Cisco says it will acquire cloud networking company Meraki for $1.2 billion in cash. Meraki focuses on mid-market customers, offering networking solutions that can be centrally managed from the cloud. When the acquisition is complete, Meraki will form Cisco’s new …
Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
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Oracle’s latest pair of moves show the company’s efforts to bolster its cloud portfolio. By making a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, a cloud development platform that supports Ruby, PHP and Node, Oracle is pushing its platform-as-a-service strategy. This …
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Six months after acquiring Ortiva Wireless, Allot Communications has launched a video optimization solution called Allot VideoClass. Allot purchased the La Jolla, Calif.-based mobile video optimization company for an undisclosed amount in May. Andrei Elefant, Allot vice president of product management …
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Samsung increased its leadership in the mobile phone market even as worldwide mobile phone sales decreased. According to Gartner’s latest numbers, mobile phone sales to end users were down 3.1% in 3Q12 compared to 3Q11 with approximately 428 million units …
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The Spanish telecom group Telefónica announced that it has integrated its machine-to-machine (M2M) services for smart cities into a global solution. The company said the new offering will create an open ecosystem which will enable town councils, urban service providers and …
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Earlier this year, the CEO of IBM’s Brazilian unit said that more time is needed to understand the impact of mobile devices on corporate business, but that hasn’t stopped IBM from acting. The company recently announced new software and service additions …
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How can carriers take advantage of big data? The answer, according to Olly Downs, senior vice president of data sciences at Globys, is to apply scientific marketing technologies on top of a dynamic big data repository. Downs said that this …
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Microsoft announced earlier this week that the company is dropping its “Messenger” product and replacing it with Skype, which it acquired last year, for its online chat service. In a blog post, Microsoft said “Skype and Messenger are coming together, …
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For the first time, smartphones has overtaken laptops as the most popular way to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, according to a report compiled by Informa Telecoms & Media and released by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). The study also found …
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Enterasys Networks aims to double wireless sales with the worldwide launch of its Wi-Fi portfolio, IdentiFi, aimed at enterprises deluged with an influx of employee-owned devices in the workplace. Globally, BYOD has affected enterprises and has imposed challenges for IT …
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Over the next five years, 65% of enterprises will adopt a mobile device management (MDM) solution for their corporate liable users. The forecast by Gartner shows how the increased functionality of smartphones and rising popularity of tablets will drive IT …
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T-Systems, the corporate customer arm of Deutsche Telekom, is betting on cloud services. “In the next few years, companies will be buying through the cloud,” said Juergen Urbanski, vice president for cloud at T-Systems, during the Gartner Symposium in São …
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Mobile and social technologies represent a departure from the information technologies that CIOs are used to, such as ERP and CRM. This change is one of the three fundamental questions IT leaders and CIOs are facing, according to Mark McDonald, …
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The prevalence of “iDevices,”the bring-your-own-devices (BYOD) trend and the shift from Blackberry to Apple and Google devices are among the major challenges to mobile security today. “BYOD has changed it fundamentally,” said John McCormack, global president of Websense. McCormack talked with …
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Organizational entrenchment and disruptions; software networks; bigger data and storage; hybrid cloud services; client and server architectures; the Internet of things; IT/OT and appliance madness; operational complexity; virtual data center; and IT demand—these are the top technology trends people need …
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“The future of computing is social, mobile, information and cloud, and companies are doing pieces of it correctly today. But where the real advantages to the vendors’ side and the consumers’ side or the corporate side will be when they …
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Among the many buzzwords in the IT world, BYOD was one of the most talked about this year. The phenomenon known as “bring-your-own-device,” which refers to employees bringing their own equipment into the corporate environment, was boosted by the launch of …
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Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO and president, visited Brazil twice in less than a year—once in November 2011 and again this week. It is unusual for a device manufacturing company to have its global CEO visiting an emerging country so often. In Nokia’s …
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The global phenomenon of big data could create 4.4 million IT jobs worldwide by 2015, of which 1.9 million will be in the United States, according to Peter Sondergaard, Gartner’s senior vice president and global head of research. As Sondergaard …
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Global data center traffic is forecasted to grow fourfold to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016, while cloud traffic is expected to achieve 4.3 zettabytes by 2016, a 44% combined annual growth rate (CAGR), from 683 exabytes …
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Telecom operators want to avoid becoming dumb pipe. They are looking for ways to increase their revenue with value-added services that complement their regular voice and data services. Several surveys have already highlighted the advance of telecom providers into the cloud …
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Motorola Solutions latest bet is on a new class of hands-free enterprise mobile computers that use advanced voice recognition, head gestures and video streaming to navigate applications to access business-critical documents and schematics. With the so-called HC1, Motorola Solutions aims to …
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It was not an easy quarter for Microsoft and Google. The two giant companies both presented their results for the quarter ending Sept. 30. The acquisition of Motorola Mobility pushed down Google’s results, since Motorola Mobility posted an operating loss …
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Germany giant software company SAP has taken a step further into the cloud computing market when it unveiled its plans for SAP Hana Cloud, a next-generation cloud platform based on in-memory technology. The company also announced the first offerings based on the …
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Networking, cloud, consumerization and mobility are among top enterprise concerns. The so-called mobile-cloud is set to be the next major architectural transition, as companies everywhere start looking for effective strategies to harness cloud computing benefits, without disrupting their current business models. …