Cloud Computing

When it comes to investing in the cloud, European carriers are not keeping pace with operators in North America and Asia, according to new research from Informa’s Telecom Cloud Monitor. …

Lime, the Caribbean unit of Cable & Wireless Communications, is soliciting more business from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Caribbean by extending its suite of cloud-based services, the …

Microsoft has invested $10 million in a tech center located in São Paulo, its second and biggest center in Latin America joining a previously launched center in Mexico City. Microsoft …

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IDC Latin America followed the company’s global predictions in forecasting that 2012 will be the year of mobile and cloud platform wars as IT vendors vie for leadership while the …

Embracing enterprise-focused services has been a key strategy for several telecom operators around the globe. A recent cloud services study published by market research firm Infonetics Research shows that 70% …

It has been more than a year since Orange Business Services decided on a new go-to market strategy. The company, which is a unit of France Telecom, is looking to …

Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, which means a 66% compound annual growth rate, according to …

Consumerization, cloud computing, consumer and enterprise social networks, mobile application, the shifting of sources of supply from Asia to the Americas, big data and cybercrime are some of the trends …

In the same week that UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones President Horacio Vélez de Bedout submitted his resignation to the board, the government telecom announced that it has partnered with compatriot firm …

The first South American global cloud computing platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, was launched today in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the eighth geographic region worldwide …

Japan’s NEC and the Argentinian unit of Spain’s Telefónica have announced the first step in promoting cloud computing services in Latin America. As a result of previous partnership, Telefónica Argentina …

SAP’s strategy to go beyond traditional enterprise resource planning, moving toward mobile, big data and cloud computing has begun a new chapter. The German enterprise software giant has acquired SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions.

Although news, the big data concept has been recently spread among ICT market. “Big meets cloud” has been the EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) slogan this year. Big data and cloud …

Accustomed to the U.S. market, where banks have had no problems with buying standard ATMs, NCR Corp. has had to change to compete in the Brazilian market, where banks insist on customized machines.

Tata Communications today announced the launch of InstaHCM, a human capital management addition to its InstaApps software-as-a-service portfolio. InstaHCM will offered in partnership with SuccessFactors Inc., a company dealing in cloud-based business execution software.

While chief information officers are figuring out what — and no longer when — they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.

Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and …

IBM’s growth market unit, which includes 152 emerging countries under China’s leadership, is expected to represent 30% of the company’s revenues by 2015, an increase of 5 percentage points from …

As previously announced, Google is ending several services, such as its ambitious collaboration tool Wave, medical records engine Google Health, Twitter competitor Google Buzz, Wikipedia-like aggregate Knol and PC file-searching …

T-Mobile USA garnered some attention as Google unveiled its highly anticipated music offering in Los Angeles. As the only nationwide operator not offering Apple’s iPhone and corresponding iTunes service, T-Mobile …

Atos, a European information technology services company and the worldwide IT partner for next year’s Olympic Games in London, and the Chinese management software solutions Ufida International Holdings have invested U.S. $7.8 million to create Yunano, a joint venture to offer cloud services.

Ask chief information officers about their enterprise resource planning system, and they will probably refer to it not as ERP, but as SAP, using the name of German enterprise software …