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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:13:13 GMT</pubDate>

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    <title>Orange Business 2026 Analyst Event – Platforms, Partnerships, Sovereign Cloud, AI, and a Potential Rival to SD-WAN</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133190&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Orange Business’s 2026 analyst summit highlighted the progress made with key projects such as internal IT transformation and Evolution Platform. Orange’s evolving go-to-market strategy is also developing to maximize and scale its platform investment.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton - John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-07-24T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>AWS Summit 2026 Builds on Agentic AI’s Success in App Modernization</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133155&amp;rss</link>
    <description>At AWS Summit 2026, agentic AI was a key theme, but security, quantum computing, application networking, and data center configurations also played prominently. Enthusiasm for new tech was high, despite worries over cost management.</description>
    <author>Rena Bhattacharyya</author>
    <pubDate>2026-07-13T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>5G Watch Q2 2026: 5G Use Cases Broaden and Deepen Across Verticals</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133133&amp;rss</link>
    <description>5G use cases are deepening and broadening across verticals, commensurate with 5G SA deployments and telco-vendor partnerships that are unlocking opportunities in differentiated go-to-market positioning.</description>
    <author>John Marcus - Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>T-Mobile Global Industrial IoT Services</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=129659&amp;rss</link>
    <description>T-Mobile is catching up to rivals in IoT by leveraging its standalone 5G-Advanced network for slicing and RedCap and deploying T-Platform for unified management. However, it has disclosed no new IoT updates since late 2025.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-30T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>BT International and Verizon Form a Joint Venture With Huge Global NaaS Potential and the Looming Specter of Past Failures</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133098&amp;rss</link>
    <description>BT and Verizon’s JV can deliver a potent global footprint for WAN and NaaS services and provides some answers on BTI’s future. But a long wait until it closes in 2027 highlights that many decisions remain to be made and fiendish complexity awaits.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton - John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>IBM Joins OpenAI to Beat Adversaries at Their Own AI Game</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133071&amp;rss</link>
    <description>IBM is teaming with OpenAI to incorporate advanced AI security capabilities to deflect machine-speed threats from threat actors.  IBM is using AI to analyze application code to find and fix vulnerabilities faster.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-23T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Accenture Aims to Take a Commanding Lead in OT Security with $4 Billion Spend But Still Faces a Contentious Playing Field</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133062&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Accenture is taking a majority stake in OT security platform vendor  Dragos to build a comprehensive defense for critical infrastructure.  With industrial infrastructure under threat, demand for effective security solutions is surging.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-19T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>HCLTech Hones Its Application Development Practice, Reflecting the Disruptive Impact of AI</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133029&amp;rss</link>
    <description>HCLTech’s new vision and strategy for helping customers modernize applications includes a portfolio that encompasses AI driven modernization, AI native application development, intelligent quality engineering, and integration services.</description>
    <author>Rena Bhattacharyya</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-12T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Telekom Malaysia - Business Services Asia</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=99791&amp;rss</link>
    <description>TM One continues to enhance its infrastructure with the progress of its TM-Nxera AI-ready data center and 5G agreement with U Mobile.</description>
    <author>Alfie Amir</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-12T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Vodafone Business - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95428&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Vodafone Business has made good progress on its strategic priorities, transforming itself by embedding AI across all aspects of the company while forging new partnerships and acquiring new capabilities to strengthen its position across key markets.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-05-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>T-Mobile US - Business Services US</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94972&amp;rss</link>
    <description>T-Mobile sharpens its enterprise focus with strong network capabilities, improved security/management, and continued market momentum. Gaps remain in solutions and wireline, though recent broadband investments modestly improve its converged story.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-05-28T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Tata Communications - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95151&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Tata Communications has strengthened its product portfolio with new on-demand, high bandwidth digital solutions with self-healing network technology as it looks to cement its position as an innovative player in the enterprise connectivity market.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-05-28T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Verizon DBIR: Adversaries Weaponize AI in Stealth Attacks by Targeting Points of Exposure</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132952&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Verizon’s 2026 DBIR research highlights the AI-driven tactics threat actors are using to penetrate the enterprise.  Cybercriminals are using AI to spot and exploit vulnerabilities, reducing the time to breach from months to hours.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-05-22T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Orange Business - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94913&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Orange Business is accelerating its AI-driven, sovereign, platform-based transformation, leveraging strategy and innovation to sustain  success. Now scaling up its platform-based services, it remains a leader among enterprise service providers.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-05-11T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Digital Sovereignty Creates New Opportunities for Telcos, but a Mindset Change and a Different Business Model are Needed</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132872&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Digital sovereignty is becoming a boardroom topic in an era of global volatility. Telcos have some natural advantages in helping the industry navigate these challenges. Changing the approach is key for successful telco-led monetization.</description>
