With 170,000 employees, $46B in 2014 revenue and operations in 170 countries, Huawei’s ICT transformation strategy is based upon providing enterprise, carriers and developers with open, yet integrated, end-to-end network, cloud computing, big data and developer-centric platform solutions.
Dressed casually in a black Huawei Developers...
Over the past few years, the “bring-your-own-device” trend has become increasingly popular – providing opportunities for employees to use their mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or laptops to solve business problems. In most companies, these devices operate via a wireless network. According to...
Dell is a major HP competitor in the enterprise market; HP is approaching a split that will spin-off HP Enterprise as standalone company
Dell has agreed to buy EMC in what could be the biggest tech takeover in history. The size of the buyout will...
Tim Cook spoke at the BoxWorks conference, which wraps up today
Apple has proved a game-changer in the consumer device market; in fact, the Cupertino, Calif.-based powerhouse tallied sales of 13 million iPhone 6s and 6s Plus devices in the three days following the Sept....
Just 10 years ago, enterprise technology was tied to a desktop or workstation, iPhones did not exist. Social collaboration meant instant messaging. Can you imagine a world today without mobile connectivity? Without the instantaneous access to information, or the inclusive social nature of mobile...
TCS claims NFV will produce greater agility, lower operating costs
Telecom equipment and service vendors continue to heed the call of virtualization, adopting software-defined networking, network functions virtualization and cloud technologies into their product offerings.
The latest is TeleCommunication Systems, which said by the end of...
AT&T BYOD move allows enterprises to purchase data for employees
Looking to tap into the growing “bring-your-own-device” move at enterprises, AT&T Mobility launched its Work Data Rate Plans that allow enterprises to add data to an employee’s personal account.
AT&T said the option also allows for...
SDN tapped to power WAN service marketed by Verizon and Cisco
Verizon Communications continues to integrate software solutions into its platform, announcing the launch of a software-defined WAN service using Cisco Systems’ Intelligent WAN technology and targeting enterprise customers.
Verizon said the platform supports a better user...
In this episode I'm talking to John Davis, senior Web developer/tech lead at Jewelry Television's e-commerce department. He's also worked on AI and game code. John talks about Jewelry TV's use of e-commerce both online and on mobile. As a TV channel which began before...
How to manage mobility in a complex mobile world
Out of the gate, the Apple Watch was criticized as not actually doing much other than serving as a fashion accessory with some nifty configurations. Consumers and businesses alike felt that there weren’t that many practical...
What is the real promise of mobility in the enterprise? Is it the ability to read and respond to e-mails on the road? To dial into a conference call? To work from home?
These are all productivity enhancements, to be sure. But a key facet...
More millennials enter the consumer marketplace each year and their effect is drastically influencing a multitude of industries. Millennial consumers are mobile driven and hate not being able to engage with businesses on their terms. With the increased adoption of mobile devices, there has...
As businesses struggle with “bring-your-own-device,” managing employee-issued smartphones and tablets, and experience continuing pressure to simplify and manage operational expenses, choosing the right plan for corporate-issued devices and managing those devices is critical. As such, business decision-makers and IT managers continue to rely on...
Sprint claims MaaS platform streamlines mobile management
Sprint furthered its attempt to lure enterprises with the launch of its “Mobility-as-a-Service” offer that it claims streamlines the management of multiline accounts for customers.
Businesses with at least 15 lines of service are eligible to share a bucket...
Small cells in transition to opex-based operations
As more people use their mobile devices in the workplace, there is an opportunity for the mobile operators to offer cloud and mobile managed services to enterprise IT to ease the management of corporate and mobile solutions as...
Today’s customer-experience landscape is fiercely competitive and quite complex, requiring businesses to address the challenges by investing in a digital-experience strategy. Providing a positive digital experience requires a visually pleasing interface, driving engagement and cohesion across all channels. The explosion of smartphones, tablets, connected...
Comverse touts digital messaging platform benefits of $245M deal
Comverse announced plans to acquire privately held Acision for approximately $245 million in a move to bolster its digital services business. U.K.-based Acision provides mobile messaging and engagement services, and is used by a number of...
For enterprises in all industries, reliable wireless local area network connectivity is table stakes. It’s the backbone that delivers true mobility and, ultimately, worker productivity. But does your WLAN really drive productivity? That’s the million-dollar question. Initial WLAN investments were designed to accommodate growing mobility...
No Jitter’s recent research sheds some light on Skype’s initiative into the business communication arena, known as Skype for Business, previously Microsoft Lync. The study reveals that 90% of Skype for Business adopters voted it as a better solution than their traditional PBX systems.
The...
Best practices for using data to support app deployment and user adoption
Businesses are launching more enterprise applications than ever before. In fact, nearly half of enterprises have already deployed between one and 10 mobile apps to their employees according to a recent...
When it comes to today’s marketplaces, there’s no doubt we’re operating in a buyers’ market. Consumers can buy anything almost instantly, from computer software through to the latest movies. We can easily find the information we need, compare and evaluate it immediately before purchasing...
After a steady stream of significant investments in both labor and dollars as well as a series of successful trials, network function virtualization has proven its value to service providers. NFV brings virtualization in service providers’ back-end data centers, effectively converging IT and network...
Orchestrate brings DaaS capabilities to CenturyLink Cloud
Regional telecommunications provider CenturyLink bolstered its cloud platform with the acquisition of Orchestrate, which focuses on managed database services designed for rapid application development. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
CenturyLink said the deal will enhance its...
Infonetics report found 72% of NA-based enterprises plan LAN SDN networks
A vast majority of North America-based enterprises plan to deploy live campus local area network software-defined networking products by the end of 2017, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.
The report tapped into...
