Looking to expand revenues, Brazilian carrier Oi announced its cloud strategy dubbed "Oi Smart Cloud." The offering is designed to complement the carrier's enterprise portfolio, which currently includes fixed and mobile telephony, connectivity and IT solutions.
“Within three years, we expect to double data...
Citing plans to expand its operations in mobile application development, integration, security and management, IBM (IBM) reported a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Israeli-based Worklight, a provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets.
Financial terms of the proposed deal were not disclosed, though the...
The concerns of healthcare IT executives trying to meet the demands of supporting consumer-grade computing devices are growing. A study -- conducted by BizTechReports and published as a white paper by Panasonic (download here)-- found major operational issues for media tablets in healthcare, with...
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Avaya unveiled a new version of its unified communications solution targeting small- and mid-sized enterprises that includes new capabilities for SME, including mobile collaboration and productivity.
Avaya noted that among the targets for the IP Office 8.0 product is a focus on emerging...
Lime, the Caribbean unit of Cable & Wireless Communications, is soliciting more business from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Caribbean by extending its suite of cloud-based services, the company said January 18.
Lime introduced cloud-based services when it launched its product named Lime...
German software developer SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its intention to acquire Datango AG, a German provider of workforce performance support software. The transaction, scheduled to close during the first quarter of 2012, is subject to the usual regulatory approvals. The companies did...
IDC Latin America followed the company's global predictions in forecasting that 2012 will be the year of mobile and cloud platform wars as IT vendors vie for leadership while the industry redefines itself. The market intelligence firm also added the consumerization of IT, which...
Embracing enterprise-focused services has been a key strategy for several telecom operators around the globe. A recent cloud services study published by market research firm Infonetics Research shows that 70% of respondent operators are investing in cloud services in anticipation of demand.
Infonetics analysts interviewed...
Global ICT spending growth in 2012 is forecast to be lower than previously expected. Gartner Inc is now predicting growth of 3.7% this year. The firm's previous forecast for the 2012 growth rate was 4.6%, and the growth rate for 2011 was 6.9%. Gartner...
It has been more than a year since Orange Business Services decided on a new go-to market strategy. The company, which is a unit of France Telecom, is looking to increase its service’s share. The French enterprise is aiming to become a leader in...
With technology having become ubiquitous, consumerized, cheaper and more equally available to all, the second half of the Information Age will be focused on the exploitation of technology and the information it processes. During this period, the great fortunes are being made by companies...
Mexican electric power utility company Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is conducting a smart grid project to use wireless data radios to monitor and control crucial electric power applications. After CFE selected Elster Group’s EnergyAxis smart grid solution in April to power the utility’s...
Over the next few years, the number of online shoppers in Latin America is expected to grow 20% a year, and business-to-consumer e-commerce revenue is expected to increase to U.S. $30 billion by 2013, according to a survey by German research firm yStats.com.
Brazil dominates...
Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, which means a 66% compound annual growth rate, according to Cisco's Global Cloud Index (2010 – 2015) report.
In conjunction with the report, Cisco also...
Consumerization, cloud computing, consumer and enterprise social networks, mobile application, the shifting of sources of supply from Asia to the Americas, big data and cybercrime are some of the trends among research and advisory firm Gartner’s top predictions for IT organizations and users for...
The first South American global cloud computing platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, was launched today in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the eighth geographic region worldwide in which the company has deployed its platform to offer suite of infrastructure Web...
Global enterprises are shifting to mobile-only communications more rapidly than expected, as well as adopting unified communications services more broadly, notes the 2011 BroadSoft Mobile Enterprise of the Future survey. This trend could be an opportunity for mobile network operators, because enterprises believe their MNO is better positioned to deliver services such as video calling and conferencing, Web conferencing, voice mail, presence management and instant messaging than fixed-line providers like Microsoft, Google or IBM.
Although IT consumerization is a relatively new phenomenon, it cannot be ignored by chief information officers. IBM is taking steps to address enterprise-class requirements with a series of new mobile apps.
The Brazilian unit of Spain’s Telefónica aims to be the biggest and best telecom provider in Brazil -- and that consumers recognize it as such. That might not be easy, because Telefónica Brazil faced serious problems with its Internet broadband service Speed in 2008, and it took some time to recover from the brand damage. However, the current scenario is brighter: Little more than one year after the mobile carrier Vivo’s acquisition, all Telefónica’s products will be rebranded under the Vivo name.
Although contact center solutions represent the biggest part of Avaya’s revenues, the company aims to be recognized beyond that business, as an important player of the multibillion-dollar enterprise market for communication tools.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has acquired Hiflex Software GmbH, a privately held global software solutions provider specializing in Web-to-print and management information systems solutions for printing services. HP said the acquisition will help it break the traditional barriers of how and where business customers print.
While chief information officers are figuring out what -- and no longer when -- they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.
