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Public or private? CloudHealth by VMware works with both Cloud environments
Elevated decisions Financial institutions, with a timely nudge from COVID-19, have woken up to the transformational potential of the Cloud. We spoke to Marcus Chambers, VP of Sales for EMEA at CloudHealth by VMware, about the shifting balance between private and public Cloud, and the importance of customer-centricity You have most likely seen software and digital infrastructure provider VMware in the headlines recently. And not in relation to financial services. The firm has just finished work on the UK government’s much-publicised contract-tracing app for COVID-19. At the beginning of March, VMware Pivotal Labs partnered with NHSX, the technology innovation arm of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), to share insights into how software can be used to track
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the spread of the COVID-19 virus. In less than 24 hours, VMware had presented a proof of concept using low-energy Bluetooth technology on smartphones to detect users’ proximity. After further research, this led to NHSX spearheading a contact-tracing app to deliver on the crucial objective of identifying and notifying people who had been in contact with someone with the virus, while also capturing anonymised data to improve the scientific community’s understanding of how it spreads.
It’s also been announced in recent weeks that VMware is working closely with Intel on the accelerated rollout of 5G networks across the world, with the addition of an integrated software platform for virtualised radio access networks (VRAN). The two companies are teaming up to collaborate on the software platform to assist communications service providers (CSPs) with future 5G networks across a virtualised infrastructure. VMware is helping the world to understand COVID-19 while also ensuring www.fintech.finance