    <author>Dustin Kehoe - Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-30T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>IBM Global Services - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94907&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Slower revenue growth in Q1 FY2026 due to sluggish legacy software sales raised concerns about IBM’s momentum.  But investments in AI and automation should boost long-term expansion.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-30T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Lumen Research Paints a Dark Picture of the Threat Landscape in 2026</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132879&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Black Lotus Labs, Lumen’s threat intelligence arm, published research highlighting the dangerous nature of today’s threat environment.  The report notes that traditional tools are no match for adversaries now.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-30T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Telefonica - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=96314&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Telefónica is advancing its autonomous networks and enhancing its digital portfolio leveraging AI. Its B2B segment remains a key growth engine with strong momentum across cybersecurity, cloud, and IoT.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>HCLTech - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=107093&amp;rss</link>
    <description>HCLTech is reporting good traction with enterprises in AI adoption. It is developing its own AI solutions and IP while also working with partners to develop AI capabilities. Physical AI and AI Factory are key focus areas for the company.</description>
    <author>Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-28T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>From Passive Pipes to Intelligent Platforms – AI is Reshaping How Carriers Deliver Enterprise Networking</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132843&amp;rss</link>
    <description>AI will create new demands on service provider networks, especially as agentic traffic begins to overtake more traditional forms of data. Provider NaaS and network infrastructure strategies are evolving to meet those needs, but it is early days.</description>
    <author>Dustin Kehoe - Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>BT International - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=128996&amp;rss</link>
    <description>BT Group has established BT International as a standalone unit with its own profit and loss accountability, while simultaneously strengthening its partner ecosystem to drive growth through its digital platforms.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-22T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Accenture - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94894&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Accenture is benefiting from the demand for AI and data solutions. It is driving further growth through a series of acquisitions to strengthen its capabilities in AI and high-growth sectors (e.g., capital projects).</description>
    <author>Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>DXC Technology - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=103472&amp;rss</link>
    <description>DXC is seeing results in stronger than anticipated earnings from its two-pronged strategy to steady its legacy business while moving forward with new AI-driven solutions. The company also retooled its sales enablement function.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Atos - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94892&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Atos has made significant progress in transforming its business and focusing on more profitable areas. It is looking to build agentic AI, digital sovereignty, and cybersecurity that will help many of its customers to accelerate their AI adoption.</description>
    <author>Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-09T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Deutsche Telekom - Business Services Europe / Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94881&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Deutsche Telekom is focusing on sovereignty in cloud and satellite solutions, in addition to boosting its AI initiatives, and industrial verticalization.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-08T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Salesforce Nails Team Collaboration with New Slackbot Features, but Security Poses a Troubling Question</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132768&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Salesforce announced more than 30 features for the Slackbot AI agent with which users can leverage apps, third-party AI agents, and data to get work accomplished more effectively. Critically missing from the mix are details regarding security.</description>
    <author>Gregg Willsky</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-03T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>AI Needs a New Digital Infrastructure Framework, and Can Revolutionize Network Automation</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132746&amp;rss</link>
    <description>AI is reshaping IT from centralized resources to distributed, hybrid multi-cloud environments. Equinix is supporting this transition through its Distributed AI Hub framework as well as embedding AI into Equinix Fabric to enable network automation.</description>
    <author>Siow Meng Soh - Dustin Kehoe</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-31T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Akamai Research Shows AI-Powered Attacks are Targeting Undersecured APIs</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132748&amp;rss</link>
    <description>New Akamai research shows adversaries are raising their game with automation and AI to fuel faster and more damaging attacks.  These breaches are often going unnoticed, appearing as poor performance until the real loss surfaces later.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-31T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>EY Survey Reveals Enterprises are Investing in AI to Repel Adversaries Weaponizing the Very Same Technology</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132739&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Recent EY research shows security practitioners see both sides of the AI coin – as foundational to their security strategies but also as a dangerous threat.  Most think their security budgets are inadequate to battle AI-powered attacks.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-30T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>ElevenLabs/IBM Tie-Up Looks Promising on Paper, but Some Big Questions Loom</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132735&amp;rss</link>
