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2020 has been a year of challenge and change for the world. The global pandemic has accelerated the pace of technological change for businesses around the world, leading to a shift in working patterns and prompting the move to a more virtual workforce. For Console Connect, it has been a year of significant growth.

APIs represent the new frontier for CTOs - offering limitless potential to orchestrate and automate applications, services and networks. In our recent webinar, PCCW Global’s CTO Paul Gampe and AVP of New Technologies Shahar Steiff looked at some of the opportunities and challenges that APIs are presenting for CTOs with the automation of networks. Here we share three of their top tips.

In the first of our new technical blogs, Solution Architect Cameron Parry explains how network and cloud architects can effectively use Console Connect within their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. More than 20 years ago, Peter Deutsch and James Gosling outlined the eight fallacies of distributed computing.

2020 has been a significant year for Africa’s cloud and data centre ecosystem. Considerable new investment is going into carrier-neutral data centres across Sub-Saharan Africa and slowly but surely the adoption of cloud services is gathering pace. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led many businesses to accelerate their adoption of cloud services in order to help them operate during these difficult times.

The Console Connect ecosystem is rapidly expanding. To help you keep up-to-speed, each month we are bringing you updates on all our latest data centre, cloud and SaaS interconnect locations, as well as introducing you to some of our newest ecosystem partners. Now, we’ve extended your reach even further! In the last month, we have on-boarded new data centres, cloud locations and new SaaS partners!

When it comes to selecting a cloud provider, today’s enterprises have more choice than ever before. That’s why Console Connect is continuing to expand our cloud partner ecosystem and enable our users to directly connect with more cloud providers worldwide We'd like to take a moment to introduce the latest cloud provider to join our ecosystem… Anexia.

2020 has seen a real acceleration in the adoption of new digital business models. At Capacity Europe last week, PCCW Global’s VP of Digital Innovation Marketing, Neil Templeton, took to the virtual stage to explain how network automation is helping businesses embrace digital transformation. “Since March and the onset of COVID 19, we’ve seen an accelerated pace of change with businesses and their move to digital transformation.

Latin America’s cloud ecosystem stands on the brink of change. Traditionally, businesses in the region have relied on access to cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the US. But the acceleration of cloud adoption in Latin American markets, such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, is attracting the attention of hyper-scale cloud providers and leading to new investment in data centres.