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The reaction of central IT functions and CIOs to BYOD has been, and remains, mixed Enterprises are facing a challenge from employees who want to use personal devices to access corporate data. Perceived...
View ArticleRural Brazil: Healthcare to go
Fabio Tozzi Twenty years ago the Brazilian Government decreed that health services should be available to all of the country’s inhabitants. In Southern Brazil, the wealthier, more developed and heavily...
View ArticleOn the up: Changing lives in Brazil
Children in their connected classroom in the village of Suruacá Just over ten years ago I went backpacking in Brazil for a month with some friends. We arrived in Rio de Janeiro, one of the world’s...
View ArticleNEC and Portugal Telecom collaborate on SDN
NEC and Portugal Telecom team up for SDN Japanese vendor NEC has established a partnership with Portuguese incumbent operator Portugal Telecom that will see the two firms collaborate on SDN (software...
View ArticleTelco Cloud: The Trojan Buffalo
Are you looking at my customer base? At Telco Cloud World Forum this week, one speaker likened operators to buffalo that have grazed their feeding grounds to dust and are now in need of pastures new....
View ArticleTelco Cloud: The Trojan Buffalo
At Telco Cloud World Forum this week, one speaker likened operators to buffalo that have grazed their feeding grounds to dust and are now in need of pastures new. The telco as buffalo is an appealing...
View ArticleMegafon and Telefónica to jointly develop cloud services
Megafon and Telefónica are set to co-develop new cloud services Russian telecoms operator MegaFon has become the latest carrier to join Spanish carrier Telefónica’s partnership programme, which aims to...
View ArticleTelcos will not be at core of cloud says British Gas director of tech
Kassir Hussain, director technology, British Gas Telcos are not the natural providers of enterprise cloud services because they do not come from the software industry, according to Kassir Hussain,...
View ArticleFacebook taps vendors to drive connectivity in developing world
Facebook has assembled Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung to drive the new project Facebook has created an initiative—Internet.org—to bring internet connectivity to the poor and...
View ArticleExponential-e wins Scott Moncrieff deal
Scottish accountancy firm Scott-Moncrieff has enlisted Exponential-e to move its datacenter and service infrastructure to the cloud. The corporate networking specialist said the move was part of a long...
View ArticleWeDo to offer roaming and rating solutions through PT cloud
Portugal Telecom opened a 50,000 server datacenter in September Portuguese business assurance specialist WeDo Technologies has announced a partnership with incumbent operator Portugal Telecom (PT) that...
View ArticleAsiaInfo claims first European deal with Telenor Denmark transformation project
AsiaInfo claims first European deal with Telenor Denmark transformation project Chinese telecoms software provider AsiaInfo Linkage has announced a supply deal with Telenor Denmark, the vendor’s first...
View ArticleTelefónica unveils comprehensive virtualization plans
Enrique Blanco, global CTO, Telefónica Spanish multi-national operator Telefónica has unveiled a wide-reaching Network Functions Virtualization programme that it says will see it have more than 30 per...
View ArticleTelefónica CCDO: “Europe needs to accelerate its momentum in ICT”
Eduardo Navarro, chief commercial digital officer at Telefónica The chief commercial digital officer of Spanish incumbent telco, Eduardo Navarro, Telefónica has used a speech at the EC Innovation...
View ArticleBelgacom launches consumer cloud service
Belgian incumbent operator Belgacom has launched a cloud storage service for its domestic fixed internet customers, offering 10GB of storage for free, 30GB for a monthly fee of €2.95 and 200GB for...
View ArticleCarta Blanco: NFV at Telefónica
Enrique Blanco, global CTO, Telefónica The October 2012 white paper that brought the topic of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to the wider industry consciousness—and introduced the ETSI NFV...
View ArticleNTT Com announces NFV-based cloud services
The ICT solutions arm of Japanese incumbent operator NTT, NTT Com, has launched what it says is the first suite of cloud services that enterprise customers can activate themselves and pay for on a...
View ArticleBlock launches hybrid solutions for health sector
UK IT services provider Block has announced a suite of hosted services aimed at the UK healthcare market, timed to take advantage of a growing enthusiasm among organisations within the sector for...
View ArticleProductivity Commission criticises NZ Government approach to cloud
The Auckland skyline The New Zealand Productivity Commission, which as its name suggests advises the New Zealand Government on productivity issues, has issued a report warning that the government is...
View ArticleCloudera picks up security specialist Gazzang
Hadoop developer Cloudera on Monday announced the strengthening of its security offerings with the acquisition of Gazzang, a big data security specialist. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but...
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