    <description>ElevenLabs and IBM are planning to integrate ElevenLabs’s text-to-speech and speech-to-text solutions with IBM watsonx Orchestrate agentic AI platform.  There are promising aspects to the partnership but also major concerns.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-27T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Digital Workspace: Competitive Landscape Assessment</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=103695&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Despite pressure from falling usage among enterprises, IP voice is seen as a core product by most providers with the contact center market offering the biggest opportunity for growth.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Verizon Business - US and Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94926&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Verizon Business continues to be a premier competitor. It fills both fixed and mobile needs, serves customers of all sizes, and has a global brand. The Frontier acquisition and onboarding of a new CEO add momentum but also uncertainty.</description>
    <author>Gregg Willsky</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Cisco Delivers a Slew of Security Solutions Critical to Protecting AI Agents, but Dense Competition Could Limit Adoption</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132717&amp;rss</link>
    <description>At RSAC 2026, Cisco launched a slew of new solutions designed to protect AI agents.  While there are compelling tools in the mix, the sprawling nature of the offers begs the question about integration complexity.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>KPN Business Analyst Day 2026: Secure Connectivity, Sovereignty, and Observability Drive Growth</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132682&amp;rss</link>
    <description>KPN is defending its connectivity leadership while expanding further in security, IoT, CPaaS, cloud services, and private 5G. The plan is supported by an increased focus on partner-led mid-market coverage and AI-driven automation of operations.</description>
    <author>John Marcus - Beatriz Valle</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-18T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Lumen - Business Services US and Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94901&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Lumen has centered its strategy on delivering low-latency multi-cloud/AI connectivity for enterprises and wholesale partners across North America. It is increasing investment in its network buildout program boosted by the sale of its FTTH business.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton - Gregg Willsky</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-18T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Telstra Enterprise - Business Services Australia</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95110&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Telstra Enterprise continues to make steady progress in its enterprise “reset”. At the same time, it has established a strong network foundation through the development of its high-speed intercity network  to support future growth.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-16T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Google Closes $32 Billion Wiz Acquisition, Raising Its Security Game with an AI-Ready Platform</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132664&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Google completed its acquisition of Israeli-American security vendor Wiz, adding the latter’s security and AI platform to its portfolio.  Incorporating AI, the technology promises to elevate threat intelligence.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-12T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>AT&amp;T - Business Services US and Global</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94895&amp;rss</link>
    <description>AT&amp;T Business continues to center its identity around converged reliable, consistent, and secure business-grade connectivity through 5G and fiber, to remain a premier network provider in the US.</description>
    <author>Gregg Willsky</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-04T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>IBM X-Force Threat Index 2026: Adversaries Use AI as a Weapon in Scaling Attacks</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132631&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Threat actors are applying AI as an offensive weapon to breach organizations.  IBM research found a dramatic increase in the exploitation of public-facing apps as adversaries take advantage of major gaps in their targets’ security defenses.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-02T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Singtel - Business Services Asia</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94874&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Singtel increased its focus on AI and data center while expanding its portfolio in technologies such as quantum and 5G.</description>
    <author>Alfie Amir</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-02T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>In Focus: Neoclouds</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132539&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Neoclouds are a new generation of cloud service providers specializing in AI-focused data center infrastructure and GPU-as-a-Service (GPaaS) i.e., renting out computing power to big tech companies and enterprises building large language models.</description>
    <author>Beatriz Valle</author>
    <pubDate>2026-02-05T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>NTT Data - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94922&amp;rss</link>
    <description>NTT Data is accelerating global growth through acquisitions while continuing to forge new strategic partnerships to reinforce its position as a leading global IT and consulting provider and unlock new opportunities.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-01-08T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>ISC2's Security Study Finds an Overburdened Workforce Embracing AI</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132460&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Recent research conducted by the ISC2 consortium found that skills shortages and employee retention issues still vex security practitioners.  These challenges have consequences in terms of efficiency and organizational insecurity.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2025-12-31T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>What's the Next Phase for the Private 5G Market After Nokia Steps Back?</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132409&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Nokia’s Enterprise Campus Edge potential sale plans sparked private 5G uncertainty, but the market is growing. Expect more SI/MSP-led multi-vendor solutions, with buyers prioritizing roadmap clarity, OT integration, and lifecycle risk management.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2025-12-17T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>BT International Sets Out Its Compelling Business Platform Vision as Questions About Its Future Remain</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132379&amp;rss</link>
