Oracle is pushing its cloud computing strategies by investing in its software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions. The giant IT company has made several acquisitions to boost its portfolio over the last few...
Enterprise adoption of cloud computing has been a game-changer for those that know how to take advantage of hosting data in the cloud. Now companies are moving beyond cloud experimentation to broader-based implementations. In addition, the cloud computing market has been impacted by vendor...
German enterprise software giant SAP's revenues were boosted by its key innovation areas: SAP Hana, mobile and cloud computing. When SAP released its full year and fourth quarter results, the company noted that its mobile business contributed more than €220 million (about U.S$293.5 million) to...
Mobile devices will become the biggest users of “big data” and business intelligence/analytics by 2015/16 as users increasingly look for information to help them be more productive.
Big data, cloud, mobile, collaboration and business process management will be the top technologies over the coming 24 months, according to a survey by Software AG. The survey also notes that adoption of these technologies is guiding the software market at an inflection point,...
The rise of cloud computing has led telecommunication service providers to examine their “big data” storage infrastructure with a renewed focus on improving performance and reducing costs.
Carriers should jump into mobile cloud to build their portfolios, allowing them to take over a number of business processes and move them into the cloud. Some of the main opportunities include collaboration and productivity services. In addition, the move into mobile cloud may...
There is an untapped big data gap. Only .5 % of data is currently analyzed by companies to help them make decisions. IDC's latest Digital Universe Study sponsored by EMC showed that in 2012, 23% of the information in the digital universe (or 643 exabytes) would...
ORLANDO, FL—Enriching digital services was one of the main hot topics during the keynote session on the first day of the TM Forum—Management World Americas being held in Orlando this week (check out all pieces and see our videos). “The digital economy is here, and we...
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is looking at how the company could help communications service providers (CSPs) address upcoming challenges and demands. During this week’s HP Discover event in Frankfurt, Germany, HP announced two major products: a solution to help CSPs harness the cloud to create new revenue streams and...
Cognitive computing is not brand new as IBM has been working to create chips that think like the human brain for some time. But during IBM Brazil's December press lunch, the company's local president, Rodrigo Kede, predicted that cognitive computing would be the next...
As cloud computing become more mature and ubiquitous, the mobile cloud emerges as the next hype once it allows you to access data wherever you are and whenever you want them. However, it effects a vast stakeholders range and key questions emerge such as...
Oracle’s latest pair of moves show the company’s efforts to bolster its cloud portfolio. By making a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, a cloud development platform that supports Ruby, PHP and Node, Oracle is pushing its platform-as-a-service strategy. This investment followed the acquisition...
The digital unit of Spanish group Telefónica is expanding its cloud computing services. The company announced the launch of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, named “Instant Servers.” The new service aims to deliver on-demand, high performance cloud computing for developers, digital businesses and large enterprises....
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Ah, Brazil! The legendary sun-drenched beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro are full of young people sunning...
T-Systems, the corporate customer arm of Deutsche Telekom, is betting on cloud services. “In the next few years, companies will be buying through the cloud,” said Juergen Urbanski, vice president for cloud at T-Systems, during the Gartner Symposium in São Paulo.
T-Systems is focusing on...
Mobile and social technologies represent a departure from the information technologies that CIOs are used to, such as ERP and CRM. This change is one of the three fundamental questions IT leaders and CIOs are facing, according to Mark McDonald, Gartner group vice president...
Analytics and business intelligence solutions are back at the top of Latin American CIOs’ list of priorities. Last year, this topic was ranked fifth, but over the previous six years it was the first priority. This aligns with the worldwide trend, since globally it...
"The future of computing is social, mobile, information and cloud, and companies are doing pieces of it correctly today. But where the real advantages to the vendors' side and the consumers' side or the corporate side will be when they start bringing these forces...
Global data center traffic is forecasted to grow fourfold to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016, while cloud traffic is expected to achieve 4.3 zettabytes by 2016, a 44% combined annual growth rate (CAGR), from 683 exabytes of annual traffic in...
Germany giant software company SAP has taken a step further into the cloud computing market when it unveiled its plans for SAP Hana Cloud, a next-generation cloud platform based on in-memory technology. The company also announced the first offerings based on the platform: the general availability of...
Networking, cloud, consumerization and mobility are among top enterprise concerns. The so-called mobile-cloud is set to be the next major architectural transition, as companies everywhere start looking for effective strategies to harness cloud computing benefits, without disrupting their current business models. With an eye to...
How are new technologies impacting the wireless market? During last week’s Futurecom event (check out all stories), RCR Wireless News interviewed Nicholas Carr, an American writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist, who has published books and articles on technology, business and culture.
Carr commented on the impact...
Cloud computing is becoming increasingly attractive for mobile operators. However, unlike pure IT, not all types of network functionalities are suitable for a cloud architecture.
