NEC, AWS Expand Collaboration in the Global 5G and Digital Government Spaces

The Japanese IT Multinational conglomerate NEC has announced the expansion of its collaboration with AWS in the areas of global 5G and digital government.

The two behemoths had announced a corporate-level strategic collaboration agreement in November 2020. Now, NEC will expand on this collaboration.

"NEC is pleased to announce the expansion of its strategic collaboration with AWS. Last year, NEC announced this global collaboration as the first of its kind between AWS and a Japanese company. It has been a great year, seeing many successes in the areas of government, modernization and in the skill enhancement of NEC engineers. NEC is now expanding the collaboration with AWS in the areas of global 5G, digital government and in enhanced hybrid cloud offerings. With the strong global support from AWS, NEC will help drive digital transformation in the government sector and across industries as part of orchestrating a brighter world," said Toshifumi Yoshizaki, Executive Vice President at NEC Corporation.

Through this renewed collaboration, NEC will look to develop an end-to-end 5G offering and provide it globally by combining NEC's high performance cloud-native open 5G mobile core, OSS/BSS solutions, local 5G use cases etc., and AWS cloud and edge solutions. This effort will also try to accelerate the cloudification of network workloads and enhance digital transformation for enterprises by deploying 5G-based infrastructure and application at the network edge.

NEC will also strengthen its relation with AWS to develop and provide a range of offerings to accelerate the digital transformation for government activities in Japan.

 

eCloudvalley Achieves AWS Machine Learning Competency

eCloudvalley Technology has become the very first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consulting Partner from ASEAN to achieve the AWS Machine Learning Competency status. This means that eCloudvalley Technology is AWS certified when it comes to offering a range of services and technologies to help businesses create intelligent solutions, from enabling data science workflows to enhancing applications with ML.

Achieving AWS Machine Learning Competency will help eCloudvalley serve a growing market in the Asia Pacific region looking to automate operations. The company has so far helped mobile advertising solutions and content developer PureTech Global to leverage AI to optimize their billing revenue by implementing a time-series forecasting model using Amazon Forecast, a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts, to predict the optimal times for sending renewal notices for each of PureTech’s applications. “We have benefited from the support received from AWS and eCloudvalley, and continue to benefit from AWS’s advanced cloud capabilities like machine learning,” said John Lim, Chief Technology Officer, PureTech Global.

“We are delighted that eCloudvalley is the first AWS Consulting partner in ASEAN to achieve this competency. We look forward to innovating together and continuing to serve our customers in Southeast Asia with innovative and validated AWS Partner technology and consulting offerings,” said Conor McNamara, Managing Director, AWS ASEAN.