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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Mary de Wysocki, Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco

Forrester IT

Photo Copyright: Abhinav Sunil Sustainability in digital communications, data transmission, networking, and telecommunications is a critical component for climate action. Sustainability efforts in telecommunications have to span efforts in hardware as well as software; they […] of global electricity use.

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Microsoft to acquire Metaswitch Networks, bolstering Azure telecommunications efforts

GeekWire

Microsoft said it will acquire Metaswitch Networks , a 39-year-old company that develops software for cloud-based communication networks. The acquisition builds on Microsoft’s existing cloud-related work to help telecom companies with their 5G deployments.

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Boundless: Commercial open source geospatial software

CTOvision

Boundless develops and supports powerful software for enterprise Spatial IT applications. Boundless’ global customer base uses the OpenGeo Suite, a complete open source geospatial web services stack, to deploy solutions for web mapping, transportation, telecommunications, open government, and a diverse range of other solutions.

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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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Employees at Activision studio Raven Software formally organize union

The Verge

After five weeks of striking, the QA testers at Raven Software, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, have formed one of the first unions in a AAA game publisher. Since then, some members of the QA department engaged in a sustained strike at Raven Software, prompting the creation of a GoFundMe to support the striking members. “We

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Can Biden’s Executive Order Secure the Software Supply Chain?

CIO Business Intelligence

If you want to sell products powered by software to the federal government, you need to get familiar with those terms. Those three words are at the core of the section of Biden’s May 2021 EO on improving cybersecurity that is devoted to the software supply chain. A lot of software. The same ought to be true of software products.

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Software AG Ranked as a Leader in the Big Data Streaming Analytics Platforms

CTOvision

Jul 18, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Software AG was among the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc., In this evaluation, Software AG received top scores in the Current Offering and Strategy Categories, and among the highest scores in the Market Presence Category. RESTON, Va., Streaming analytics provides this capability.

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