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New facility combines virtual platforms, cloud solutions to connect 20,000 engineers With an eye on streamlining research and development around "5G" mobile networks, Ericsson this week announced the opening of a new Global ICT Center in Roserberg, Sweden. The facility is the second Global ICT Center...

The global data center market is expected to grow into a $22.73 billion business, according to research firm Research and Markets. The study predicts between 2015 and 2019, the industry will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.3%. Migration to cloud technologies...

Cloud services include contextual marketing, mobile commerce ItsOn, which provides cloud automation and virtualization services, announced an agreement with the biggest operator in Africa aimed at driving revenue through personalized content and service delivery. MTN Group picked ItsOn technology to help launch new services geared toward...

Microsoft CEO: A 'public cloud for the public good' Hardware and software giant Microsoft plans to donate $1 billion in cloud computing resources and services to nonprofits, CEO Satya Nadella said in a company blog post. From the post: "We will donate $1 billion in cloud...

Stagnant growth in IT infrastructure investment to drive data center colocation market Information technology infrastructure is expensive. No matter how much data continues to transition to the cloud, it still needs a place to live in the analog world. With spending on IT infrastructure expected...

In many modern enterprises, busy employees use a mixture of internal, private cloud solutions and software platforms, while also casually using public cloud and software platforms. This internal use of systems not necessarily designed and built in-house is called shadow IT, and it can be...

The four-year cloud contracts have a total value of more than $26 million U.K. telecommunications group BT won two contracts with the European Commission for the provisioning of public and private cloud services across 52 major European institutions, agencies and bodies. Some of the agencies included...

Purchased Austin-based StackEngine; growth driven by cloud sales IT giant Oracle, which provides everything from data center operation to cloud applications, is investing heavily in cloud computing with the recent acquisition of Austin, Texas-based StackEngine, as well as the unveiling of plans to build a...

Cloud providers Amazon.com, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are driving demand for white box servers The explosion in demand for streaming video content – to both homes and mobile devices – has set the stage for cloud-based content delivery, supported by constantly expanding server-packed data centers. In...

Establishing leadership positions in IP networks, cloud, BSS/OSS, TV & media and IoT industry and society are central to Ericsson's overall strategy, according to Rima Qureshi, chief strategy officer for Ericsson, who provided Jeff Mucci from RCR Wireless News with an update on Ericsson's 2015...

As more enterprises move their applications to the cloud, an opportunity for increased monitoring and visibility services is opening up at the intersection of mobility and cloud. Allot Communications announced today that it is enabling multi-tenant cloud optimization for enterprise, with telecom operator Swisscom. The platform...

Are IoT standards keeping up with IoT innovation?  IEEE IoT standards body is hard at work to deliver IoT P2413 interoperability standards framework by 2017 Watch IoT Innovation interview with Oleg Logvinov - Chair of the IEEE P2413 working group, IEEE Internet Initiative. He is also director, special assignments,...

With an eye on scaling its "Internet of Things" service offerings, Canadian provider Telus partnered with Affirmed Networks to deploy a cloud-based platform optimized for IoT workloads. Specifically, Affirmed Networks will provide Telus with its Mobile Content Cloud solution, which works with 2G, 3G and...

Montana officials, with an eye on economic development, have been working with Google and Facebook to convince the technology giants to build data centers in the Western state. According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, leaders of the Bozeman-based Northern Rocky Mountain Development District visited Google...

Enterprises want to focus on business value, not IT infrastructure Google is one of the largest server manufacturers in the world and among the four big players in the cloud-computing/datacenter space. In a recent presentation, Craig Box, global lead for Google Compute go-to-market, gave a...

NuVu video subscription on-demand service set to launch in Q1 2016 on Airtel Nigeria network Continuing its aggressive move into the television content delivery space, Ericsson this week announced a new streaming video on-demand service called NuVu, set to become available next year for some...

Forward-looking telecom providers are undertaking cloud mitigation as the next major evolution in networks and services. For good reason: being untethered from purpose-built hardware offers the tantalizing prospect of more efficient, responsive and elastic networks. This has prompted most operators to either commit to,...

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...

Chinese equipment vendor Huawei to invest $1 billion in ICT developers cloud, API and IoT enablement platform Huawei Internet Plus-related initiatives were showcased at the Huawei Developers Congress (#HDC2015) held in Shenzhen, China, on Oct. 18-19. During the conference, Huawei outlined a plan to invest $1...

The African continent is set for significant cloud adoption, according to a new study from SAP and IDG, with similar hopes and concerns about the technologies as more established technology centers – and some concerns and potential advantages unique to the region. Mobility is a significant driver...

Western Digital, which sells digital storage solutions among other products, announced it will buy SanDisk for $19 billion. The boards of directors of both companies have voted to approve the deal. In materials provided to investors, Western Digital said the acquisition is part of a...

AUSTIN, Texas – Focused on enabling business transformation and enterprise agility, Dell and Microsoft announced an integrated hybrid cloud solution during Dell World. More specifically, modular Dell infrastructure will include Microsoft Cloud Platform System software and Azure services. The hybrid cloud configuration allows an enterprise...

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...

Both parties will promote global standardization for 5G technology The European Union and China have signed an agreement for the future development of "5G" networks. The deal was inked during the EU-China High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue in Beijing. Under the terms of the agreement,...