Integration and Services: News

Business Intelligence consultancy InfoReady is on the growth path this year as it sets its sights on achieving about 75 per cent growth

Communications integrator, Orange Business Services, is stepping up its cloud offerings in the local market in the next couple of years.

Network services provider to the telecommunications, energy, and water industries, Service Stream, has been awarded three separate contracts totalling $135 million.

Dell has launched a multi-vendor Cloud service for content creators, Dell Create, intended to help large broadcast companies, studios, creative shops and other media and entertainment customers improve content workflows with a centralised IT environment.

Tata Consultancy Services is to acquire French IT services company Alti in a bid to increase its presence in the European market.

Fujitsu has acquired RunMyProcess, a French startup that helps companies integrate on-site and cloud-based services.

The Swiss National Supercomputing Center will upgrade its supercomputer with Nvidia graphics processors to enable the system to more accurately predict the weather in the steep mountains of the Swiss Alps.

Wellington-headquartered Microsoft solutions provider, Intergen, has expanded its Australian footprint by opening a new office in Sydney CBD.

Orange Business Services has renewed a five-year contract with SGS to manage its Cloud-based corporate messaging services.

Datacom has sold its Asia-based business process outsource (BPO) assets for $20 million to US-based Convergys.

The 2013 ARN ICT Industry Awards were recently launched in Sydney with the annual Judges' Lunch. Intel Asia Pacific director of regional sales and business development, Philip Cronin, spoke to the gathering of industry leaders about change within the IT industry.

A variety of Cloud services offer free storage to get users signed up and on a path to become paying customers. Normally these free offers start at 2GB and range on up to maybe 10GB.

Reliance Industries and Reliance Communications are sharing infrastructure for the rollout of 4G services in India, apparently ending a dispute between the two Ambani brothers who head the companies.

Demand for ICT skills experienced a ‘reasonably sound’ level during the first quarter of 2013, according to the Peoplebank Salary Index.

Print vendor, Lanier, has purchased IT services provider, Inspire IT for an undisclosed sum, signalling a shift in company direction for the vendor.

IT industry stalwarts, Paul Sadler, Laurie Sellers and Rick Marks have set up marketing services company, PushPull Marketing

IT pros with skills in Microsoft Dynamics project management and architecture can look forward to healthy raises this year, according to a survey of more than 10,000 respondents worldwide.

Marketing services provider, Spark Corporate, has reported its partnership with Transaction Solutions (TAS) Managed Services, which began in January, is progressing as intended.

The 2013 ARN ICT Industry Awards were launched in true style at the Ivy Sunroom in Sydney with the annual Judges' Lunch. It was a fitting kick-off to the 2013 ARN ICT Industry Awards which will be held at a Black Tie gala dinner on Wednesday, September 18, at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

The 2013 ARN ICT Industry Awards were launched in true style at the Ivy Sunroom in Sydney with the annual Judges' Lunch.