UK’s video game market surges as gaming fans joined by millions of newbies

Recent reports have stated that the UK videogames market hit a record £7 billion last year as lockdown fuelled a boom in the popularity of mobile games, consoles, and virtual reality headsets. The gaming industry has proved to be a coronavirus winner, with millions of consumers looking for relief from indoors. The gaming fans have been joined by millions of newbies seeking entertainment, which has given rise to an unprecedented 30 percent year-on-year increase.

The figures confirm just how valuable games proved to be stress buster across the country during the lockdown. Gaming has become the most pivotal part of UK people's life. The most significant year in UK gaming history was sparked during this fortunate time when Nintendo's family-friendly phenomenon was launched as it crossed on March when the nation went to its first lockdown.

It became the top seller during the first lockdown, outpacing the hardcore gamer favorites such as Call of Duty, Animal Crossing had helped fuel a 24 percent increase in the digital game sales for consoles to  £1.7bn last year. Total digital sales, including mobiles and PCs, have surged significantly and had overall sales of games software, including boxed games.

 

 

Turnkey Consulting collaborates with Legion star to expand its organic reach in the USA

Turnkey Consulting, a UK-based risk management consultancy firm, is all set to expand its US footprint through a joint venture deal with Chicago-based IT consultancy firm Legion Star, focusing on enterprise resource management and risk management. Legion Star provides consulting services in vivid sectors, including management, cloud, and enterprise resource planning (ERP). The platform enables its clients to plan, deploy, and manage cloud access security in different enterprises and organizations.

In partnership with Legion Star, Turnkey Consulting will be aiming to provide managed services and ERP application security, as Legion Star is a pioneer in this sector as it has completed more than 100 implementations. This agreement will also predominantly expand identity and access management (IAM), integrated risk management (IRM), and security services to the clients in the US market.

Both the firms will be looking to improve and stabilize their operations in the US portion. Both the companies will work together to drive business in North America and offer new services to clients globally. Besides facilitating mutual client introductions, the joint venture partners will also collaborate on joint marketing initiatives that include a lead generation and acquisition campaign.

 

 

Nokia’s trio of deals with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to expand its cloud reach

Nokia Corporation, Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer Electronics Company, struck a trio of deals with the market's largest hyperscale firms, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud. This deal will help Nokia move ahead with the 5G, radio access network (RAN), and edge markets. It also will further enable the firm to bring in innovative technologies and improve its organic growth.

Nokia's deal with AWS primarily focuses on research and development on cloud RAN and opens RAN technologies, which will enable the firm to concentrate on customer-focused 5G platforms. Nokia has stated that it will combine RAN and edge work with AWS's most advanced Outposts platform to mainly target enterprises and target service providers. It will also leverage AWS services, including Outposts, Local Zones, and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

With Microsoft, Nokia will be aiming to develop 4G LTE and %G private wireless services that target the enterprise space. It will combine with Microsoft's multi-access edge cloud platform and Azure to create a better 5G platform. The Google Cloud deal combines Nokia's RAN and cloud platforms with edge computing systems that predominantly focus on integrating Nokia's 5G virtual distributed units and centralized virtual unit. Nokia will also test its AirFrame Open Edge hardware with Anthos.

 

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The Silicon Review is a leading media service provider. We provide a unique experience with vibrant story-telling and design of the brand to promote your brand idea, brand positioning, and brand personality.

 

We work with enterprise-level clients in information technology, business services, financial services, healthcare & medical, legal, manufacturing, and various other industries.

 

We are on a mission to transform the way the world defines Brand Networking. In the age of countless applications and scattered data, our platform is the central point to build a long-term association with each other. Our powerful technology allows our clients to reach out to other B2B customers across all our verticals, and find exactly what they look for.

 

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AWS launches new lower-cost storage classes for elastic file system

 

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), in a recent announcement, has stated that it will be unleashing the all-new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes that will reduce the storage costs by almost 47 percent when compared to the already existing Amazon EFS storage classes. The firm also added that the new class of storage classes would deliver the same features and benefits. The One Zone storage classes redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ).

This new storage facility offered by AWS is ideal for customers who want cost-optimized file storage options managing workloads and applications that do not require any durability offered by regional Amazon EFS storage classes that store data across multiple geographically separated AZs. There are no minimum commitments or up-front fees. And customers have to pay only the amount of file system storage used. With One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS, customers will now choose a serverless yet fully managed file system that runs in a single AZ. It also cost lesser than the currently available storage systems. It allows customers to achieve a blended storage price while also offering higher and better availability than the traditional self-managed file systems. It also delivers the elasticity and durability benefits of Amazon EFS standard access.