SAP has announced a new cloud environment for its in-memory computing platform, SAP HANA. “HANA Enterprise Cloud” is a managed service from SAP that offers customers an environment to operate SAP software. Basically, HANA Enterprise Cloud is a set of managed services provided through SAP’s data centers. The customer gets an environment to deploy SAP software on SAP HANA. According [...]

PAC lance le premier Cloud Index sur le marché français. Ce projet ambitieux permettra d’évaluer le taux de maturité des entreprises (représentatives de tous les secteurs) sur le Cloud tous les semestres. Pour l’élaboration de cet Index, PAC a mis en place une méthodologie permettant de quantifier le niveau de maturité en utilisant des critères d’évaluation tels que le niveau [...]

Oracle made an unexpected, creative and strategic move yesterday with its purchase of Acme Packet for $1.7bn. Acme Packet is a US-based “global provider of session border control technology:” It facilitates delivery of voice, data and unified communications services and applications over IP networks. Acme is used particularly by telcos but also by large enterprises and service providers such as [...]

T-Systems’ latest reporting has made me think about one more impact the cloud trend has on the IT industry: For the third quarter of 2012, the provider reported a decline in order entry compared with the prior-year quarter. There is nothing extraordinary about this fact per se but the reason given is worth having a closer look at: “This reflects [...]

The Russian IT market has had a very successful year in 2011, being by far the fastest growing market in Europe. The over 15% growth rate as well qualifies it as one of the most dynamic at the global level, after China and India. If compared to European regions, the Western Europe mature markets’ average growth has been modest, around [...]

It has today become commonplace to say that Cloud computing has a disruptive effect on all the players of the IT landscape. Telcos are increasingly pushing their IT offerings, software vendors wonder if they should go on the SaaS path and how they should do it, and IT services providers often see the SaaS momentum as a very bad news, [...]

Progress Software has had a torrid last 12 months, but new CEO Jay Bhatt thinks he knows how to fix it. His radical strategy change will either hasten the company’s demise or restore growth. We are inclined to think it could just work. Progress is one of the great survivors from the 4GL boom of the 1970s and 80s. Other [...]

German HQ’d SI T-Systems has had considerable success with its Dynamic Services for SAP Applications over the last few years – but largely to German firms. A new €160m contract with BAT will help its push to become a truly global hosting supplier. The slightly cumbersome product name encompasses a hosted implementation of SAP together with applications management, integration and [...]

Capgemini Group is aiming to secure an additional €400m in annual revenue by 2015 through the creation of a new division focused on mobility-related IT services. The new ‘Mobile Solutions’ global service line (GSL) will round up the group’s existing 200 mobile subject matter experts (including those in the Sogeti wing), to provide consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services. A [...]

Last month Atos, EMC and VMware announced the formation of a new European cloud infrastructure provider, called Canopy. Canopy aims to offer best-of-breed technology together with Atos know-how to implement it – a “One-Stop-Shop” for cloud services. Canopy’s portfolio will include four key offerings: Enterprise Application Store Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) Private Cloud Cloud strategy & transformation journey [...]