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Top 10 industrial IoT cloud providers
In our article, Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages, we defined cloud computing and discussed some of the benefits and challenges that come with transitioning from local servers to the cloud. We also took a look at the top 5 industrial IoT companies, excluding...
Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages
Tech companies have been storing data and running programs on local hard drives for decades. But cloud computing, a less expensive, more scalable way of storing and analyzing data, has taken center stage in recent years. It is a key element providing the necessary platform...
ZTE operating revenue up 4% year-over-year
Chinese market accounted for more than 58% of ZTE total revenue in the period
Chinese vendor ZTE recorded operating revenue of 47.76 billion yuan ($7.17 billion) in the first half of 2016, climbing 4.05% over the same period the previous year.
ZTE reported a domestic operating revenue...
Intel acquisition portends importance of artificial intelligence
Cloud computing and big data analytics will usher in artificial intelligence era
This week Intel announced a "definitive agreement" to buy San Diego-based Nervana Systems, which specializes in deep learning, an artificial intelligence technique meant to create machine learning that mirrors human thought.
This is the...
How IoT is lowering the cost of building management systems
Control and savings with building management systems
Building management systems are the backbone of smart buildings. They are the systems put in place to allow building owners and tenants to monitor, maintain and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical functions within a structure. BMS deployment usually...
IBM opens innovation center in Dubai to target cloud, cognitive tech
IBM operates a similar innovation facility in Abu Dhabi
IBM has opened a new industry and innovation center in the United Arab Emirates to offer clients access to advanced cloud and cognitive technologies.
The new facility located in Dubai is the second IBM innovation center in...
Oracle to buy NetSuite for $9.3B
Oracle said today that it will spend more than $9 billion to buy "the very first cloud company." NetSuite, led by a former Oracle marketing executive, says it has been working on cloud technologies for 18 years.
NetSuite reported $741 million in revenue last year....
Analyst Angle: Trend watch – mobile and edge data centers
Service providers are taking their data centers to the edge and transforming data center interconnect along the way
At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, mobile edge computing was front and center in many presentations and company messages. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute...
Huawei revenue up 40% in first half of 2016
Huawei generated revenue of $36.7B during the period
Chinese information and communications technology solutions provider Huawei generated sales of 245.5 billion yuan ($36.7 billion) in the first half of 2016, representing an increase of 40% compared to the same period in 2015, the vendor said in...
Microsoft cloud revenues double as Azure sees more adoption
In reporting financials from its second fiscal quarter, Microsoft got a big boost from its cloud computing business as its Azure platform and service revenue grew 140% year-over-year.
“Businesses everywhere are using the Microsoft Cloud as their digital platform to drive their ambitious transformation agendas,”...
Fujitsu to offer Oracle cloud platform and services in Japan
Fujitsu plans to install the Oracle Cloud platform in its Japanese data centers
Fujitsu and Oracle Corporation Japan signed a strategic alliance to deliver cloud platform and services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries around the world.
Under terms of the agreement, Oracle Cloud application...
ZTE launches cloud RAN for 5G
Cloud RAN solution to be deployed by operators in Q2 2017
SHANGHAI – Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation launched its newest generation radio access network solution – ZTE Cloud RAN – during Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
Designed to reconstruct the wireless network based on the cloud processing platform,...
Vodafone, Ericsson connect German labs in 5G mobile edge PoC
Mobile edge computing is seen as an important part to alleviating network congestion and improving cloud-based applications for both current 4G and future 5G networks. In the approach to 5G commercialization, Ericsson and Vodafone conducted a 5G mobile edge proof of concept, connecting separate...
Cisco agrees to acquire cloud security firm for $293M
In a move intended to bolster its end-to-end cloud security portfolio, Cisco this week agreed to acquire Massachusetts-based security startup CloudLock for $293 million.
CloudLock uses an API-based approach to provide cloud access security broker tech geared toward enterprise-grade security and analytics related to cloud...
Huawei CEO looks to the 'fully cloudified and connected' future
CEO discusses Huawei efforts around network operations and maintenance, cloudification
During an event in Shanghai, Huawei's rotating CEO Eric Xu said in the near-term future, by 2025, technology will have advanced to create mobile networks "beyond our imagination."
Xu was speaking to mobile operator representatives during...
IBM Webinar: Proactive Analytics in era of virtualized networks and cloud
The journey to virtualized networks and cloud services that are chained together in real time will further increase the demand for new tools that can provide highly accurate and automated proactive analytics. Customer experience and network analytics go hand-in-hand for communications service providers (CSPs)...
Looking to boost cloud services, Samsung to acquire Joyent
Samsung today announced it will acquire U.S.-based public and private cloud service provider Joyent to support its "growing lineup of mobile, 'internet of things' and cloud-based software and services," according to the Korean company.
Neither company has revealed any financial details of the acquisition.
Joyent, founded...
Nokia inks agreement with China Mobile
The value of the one-year deal pegged at $1.53B
Nokia and China Mobile signed a one-year agreement designed to allow the Chinese operator to operate a flexible cloud network infrastructure, Nokia said in a statement. The agreement is valued at up to 1.36 billion euros...
What is mobile edge computing?
Bringing intelligence closer to the end user: What is mobile edge computing and why is it important?
Mobile Edge Computing is a network architecture concept that offers application developers and content providers cloud-computing capabilities and an information technology service environment at the edge of the mobile network.
This...
5 very smart city services
In increasingly congested and crowded cities, timely information and communication can be the difference between deadlock and dynamism
Until recently, smart city solutions often seemed more like “slideware” than real services to improve the quality of life of citizens and the productivity of urban businesses....
SoftBank, Alibaba create JV to offer cloud computing services
Cloud computing offer targets Japan with branded Alibaba Cloud
SoftBank and Chinese online and mobile commerce company Alibaba Group formed a joint venture dubbed SB Cloud Corporation to provide cloud computing services in Japan. The company said it will use technologies and solutions from Alibaba...
Sensity aims for China’s smart city market
The smart city market in China is set to soar, with more than 500 cities having announced plans to implement smart city systems.
China’s smart city market is poised for high growth in the coming years, as the Chinese government aims for a 70% urbanization rate...
Multi-operator small cells key to Ip.access plans
If the maturing mobile industry is young in relative terms, then the small cells market is in its teenage years and facing those troublesome growing pains. But, if it’s possible to be a veteran of such a young industry, then Ip.access and its CTO...
Ericsson, China Unicom partner on 5G, IoT and cloud
Ericsson and China Unicom signed an agreement to collaborate on next-generation network technology, including focus on "5G," the "Internet of Things" and cloud. The companies claim the agreement will help accelerate the development of next-generation network standardization and mature network infrastructure in an effort to...