BROWSING: IT

Cloud Foundry Foundation said the gap in cloud developer skills is threatening the firm’s digital transformation Companies in Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom are having trouble hiring cloud developers, Cloud Foundry Foundation’s Marketing & Research Head Devin Davis told RCR Wireless News. The executive said companies...

Digital transformation is a trending buzzword in the information technology industry. While somewhat nebulous, it speaks to the need for generally risk-adverse, slow-moving enterprises to embrace things like the app economy, cloudification and software-based virtualization of business process. Factor in the threat from highly focused startups...

With the Rio Olympics around the corner, information and communications technology infrastructure deployments are in the final stages. The Technology Operations Centre is the control room for the competition and noncompetition venues. From there, a team of more than 600 ICT professionals from all...

In the age of cloud computing and borderless workflow, enterprise IT is under going a seismic shift to accommodate the needs of the modern worker while enabling business-wide flexibility and responsiveness through technology integration. In a new report from Oracle titled "The Era I Enterprise: Ready...

Dell is selling its IT services subsidiary, Perot Systems, to NTT Data of Japan for $3.1 billion, according to reports. The Dell holding provides IT services to the medical, government and other vertical markets. The deal was disclosed in an NTT filing with the Tokyo...

WASHINGTON – Federal Chief Information Officer: "We are facing a crisis ..." The U.S. government, despite commanding a $3.8 trillion budget, is lagging behind many other developed countries in IT and "Internet of Things" investment. When most people think of the federal government, they focus...

Inside Dell World - HetNet Happenings: Episode 36 On this episode of HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney takes you inside the Dell World exhibition, which concluded this week in Austin, Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTauTdx4toU&feature=youtu.be In the first clip, Dell founder Michael Dell discusses the company's just announced acquisition of...

AUSTIN, Texas – This year’s Dell World opened with the buzz of Dell’s proposed $67 billion merger with IT giant EMC still ringing in everyone’s ears. The acquisition makes it clear the Austin, Texas-based company is all in on IT. At the opening press conference,...

In this week's Coders I touch on independent IT consultants, and what they learned at the first ACES Conference in New Orleans. Also, I'll tell you what I learned from those IT consultants about the Apple Watch. Speaking of Apple, its World Wide Developer's Conference...

Huawei ranks connected and developing nations in new report The United States is the most connected country in the world, according to Huawei’s Global Connectivity Index, which considers investment in networks, computing and storage, as well as e-commerce and other economic variables. Huawei, a global information and...

Ericsson buys Chinese IT firm Sunrise Technology WASHINGTON – Swedish telecom equipment and infrastructure provider Ericsson announced earlier this week its purchase of the mobile unit of Chinese IT firm Sunrise Technology. The move adds more than 1,000 Chinese employees to Ericsson’s payroll even as the...

A $1.2 billion deal is expanding American Tower’s reach in Brazil while, in India, telco giant Tech Mahindra is expanding its global reach with acquisition of U.S.-based Lightbridge Communications. http://youtu.be/9dK30CBxS1A American Tower made that deal with Telecom Italia’s TIM Cellular. That price tag buys American Tower...

A new report from public-private partnership MeriTalk says that while federal agencies are making progress on some crucial IT programs, they aren't leveraging the full advantage of initiatives in areas including virtualization, cloud computing, remote access, consolidation and infrastructure diversification. MeriTalk focuses on improving the...

Service providers seeking to become more agile businesses face the complex reality that the very systems that have brought them success thus far are often a huge hindrance to their ability to move forward in a digital world. That was one common thread among sessions...

Telecom CIO Spotlight: As telecom operators face an increased competition that comes not only from other carriers but also from over-the-top players, RCR Wireless News will go in-depth on what chief information officers (CIO) can do to help telcos to become more competitive. This...

A new report by CDW looks at integrating mobile technology into work environments, and found a "support gap" between how IT departments perceive their performance and the experience of workers using bring-your-own-device programs. The report is based on a survey earlier this year of 1,200...

A billion wireless subscribers rely each day on a network operator who never sends them a bill or makes them an offer. Ericsson now manages networks covering a billion people, customers with whom the company has no direct relationship. The world's top vendor of...

It’s no secret that the future of the enterprise network lies with wireless, especially as computing technology aggressively and constantly expands on a mobile level. But, to support the mobile device boom (which Cisco pegs at 50 billion by 2020), network engineers will need to...

International communication doesn't have to be complex. In this white paper, you'll discover the challenges organizations with international travelers face to strike an appropriate balance between ease of use for those focused on being productive when traveling internationally, and the cost of using non-domestic...

Sharing revenue in a business to business to consumer (B2B2C) model can be complex from an IT point of view. How is revenue apportioned and how is it measured? In addition, what should carriers do to move money reliably and accurately across all partnerships...

Cognitive computing is not brand new as IBM has been working to create chips that think like the human brain for some time. But during IBM Brazil's December press lunch, the company's local president, Rodrigo Kede, predicted that cognitive computing would be the next...

The Brazilian IT service market has good momentum. Brazil's market represents the majority (49%) of the total U.S.$32 billion IT service market in Latin America. With a positive and promising GDP, global appetite for new growth, open culture, and a dynamic and diversified economy, Brazil...

Gartner forecasts that information technology spending in Latin America in 2012 will be a little less than the amount predicted for 2011. Last year, Gartner forecasted that IT spending in Latin America would reach U.S.$303 billion by the end of 2011. However, during this week's Gartner Symposium (read all...

The Brazilian government has great ambitions for its information technology (IT) sector. Yesterday, the government unveiled a vast investment program totaling U.S.$247.65 million (R$500 million) over the 2012-2015 period, which aims to improve and increase software development, boosting both the software and IT service...