SOFTWARE,FUTURE TECH
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. | August 18, 2022
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., a leading global communications infrastructure platform, today announced the launch of its Application Programming Interface (API) Developer Portal, providing customers with a single online platform to explore, on-board and test live environments with existing API offerings, and stay informed about upcoming developments.
One of the biggest challenges enterprises face when working with multiple vendors is siloed information and data. With Zayo’s API Developer Portal, customers now have a centralized, well-organized, easily navigable repository of information about automating business processes with Zayo.
“We want to empower our customers through every step of their digital transformation journey, and APIs are where that journey comes to life in the form of automation at our customers' fingertips. “With our developer portal, customers now have a live environment where they can easily find the information they need to understand, design and build the best software integration strategy to make an impact and drive business results.”
Leidy Perez, vice president of product, strategic software at Zayo
Currently, Zayo receives hundreds of thousands API calls a month originating from 100+ customers. These requests come through key partners such as Connectbase, ACS Solutions, GeoTel, Upstack, NDA Corp, Masterstream and LMX as well as direct integrations. Benefits of Zayo’s existing API offerings include:
Network Discovery: Zayo’s Building Validation, Location, and Cloud Service Provider APIs enable customers to analyze how Zayo’s network availability powers their business footprint.
Quote and Order: Customers can grow their business capabilities by leveraging Zayo products in its Product Catalog API, generating quotes with the Quote API, and automating the ordering process through the Order API.
Service Management: Customers are able to retrieve critical service information, get support for issues, and keep track of planned outages with the Service Inventory, Ticketing, Ticket Catalog and Maintenance Cases APIs.
In addition to the API developer portal, Zayo has started the roll out of MEF API “Lifecycle Service Orchestration” (LSO) Sonata “Billie” release for quoting and ordering as well as performance monitoring. Further incorporation of MEF standards will enable Zayo to better serve its global carrier and enterprise customers to buy services in a standardized way and to automate MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet.
“Too often, customers must work around their system of record to manage multiple vendors. The swivel-chair of that information back into each system of record causes massive inefficiencies that can impact service delivery time and revenue,” said Stan Hubbard, MEF Principal Analyst. “MEF LSO APIs offer an automated, standardized way for service providers to buy and sell services and maximize return on their investment in interface development. We are excited that MEF LSO Sonata APIs enable Zayo’s innovative API Developer Portal.”
About Zayo Group Holdings, Inc.
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. is the leading global communications infrastructure platform, delivering a range of solutions, including fiber & transport, packet and managed edge services. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone spanning 134,000 miles across North America and Europe. By providing this mission-critical bandwidth to its category-leading customers across the wireless, hyperscale, media, tech and finance industries, Zayo is fueling the innovations that are transforming society.
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AI TECH
FPT Software | May 31, 2022
FPT Software, Vietnam's premier IT firm, has just formed a strategic cooperation with Landing AI, a leader in AI and machine vision in Silicon Valley. Both firms will use their Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise to develop end-to-end visual inspection solutions and drive computer vision adoption across industries.
LandingLens, an enterprise Machine Learning Model Operationalization Management (MLOps) platform that generates, iterates, and operationalizes AI-powered visual inspection solutions, will be promoted by FPT Software. This platform allows businesses to assess inspection procedures, evaluate product conditions, delete defective products, and more using deep learning technology. As a result, users enjoy improved accuracy and streamlined processes, scaling quickly while lowering operational expenses.
"AI is becoming more ubiquitous across industries, offering numerous indisputable benefits to enterprises. Our AI Center solves real-world problems by transforming state-of-the-art AI research into impactful products and services. This partnership with Landing AI is one of the first steps among many initiatives to help us achieve that goal."
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phong, FPT Software Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
According to Mr. Pham Minh Tuan, FPT Software Chief Executive Officer, this strategic alliance extends the company's AI capabilities and benefits its large customer base globally. "We are excited to join hands with Landing AI to deliver world-class visual inspection solutions to our customers across the globe," Tuan mentioned. "Whether it is manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceutical, or food and beverage, all sectors need consistency in their product quality. I am confident that our partnership can help companies in those industries improve their quality control with better data."
FPT Software has been active in upscaling its critical advanced technologies, such as AI, Cloud, Hyper-automation, Blockchain, and so on, with the goal of being among the top 50 digital transformation service providers by 2030. In addition, the corporation has several initiatives in AI, including a cooperation with Mila, the world's largest deep learning institute, to improve its AI skills and the establishment of an AI Center in Binh Dinh, Vietnam. FPT Software hopes to turn this vital territory into the country's first-ever AI valley in the following years.
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SOFTWARE
Atos | June 10, 2022
In the field of quantum computing, Atos and OVHcloud, the European leader in cloud computing, have announced cooperation to make Atos' quantum emulator available "as a service" through OVHcloud offerings. This European premiere will increase the accessibility of quantum emulations technologies, hence boosting the quantum technologies ecosystem. Eventually, research labs, universities, startups, and huge corporations will be able to build quantum software and investigate cutting-edge applications well ahead of the market.
Atos and OVHcloud are committed to contribute to the establishment of a coherent ecosystem suited for the advent of quantum computing technologies by fostering the emergence of tomorrow's champions and boosting their international reach. As a result, both public and private players in this burgeoning ecosystem will have access to a quantum development environment regardless of where they are located, allowing them to develop and experiment "as a service" software bricks ahead of the effective release of the first quantum computers, thanks to the two European leaders.
"By announcing this partnership, OVHcloud confirms its ambition to address and make accessible to the greatest number of people the most advanced technologies. The quantum revolution and the deployment of the first use cases cannot be achieved without the Cloud, whose consumption mode and freedom of use are uniquely able to unite expert communities,"
Thierry Souche, CTO, OVHcloud
This product seeks to replicate the many approaches to quantum processing by simulating a real quantum environment. The Atos QLM delivers unrivaled simulation capabilities, including three independent quantum programming modes, by utilizing the unique capability of Atos' SMP BullSequana X800 server (the gate model, the annealing model and the analog model). As a result, users will be able to imitate circuits up to 38 qubits in double precision and solve quantum annealing issues with up to 5,000+ qubits when using OVHcloud.
OVHcloud will be able to offer quantum processing solutions through Jupyter Notebooks, giving developers easy access, thanks to its decision to use Atos technology as a foundation for future improvements. The Notebook, which is built on free and open standards, will provide varying levels of performance based on the infrastructure and will benefit from the work already done by the OVHcloud Artificial Intelligence teams.
"This partnership is a major milestone in preparing the quantum revolution. Thanks to OVHcloud, we can offer an "as a service" cloud version to democratize and share our quantum emulation technologies more widely to prepare for the future. We are convinced that the future of high-performance computing lies in the hybridization of our technologies, between traditional computing and the integration of co-processors, accelerators, quantum and cloud technologies. Already a pioneer in quantum with the launch of our QLM in 2017, which was the first emulator on the market, this strategic partnership with OVHcloud is an additional step forward in our quantum strategy," said Emmanuel Le Roux, SVP, Director of HPC, AI and Quantum, Atos.
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