    <description>BT International is setting out a strategy that, while not fully formed, already delivers reassuring clarity tightly centered on its Global Fabric WAN and IP voice capabilities. Messaging around security and managed services needs work, however.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton - Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-12-09T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Proximus is Thinking NaaS as its Next Enterprise Strategy at Think NXT 2025</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132367&amp;rss</link>
    <description>The third Proximus Think NXT event focused on sovereignty, cyber defense, and the company announcing plans towards a ‘telco-as-a-platform’ business direction.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-12-05T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Palo Alto Networks Shakes Security &amp; Observability Markets with Chronosphere Acquisition</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132326&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Palo Alto Networks has made another aggressive M&amp;A move with its planned acquisition of observability startup Chronosphere, expanding its reach into the enterprise.</description>
    <author>Steve Schuchart - Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2025-11-21T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Verizon Mobile Security Index: In the AI Era, the Human Element Remains the Weak Link</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132314&amp;rss</link>
    <description>A new Verizon survey spotlights how the enterprise’s reliance on mobile and IoT devices created an expanded attack surface. Organizations seeking to combat AI-driven and other threats to this environment are prioritizing cybersecurity investments.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2025-11-20T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Microsoft Extends Digital Sovereignty Controls and Resources</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132270&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Microsoft is expanding its digital sovereignty functionality including AI data processing residency.  The company also bolstered resources globally, establishing a European board of directors and adding capacity.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
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    <title>Cisco Appeals to MSPs with New Multi-Customer Management Functionality for Security Cloud Control</title>
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    <description>Cisco is adding multi-customer management features to its Security Cloud Control Platform. This functionality will make it easier for MSPs to offer unified security services.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2025-11-05T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>In Focus: European Challengers - Altnets</title>
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    <description>European challengers both pose and face competition with incumbents and each other. The market is characterized by consolidation and battle for market share. Growth is hard won and driven by expanded network reach, innovation, and acquisitions.</description>
    <author>Robert Pritchard</author>
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    <description>Telefonica’s Transform &amp; Grow vision has highlighted areas such as cybersecurity and sovereign cloud where Telefonica is a realistic market player. What is now needed are details of how the provider will verify its long-term market relevance.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2025-11-04T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <description>ZTE strengthens its enterprise business with private 5G, ISAC, wider use cases, and AI capabilities.</description>
    <author>Alfie Amir</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-31T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Huawei Demonstrates Agentic AI and 5G-Advanced Enable More Efficient Networks and Differentiated Experiences</title>
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    <description>Huawei is developing agentic AI capabilities to help telecom operators drive O&amp;M efficiency. It is also demonstrating how operators can leverage 5G-A and slicing to support industry transformation, and stay relevant in the B2B market.</description>
    <author>Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-27T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <description>Tencent shows a steady momentum in expanding internationally with broad cloud and AI portfolio, combined with its strong capabilities in internet, media, gaming, collaboration, social media, and fintech sectors.</description>
    <author>Alfie Amir - Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-21T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Tencent Cloud Global Analyst Conference 2025: Expand Internationally with Cloud, Sovereignty, and AI – Part 2</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132210&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Tencent shows a steady momentum in expanding internationally with broad cloud and AI portfolio, combined with its strong capabilities in internet, media, gaming, collaboration, social media, and fintech sectors.</description>
    <author>Alfie Amir - Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-21T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>GITEX Global 2025 Roundup: Conference Evolves to Demonstrate UAE’s Regional Leadership on AI and Smart Public Services</title>
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    <description>GITEX continues to be an outlet for global vendors to showcase announced solutions. Some new deal announcements were noteworthy, though the conference has evolved somewhat to become a medium for the UAE to demonstrate its leadership in tech and AI.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
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    <title>Lumen Seeks to be the AI-Ready Networking Partner of Choice for Enterprises and AI Platforms</title>
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    <description>Lumen set out a vision based on being the most connected, agile, and easy to work with provider for AI connectivity. The company will support its vision with a regular cadence of portfolio repositioning and expansion to support its ambitions.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-16T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Google Cloud Opens the Door to Advancing AI with Gemini Enterprise Launch</title>
