

Follow along with our blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow, where we’ll address healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate.  This year has brought unprecedented challenge and opportunity for healthcare organizations as they look to secure their patients, clinicians, care teams, endpoints and data. With the shift to remote work, heightened demand for telehealth and virtual care, and more devices and connections on the network, there has never been a more…

Cisco Blogs / SP360: Service Provider / You Are an FCC RDOF Bid Winner, Now What? Congratulations to the 180 service providers that won FCC reverse auction for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). You are on your way to providing over 10 million rural Americans with access to get high-speed internet service. Phase I of the RDOF auction was set to disperse $16B in funding, but the unprecedented response resulted in $9.2B being awarded…

Lenovo Data Center Group has released new storage and data-management tools designed to boost performance and improve monitoring and analytic capabilities across enterprise systems that span the edge, data center and cloud. The enhancements include a new all-flash storage array with end-to-end NVMe support, an updated cloud-based management platform, and a new fibre channel switch. Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5100F The new Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5100F is high-performance, low-latency, all-NVMe storage at an affordable price point, designed to…