EMC and VMware have yesterday launched officially Pivotal, their spin-off dedicated to Enterprise PaaS and Cloud-based Data Management. It is supposed to take a radical new approach to application middleware services, inspired from Cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services and Google. However, Pivotal is no start-up and from its creation, it was designed to take on the emerging PaaS [...]

The consolidation in the UK software testing market continues apace with TestPlant’s purchase of Facilita. TestPlant, which is based in London (and recently won the rare accolade for a software company of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise) is emerging as one of Europe’s largest specialist tools vendors, with its test automation tool EggPlant, used by the likes of Ericsson, Google [...]

Avant-hier se tenait la grand messe du Testing “made in France”, la JFTL (Journée Française des Tests Logiciels), et il est intéressant de constater que chaque année les visiteurs sont plus nombreux, les conférences plus pointues et les exposants plus présents. Avec 550 visiteurs triés sur le volet (800 demandes !!) l’édition 2013 se place sous le signe de la [...]

This is the first in a new series of blogs in which PAC looks at key end user accounts and analyses the dynamics likely to drive future SITS expenditure. Overview: Today’s news that Virgin Media is to be acquired by US-based Liberty Global in a $23.3bn cash deal, is one of the biggest events to hit the European telecoms and [...]

The world of independent testing has seen significant change in recent years. As we’ve highlighted in previous blogs, Germany’s SQS emerged as the “last man standing” in terms of independent test service suppliers of any significant scale, as the supplier community polarized into large generalists and small boutiques. But a new kid on the block is staking a claim in [...]

SAP testing will be one of the hottest areas of the €92bn global testing market in 2013, as SAP users look to speed up and improve the quality of upgrade and extension projects. We’ve looked in previous blogs at the growing challenge and cost of effectively testing SAP platforms, but further evidence of the buzz around this market came this [...]

La journée française du test logiciel (JFTL), qui se tient le mardi 26 mars 2013, est l’évènement incontournable en France de l’activité du testing. Elle se veut un événement fédérateur de l’écosystème du test et de la qualité logicielle, et permet également de mieux diffuser les Best Practices. Le travail de fond a commencé par la création et la promotion [...]

Cloud computing would appear to be a perfect fit for the world of Formula One motor racing. Teams need huge elasticity in their computing landscape in order to meet spikes in demand around races which are held in increasingly diverse locations, across eight months of the year. The IT organization is tasked with pulling together massive volumes of data on [...]

Testing services suppliers are looking to differentiate themselves in a number of ways, in what is becoming a highly competitive market. Some are building up expertise and IP around industry sectors, some are focusing on specific vendors (SAP, Temenos) and others are developing skills sets around particular technology areas (mobility, security). For Steria, the main focus is on quality excellence, [...]

Security always ranks near the top of business’ IT priorities, and a swift glance at recent headlines tells you why that’s the case. In the last week, the New Zealand Government has kick-started a major inquiry into after highly sensitive citizen data became openly available from the Department of Work and Income. Meanwhile, Greater Manchester Police were hit with a [...]