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    <description>Google Cloud made a splash with its introduction of Gemini Enterprise, a platform that executives say acts as a “front door” to marry AI with enterprise data and tools. This promises to serve many functions, including content creation.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo - Gregg Willsky</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-10T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>LevelBlue Research Finds Manufacturing Organizations are at Risk and Underprepared for Cyber Threats</title>
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    <description>Recent research conducted by MSSP LevelBlue reveals a disconnect between the escalating threat to manufacturing from bad actors and the sector’s readiness to defend its assets.  Less than one-third said they are prepared for AI-driven attacks.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2025-09-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>OpenText Survey Shows AI is Driving MSP Growth but a Skill Deficit Remains an Issue</title>
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    <description>Recent research from security vendor OpenText shows a mismatch between MSPs’ desire to tap SMB demand for AI-driven applications and their ability to help clients deploy them.  But other indicators show strong demand for managed services.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2025-09-26T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132089&amp;rss</link>
    <description>AI will be a long-term growth driver for networks, but creating networks to support AI is a conundrum. Following the AI data center boom is a sensible bet that is likely to pay off, but delivering AI networks for enterprises will be more difficult.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2025-09-17T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>In Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa Telco Enterprise</title>
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    <description>This report focuses on sub-Saharan African telcos with regional operational footprint. With growth slated in both the Africa region and enterprise solutions, there is significant interest for operators that possess this distinct overlap.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-09-03T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Cognizant - Global Enterprise</title>
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    <description>Cognizant is sharply focused on developing AI capabilities, particularly in agentic AI (e.g., Agent Foundry). It has improved its financial performance, but it needs to further diversify its business.</description>
    <author>Siow Meng Soh</author>
    <pubDate>2025-09-02T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>TI Sparkle - Wholesale</title>
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    <description>As Sparkle transitions under its new ownership of Retelit and Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, the company continues to collaborate with its global peers to strengthen its subsea connectivity footprint.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>In Focus: European Telco Enterprise Services in Africa and the Middle East</title>
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    <description>Both Orange MEA and Vodacom are improving their networks and launching new services boosting their relationship with businesses and enterprises in the region.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-26T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Orange Business Boils Down DX into Three Digital Experiences Wrapped with Consulting, Ecosystems, and AI</title>
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    <description>Orange Business has been shifting its focus from technology selling to business outcomes around better experiences for employees, customers, and operations. Investing in consulting capabilities and AI is giving it a competitive advantage.</description>
    <author>Siow Meng Soh - Dustin Kehoe</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-22T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <description>Mobily is investing heavily in submarine cables, cloud computing, and roaming, IoT, and wholesale services as it seeks to carve out a niche for itself in the face of competition with Zain and stc.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-20T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Orange Business Analyst Event 2025: Platforms, AI, Sovereign Cloud, and Security to Fuel Growth Ambitions in France, Europe, and MEA</title>
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    <description>Orange Business’s 2025 Insight analyst event set out a compelling future vision for the provider centered on AI and Orange’s ability to provide sovereign AI infrastructure, platforms, and consulting alongside the provider’s NaaS Evolution Platform</description>
    <author>Gary Barton - Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-20T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <description>MTN has shut most non-African operations and has exited from low-performing African markets. It is diversifying from legacy services to B2B and enterprise 5G, though it continues to suffer financially from factors beyond its control.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-12T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>e&amp; - Business Services MENA</title>
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    <description>e&amp; is aggressively expanding both geographically and across the enterprise tech stack and is a key component of the UAE’s ambitions to become an AI-centric society.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-06T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <description>stc is augmenting its current product roster by diversifying its partners and suppliers: in satellite, IoT, networks, AI, and cybersecurity.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-06T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Ericsson and CSPs Formalize Aduna in Strategic Move to Lead Network API Market</title>
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    <description>Aduna's launch as a joint venture between Ericsson and 12 CSPs signals a market milestone in network APIs. The JV enhances innovation potential but poses challenges in agility. Aduna must leverage its ecosystem to lead in a competitive market.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2025-07-31T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Ransomware Spikes as Threat Actors Leverage AI to Launch Campaigns</title>
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    <description>The threat of AI as a cyberweapon is becoming a reality.  Recent research shows ransomware campaigns are soaring, something tech company Akamai attributes in part to the advent of GenAI tools that open the door to even inexperienced bad actors.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
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