Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
SAP reported that its cloud business grew 32% during the second quarter and said that it is the fastest-growing enterprise cloud company "at scale," which it considers to be an annual cloud revenue run rate of more than $1.3 billion (roughly a billion Euros).
SAP's annual revenue...
Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG are expanding their mutual offerings for the mobile workforce and deepening the overall interoperability in their product portfolios.
The two companies have a long-standing partnership, but are expanding it in three areas: cloud, mobility, and analytics.
Microsoft and SAP said they would offer...
Cisco says the sky's the limit for the billion dollar cloud services business it announced today. The networking equipment giant says it will build "a network of clouds" along with a set of partners, including Telstra and Ingram Micro. Cisco says it plans to...
AT&T and data center company Equinix announced an alliance that seeks to expand adoption of cloud services by offering secure cloud access via AT&T's virtual private networks (VPNs), instead of the public Internet.
AT&T's NetBond offering will be embedded in select Equinix data centers in...
Given the breakneck pace at which the "Internet of things" is evolving, it won’t be long before our smartphones are ordering our appliances to turn on, chill the Chardonnay and simmer the soup, all before we get home from the office. Arrayent, which offers...
Verizon Enterprise Solutions is using F5 Networks' solutions for network traffic and security management in its new Verizon Cloud.
F5's Big-IP product suite has been embedded in Verizon Cloud Compute, the company's new infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, which is currently accepting beta customers. Big-IP Global Traffic...
Highlighting an evolving ecosystem in vehicle connectivity, Airbiquity Inc. has been chosen by Nissan Motor Co. as a provider for a global platform enabling smartphone integration in vehicles.
NissanConnect Apps service will allow vehicle users to access their smartphone applications via the vehicle controls --...
Alcatel-Lucent continues to beat the drum for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), with the creation of an open ecosystem for service providers, developers and vendors interested in adopting NFV.
The CloudBand Ecosystem Program was initially rolled out to a limited group of...
Recent shifts in how companies are buying customer relationship management software illustrate the speed with which mobile apps are changing the enterprise IT landscape. Increasingly, many enterprises see mobile- and cloud-based CRM apps playing a
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
Brazil is a vast country, occupying more than 8.5 million square kilometers—and dominating the map of South America. Brazil’s sheer...
Third-generation and "4G" wireless networks are facing a severe capacity crunch caused by massive data demand created by smart phones and tablet devices. Deployment of macrocells will not solve the problem since most of the demand is generated indoors. Service providers are moving towards heterogeneous solutions...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
A new trinity is on the rise: Mobility, cloud computing and social media are set to become inextricably linked over...
The combination of mobile, cloud, social, big data and the "Internet of things" is driving company efforts from many different industries, and telecom operators are in a good position to take advantage of these trends, according to Mike Riegel, IBM VP for mobile and WebSphere...
Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic. Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even as service providers move to converge infrastructure and adopt more flexible cloud-based approaches. In this webinar, we'll share some of...
Software is becoming a key differentiator for mobile devices and networks, and companies throughout the wireless ecosystem are competing for software talent. Carriers, device manufacturers, chip makers, and test and measurement companies all need software engineers, as do communications and telecom software companies. Telecom...
Uruguay is the latest Latin American country to move forward with LTE. After Colombia announced it had set an LTE auction date for June 26, Uruguay's Regulatory Unit of Communications Services (URSEC) released that América Móvil's Claro and Telefónica’s Movistar have paid a total of...
Cloud computing is gaining momentum, and telecom operators are battling for cloud computing customers. Carriers face fierce competition in this emerging market and many have to solve several issues before becoming strong competitors.
Almost all data center and infrastructure providers have included some kind of cloud service...
The global market for unified communications as-a-service is expected to grow from $2.52 billion in 2013 to $7.62 billion by 2018, at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 24.8%.
A recent study conducted by MarketsandMarkets shows that UCaaS will be one of the key enabling...
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...
Anite today announced the validation of the first Global Certification Forum (GCF) TD-LTE/TD-SCDMA Inter-Radio Access Technology (Inter-RAT) test cases. The company said that it now supports all of the GCF LTE protocol test requirements for TD-LTE mobile operators ahead of their launches. TD-LTE is...
The era for mobile business intelligence (BI) solutions has arrived, or at least according to a new report from Ovum. According to the analytics firm, the arrival of high-performance mobile devices and the evolution of robust data-carrying infrastructure have allowed the proliferation of mobile...
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,...
