The Salesforce.com story demonstrates that the cloud and SaaS solutions can add up to interesting business opportunities for traditional systems integrators. At the “Salesforce Customer Company Tour 2013 – London“ yesterday, 2 May 2013, the presence of a number of large SIs such as Accenture, Capgemini, CSC and Deloitte proved this. During the event I had the chance to quickly [...]

A Universal Cloud Client consists of computer hardware and/or computer software which relies on cloud computing for application and cloud services delivery through web browsers and independently of the client device.

Last week it was announced that Telefonica bought the managed services business of bankrupt network integrator 2e2, taking in roughly 100 staff.  The two companies had previously run a joint venture – O2 Unify – which offered network access, kit and related services under a single ICT services model. While the acquisition may have more relevance for the UK, the [...]

I was reminded last week why I hate exhibitions. CloudExpo 2013 is typical of the breed, located in London Olympia which is the worst place to get to from, well, anywhere else in London. Inside, it’s full of vendors trying to give away ever-more creative (or desperate) freebies to delegates walking briskly past on their way to the lectures. “Can [...]

Wipro is creating a major new line of business which will create solutions around cloud, mobility, and analytics. Some 3000 staff will be moved into this new unit which will be headed by Shaji Farooq, the executive who joined Wipro from Infosys in 2012. Wipro is planning to report revenues of this new business line separately from Q1’FY14. The development [...]

The Indian Cloud services market is growing at a significant pace, despite perceived and actual challenges such as data security, compliance (privacy laws, local laws) and worries over uptime. Moreover, the way customers are consuming high performance computing is also undergoing major change. PAC estimates that the overall cloud market in India is worth around INR 50 billion, with more [...]

Last week, PAC spent a day in Atos’ headquarters in Bezons, France, to get an update on Atos’ Managed Services offerings, performance and strategy. The Managed Services business line is by far the biggest service line within Atos. With the acquisition of Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Atos has clearly become one of the global leaders for Managed Services. After [...]

We hear so much about the relationship between Big Data and Cloud but what does this relationship mean?  EMC made the idea famous with its advertising on Big Data and Cloud, and they do not offer a Big Data solution in the cloud – rather their large customers can build one with EMC offerings. One can host an analytics appliance [...]

Cloud et secteur public ne sont pas antinomiques. Dès aujourd’hui, de nombreuses organisations publiques françaises – collectivités locales et territoriales, établissements éducatifs, établissements de santé – ont déjà mis en œuvre des solutions de type SaaS, pour des raisons très pragmatiques. De la même façon que les entreprises ont externalisé les fonctions non « cœur de métier », les établissements publics, auxquels [...]

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 [...]