Salesforce
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                    Sinch is now a strategic supplier for Salesforce’s global SMS delivery and provides enterprise-grade messaging solutions for its global customer base.
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                    Nothing to do with Covid, but virtualisation of telecoms networks means that telcos are no longer locked in to a few hardware vendors. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the march of SDN and NFV
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                    The industry’s move to open standards accelerated today with the decision by Ericsson, Huawei, NTT and Salesforce to join the TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture project.
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                    Salesforce and digital experience agency Isobar have joined forces with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help automate the management of funding including Covid-19 vaccine development programmes.
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                    Gavin Patterson, who was ousted as CEO of BT last year, is to be chairman of Salesforce’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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                    Global leading network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider Megaport and Linxdatacenter have partnered to offer direct access to leading cloud service providers (CSPs).
 
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            Spending on cloud infrastructure is growing at 45% a year, but the hyperscale providers Microsoft, Google and Alibaba are growing even faster.
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            Digital Realty has announced the availability of direct, private access to Salesforce via Digital Realty Service Exchange in 15 metro areas worldwide.