The awkwardly named Hadoop market is set to receive the “as-a-service” boost that is sweeping the wireless telecom space, and it could potentially reap significant rewards.
A new report from Allied Market Research predicts the Hadoop-as-a-service market could reach $16.1 billion in sales globally by...
While the markets have reacted to this announcement, both BlackBerry and MobileIron shares have fallen. I think we need look at the cause and effect in both the short and long term to truly understand the overall impact.
Telecom giant AT&T continues to push its software agenda, announcing this week a proof-of-concept cloud technology in partnership with IBM and Applied Communication Sciences.
The proposed concept is expected to cut set up times for cloud-to-cloud connectivity from “days to seconds,” which the companies said...
You can forgive the enterprise space for getting a big head as it seems a day has not gone by in which some new mobile enterprise partnership or solution has not been announced.
The latest ego-boosting move was made by Sprint, which said beginning in...
IBM has been a stalwart in the computing and software industry for as long as there has been a computing and software industry. This leadership has greatly profited the company, but at the same time left it with a stale reputation as an old-school...
Many times when partnerships are announced between two companies at the end of a quarter, I think it’s a diversion – a “mega-corporate” Jedi mind trick.
Nokia Networks and IBM appear to have piqued Vodafone's interest with their mobile edge computing platform, first announced at Mobile World Congress. The Wall Street Journal reports that Vodafone is testing the platform, with help from the Imperial College of London.
The purpose of the...
IBM and Apple have announced a major global collaboration for enterprise mobility that encompasses IBM's offerings in big data and analytics, Apple's mobile devices, and a host of new native iPhone and iPad applications custom-built for specific verticals. The two companies called the IBM MobileFirst...
IBM announced a collaborative effort with Chinese universities to nurture skills in big data analytics through software donations worth $100 million, plus additional support to increase the number of skilled workers in the field.
This follows IBM earlier this year signing a memorandum of...
Within six years, the number of connected devices that are NOT smartphones, tablets or PCs will skyrocket to 26 billion, according to Gartner. The means that the Internet of Things will include more than three times as many devices as the traditional mobile ecosystem....
Toyota selected IBM to design and build a new application development platform for in-car services as part of its T-Connect telematics service.
The two companies will work together on on-board devices and applications for the Toyota Open Vehicle Architecture, with the aim of developing an...
Most businesses are not prepared for the proliferation of cloud, analytics, mobile devices and social media, according to a study from IBM.
IBM released preliminary findings from the study, which looked at 750 global organizations, at its IBM Edge2014 conference last week. The study, based...
It is important to examine the factors that are making OpenStack the "next big thing" for telcos, as well as what the future will hold for the platform and its supporters.
IBM completed its acquisition of cloud software platform company Silverpop, which has a cloud-based platform for personalizing customer engagement. The move extends IBM's software-as-a-service offerings for marketing automation for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing.
Atlanta-based Silverpop is privately held and terms of the deal were...
LAS VEGAS – As communications service providers fight to maintain current customers and lure new customers from rivals through improved services and innovative offers, they also face competition from over-the-top providers. This is a complex environment for CSPs as they try to learn what...
LAS VEGAS – The increased adoption of corporate mobile solutions impacts the telecommunications industry as they typically require more bandwidth and network performance improvements. Therefore, communications service providers need to understand what companies are doing (or planning to deploy) in order to anticipate traffic...
LAS VEGAS — Cloud and mobile are key growth pillars for IBM. During the opening sessions of this week’s Impact event, held in Las Vegas, IBM executives set a scenario in which enterprises of all industries are going through a disruptive moment in their...
Five major players in telecom and industry are joining forces to accelerate interoperability in the development of the Internet of Things through industrial Internet applications.
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have formed the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which is an open membership, not-for-profit group...
AirWatch CEO John Marshall did not look like a man who had just spent four days at a trade show when he met with RCR Wireless News at the close of the recent Mobile World Congress 2014 event. Marshall is clearly energized by his...
Huawei and NSN have signed a cross-licensing agreement for OSS (Operations Systems Support), following up on the plan the two infrastructure giants announced last spring. Ericsson is also expected to cross license its OSS system with Huawei and NSN, according to a memorandum of...
Broadcom targets low-cost LTE smartphone market
Carriers and device makers are increasingly focused on low-cost smartphones, and chipmakers are ready to give them what they want. Today Broadcom unveiled two new mobile platforms aimed at the sub-$300 LTE smartphone market. The solution set features a...
Verizon Wireless taps Altair Semiconductor: Verizon Wireless' first carrier-branded tablet will use an LTE-only modem from Altair to connect to the carrier's network. Altair's FourGee-3100/6202 chipset is a single-mode LTE chipset, meaning that Verizon Wireless' Ellipsis 7 tablet will only connect to the carrier's...
Telecom operators around the world are using analytics tools for two major reasons: to become more efficient in their operations; and using analytics in order to manage the cost element and to grow revenue, which is the most exciting part of it. This has...
