Integration and Services: News

Samsung is making an aggressive sales push in the U.S. market by expanding into thousands of third-party retail outlets where dedicated staff will sell and provide advice on the company's smartphones, tablets and entertainment products.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud.

About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially stalled, Embotics curtailed its Hyper-V work to focus resources elsewhere.

CA Technologies’ recently appointed CEO, Michael Gregoire, has vowed to make the company an innovator in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and has asked his customers to upgrade to the latest releases in order to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Telco, AAPT, has selected Aussie-based OrionVM for its locally-developed wholesale Cloud platform to complement its private Cloud strategy.

Citrix has unveiled GoToWebcast in North America and Europe, providing users with a "low-cost", self-service webcasting tool for up to 5000 attendees.

Indian outsourcer Wipro reported slow revenue growth in its IT services business, reflecting a continued volatility in the outsourcing market.

Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.

Three Australian partners have been recognised in Dell’s Asia Pacific and Japan PartnerDirect Excellence Awards.

EganTeamBoard has named Ingram Micro Australia as its new distribution partner - and only authorised distributor - for the full range of TeamBoard products in Australia.

India's Tata Consultancy Services reported strong first quarter revenue and profit growth, despite indications that the outsourcing market is still uncertain.

Siemens' Smart Grid division has announced a global strategic cooperation in big data with Teradata, through which it will further optimise its solutions' portfolio to provide energy utilities with more transparency on the status and activities in their networks.

The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices.

IBM software and services company, Certus Solutions, has restructured part of its business, splitting the management of two lines - business analytics (BA) and information management (IM) - as a result of significant growth in both areas.

Microsoft partner, OST, has implemented an ERP system for Australian footware retailer, Spend-less Shoes.

Verizon Wireless reportedly has offered US$1 billion to $1.5 billion for some of Clearwire's spectrum leases, possibly complicating Sprint Nextel's attempt to buy out the company in conjunction with its acquisition by Softbank.

Dish Network's offer on Monday to buy Sprint for $25.5, includes strategic and technology advantages SoftBank doesn't offer in its rival $5.5 billion bid for a 70% stake in the carrier, the satellite service provider claims.

Eight months after hatching a new services division, Avnet Cloud Services, the company is already seeing strong uptake by resellers of its hosted private Cloud solutions.

Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank.

Comcast plans to expand its IPv6-based offerings for business customers with the launch of commercial broadband and Metro Ethernet services that support the next-gen Internet Protocol later this year.