A survey of telcos and carriers shows how they plan to handle the expected boom in wifi connections, and integrate them into payments. Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its 2014 Carrier WiFi Strategies and Vendor Leadership.
Riverbed Technology's Q1 showed sales up 8% yr/yr, driven by good channel and European performance. The network optimisation and app performance company showed total GAAP revenue for Q114 was $265m up 8% compared to the first quarter of 2013, as data centres look for maximum performance.
TIBCO Software has bought Jaspersoft Corporation, effective immediately. Jaspersoft is now a product group within TIBCO and the name will continue in this form.
With several billion euros of outsourcing business at stake, several leading figures in the Ukrainian IT sector have got together to reassure customers. With tensions between the country and Russia, there has been concern at the ability of the industry to continue to deliver IT services.
Russian datacentre company Ixcellerate's Moscow One Datacentre has been certified for design, build and operation accreditation to IBM Resilience Level 3. The carrier-neutral datacentre is claimed to be the first in Russia to receive this accreditation.
The net sales for Tech Data in Europe last year were $16.6bn (62% of worldwide net sales), an increase of 7% (4% in euros) from the prior fiscal year. SDG, which it acquired last year, contributed approximately $2.3bn (approximately 1.7bn euros) to fiscal 2014 net sales, it says.
The annual report from Audit Analytics shows that the US corporations are continuing to amass large sums which they are unwilling to import to the US for tax reasons.
Microsoft's message to ISVs is that it has one consistent platform. This includes flexible development, unified management common identity and integrated virtualisation in a complete data platform. What Microsoft now has for the first time, Rob Croft (pictured), Microsoft senior director.
If you want to buy a Watson, IBM will sell you one, Lauri Saft, director of the Watson cognitive computing partner programme told the ISV convention, but that is not the way many will use it. IBM's cognitive computing system is something that many at the event had not been exposed to before, and many had questions on how it could benefit partners.
With demand squeezed by PC weakness and SSD cannibalisation, Gartner forecasts global hard drive shipments will post a 2.9% CAGR from 2013-2018, growing from 552 million units to 635.1 million. High-capacity business-critical drives as used by Web/cloud service providers, are expected to fuel much of the industry's growth by delivering a 25.1% CAGR.