Vodafone appoints group carrier services director
Brian Fitzpatrick, Vodafone’s incoming head of Group Carrier ServicesMobile operator group Vodafone has announced that telecommunications services provider ACN Europe’s CEO Brian Fitzpatrick will join...
View ArticleCloudera unveils Hadoop development kit for Big Data
Hadoop is breaking through in Big DataCloud and Big Data specialist Cloudera has announced the availability of its first developer kit, catering to Apache’s open source software framework Hadoop (CDH)....
View ArticleDell to focus on OpenStack-based private cloud, dumps public cloud strategy
As Dell continues to grapple with slumping demand in its legacy business units, the company has cancelled plans to launch an OpenStack-based public cloud and has also canned its VMWare virtualisation...
View ArticleTelefonica: The consultative cloud services sale
Tim Marsden, Global Cloud Services Director at Telefónica, talks to telecoms.com at Telco Cloud World Forum about the opportunities in cloud, which the carrier sees as an extension of communications,...
View ArticleOrange brings enterprise cloud infrastructure to Asia and North America
European-based firm Orange Business Services on Tuesday announced the expansion of its Flexible Computing enterprise cloud offering to Asia and North America, in a bid to capture a growing share of...
View ArticleAdvanced 365, UKFast, Softcat and Phoenix join UK government G-Cloud III
Advanced 365, UKFast, Softcat and Phoenix are the latest group of cloud service suppliers to have secured a spot in the UK government CloudStore, a digital marketplace for ICT services procured by...
View ArticleNSN, Intel collaborate on Liquid Apps; intelligent base stations
Liquid Apps moves intelligence to the base stationHardware manufacturers Nokia Siemens Networks and Intel are to collaborate on common objectives around NSN’s Liquid Applications initiative, to help...
View ArticleMonaco Telecom sells cloud to non-rival carriers
Monaco Telecom is looking to resell cloud services to other operatorsCable & Wireless Communications’ Monaco business, Monaco Telecom, is to sell cloud services to smaller non-competing fixed and...
View ArticleTelenor to invest €500m in fibre broadband
Major cities like Oslo will benefit most from Telenor’s new investment planNorway’s telecoms incumbent Telenor has committed itself to investing NOK4bn (€500m) in fibre-optic broadband services for...
View Article2013 a ‘Darwinian tipping point’ for Europe’s telcos
Europe’s telcos “must innovate or die”, says IDATEEurope’s telecoms and media companies must embrace innovation in key areas such as mobile, cloud computing and big data, as well as forge strong...
View ArticleOpen source SDN initiative sees daylight
SDN is on everyone’s lipsCollaborative open source initiative, the OpenDaylight Project, has announced Cyan, Huawei, Inocybe Technologies, Plexxi and Radware as new members to help further the...
View ArticleShare and sync needs to be cloud agnostic, says YouSendIt SVP
Eric van Miltenburg is YouSendIt’s senior vice president of business development YouSendIt is one of the most mature cloud-based file share and sync services on the market today, and Business Cloud...
View ArticleVipnet Croatia taps Neostratus for public cloud
Vipnet’s offering will be run from the public cloudThe Croatian subsidiary of Telekom Austria, Vipnet, has tapped up cloud services provider Neostratus to provide a fully customisable, white-labelled...
View ArticleOpenFlow wins further support by SDN advocates
SDN is on everyone’s lipsNetwork management and switching specification OpenFlow is being buoyed by industry support, according to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organisation...
View ArticleNorth America leads as Europe falters in cloud innovation
Europe is lagging in terms of cloud innovationNorth America is the leading region for cloud computing innovation, while Europe is bringing up the rear, according to research released this week. A...
View ArticleA greener cloud is slowly emerging, says Andrew Hatton Greenpeace
Andrew Hatton is head of IT at Greenpeace UK With Greenpeace’s “Clean our Cloud” initiative now well into its second year, Business Cloud News had the chance to speak with Andrew Hatton, the UK...
View ArticleData sovereignty issues highlighted by HoP ICT head
The House of Parliament is heavily dependent on Microsoft The importance of data sovereignty in the cloud services environment was highlighted by Joan Miller, head of Parliamentary ICT at the UK Houses...
View ArticleTelstra plans to outsource 170 cloud jobs to India
Telstra has announced plans to outsource 170 jobs from its cloud services division to India Australian operator Telstra has announced plans to outsource 170 jobs from its cloud services division to...
View ArticleSoonr & Colt Ceano: Partnering in the cloud
One of the most striking characteristics of the cloud sector is the degree to which new business and service delivery models are developing around the evolving slew of cloud technologies and services....
View Article2013 a ‘Darwinian tipping point’ for Europe’s telcos
Europe’s telcos “must innovate or die”, says IDATEEurope’s telecoms and media companies must embrace innovation in key areas such as mobile, cloud computing and big data, as well as forge strong...
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