Traditional IT projects have followed a “Define-Design-Develop-Deploy” mindset, where most or all of the computational resources were owned, operated, and maintained by the developing organization. Cost estimates for system acquisition were often wrong, and virtually always unrealistically low.  Some of the reasons for the inaccurate forecasts included: Changing requirements; cost increases from [...]

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By Jesus Rodriguez, Tellago, Inc  and Tellago Studios, Inc

Enterprise mobility is, arguably, the most important trend in today’s enterprise IT. The ability to enable enterprise business capabilities through mobile devices is an essential element of the modern enterprise. Almost ironically, despite being a technology trend called to modernize the traditional enterprise, [...]

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Over the past year, cloud computing has changed from a technology buzzword into the reality of business. Even companies outside of the technology space are learning that a cloud solution can give them a significant edge over their competition. This edge is only heightened for small and mid-sized businesses, as these companies [...]

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Quick interview with Jean Foster, VP Marketing of Neustar.

Discussion about Neustar’s Intelligent Cloud solution which enables the delivery of mobile services across operator networks. Also, mobile service provider can enhance the service with additional opt-in context for the subscriber.

Interview led by Martin Tantow, Editor-in-Chief, CloudTimes.

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Executives from Juniper Networks and ZTE discussed last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the way in which networks are evolving in the face of changing customer demands, highlighting approaches operators can take to support growth in new services while offsetting flatness in legacy businesses.

Speaking in this morning’s keynote, [...]

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Operators will be able to expand into new areas as connected devices become increasingly central to people’s lives – but they need to be agile in order to exploit these opportunities, warns Telefonica Digital director of global partners and devices, Steve Alder.

Alder, who spoke in the ‘Consumer Devices: Riding the Next [...]

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February 2012 – and Barcelona is becoming the hub of the mobile world again. The Mobile World Congress (MWC) or “Fiesta de los Móviles” like the locals call it will take place from February 27th – March 1st. After the congress moved from Cannes, France to Barcelona in Spain it has [...]

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Rackspace Hosting Inc., the biggest competitor to Amazon.com Inc. in the market for Web-based data centers, rose 9.5 percent in early trading after sales and profit topped analysts’ estimates.

The company earned $25 million, or 18 cents per share, on revenue of $283.3 million. Analysts had expected a profit of 15 cents [...]

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Modern businesses used to operate their own technology infrastructure with the help of IT experts who manage in-house data center, security protocol and other complex business IT solutions. Today, however, that trend is shifting towards a new paradigm on cloud computing. The new technology improvements rapidly demand that businesses keep abreast with [...]

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Joyent recently bagged $85 million of funding from several investors headed by major participant’s Accelero Capital and Weather Investment II Group. Other funding are also expected from Telefonica Digital plus existing support from Intel Capital, Liberty Global, Epic Ventures, El Dorado Ventures and Greycroft Partners.

The series of funding will leverage Joyent’s [...]

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AT&T recently announced its new cloud computing solutions that will help enterprises to unify their communications systems. This is done through an entirely cloud-based platform, meaning there will be no need for an in-house software or hardware to do the task.

AT&T’s unified communications (UC) will leverage any business in terms of [...]

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Oracle mounted on its Big Data, Hadoop last October, this was after everyone thought that Larry Ellison, CEO will announce their roll up of their open-source elephant. It turned out, however, that everyone’s assumptions were wrong.

The truth is, Oracle had made an OEM agreement with Cloudera, the largest commercial Big Data [...]

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Organization Will Harness Power of Tech Industry to Create Jobs, Improve City

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today joined tech industry leaders to announce the launch of San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation (sf.citi), an organization that will leverage the collective power of the tech sector into a force for [...]

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The world’s largest companies are set to unveils a slew of new products at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas Jan 10-13.

Social media agency Social Radius, created Start-up Debut a small gathering organized around CES that took place Sunday night at Mandalay Bay’s Foundation Room, where [...]

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“The cloud” has revolutionized from being a substance-free buzzword, into a buzzword that brings significance to businesses. Companies such as Google, Amazon and Salesforce led the way for this transformation during the past years. Cloud services at home, in the workplace and in enterprises has increased significantly. With this, mobile platforms are [...]

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In this year of cautious optimism and grinding economic growth, it is safe to say that buying won in the proverbial buy versus build question. In 2010, many companies slashed costs and hoarded cash. However, in Q1 2011, the economy began to grow and growth expectations in the market elevated; as [...]

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