Cloudera, a U.S. provider of open-source software based on Hadoop, has opened a subsidiary in Japan, where local firms are increasingly using the platform to handle their exploding data stores.

Companies join to create SAP reseller and solutions-based consulting organisation

The arbiters of troubled government projects such as the myki e-ticketing system could soon be forced to account for their failures, as political forces threaten to end the groundhog day cycle of billion-dollar cost blowouts and long-term delays.

A small Australian business, wholly serving the Australian marketplace and with a cloud service operating from a datacentre in Australia might find its business details being scrutinised by the FBI.

Cloud services’ gravitational attraction as a business opportunity has been well realised in the channel. However, traditional IT providers are not the only organisations to be able to offer cloud services, and those providers are going to need to work out how to deal with some significant new competitors.

SAP provider, Extend Technologies, has hired Ian Hayward as branch manager for its Perth office.

The channel put the 'R' into recovery this week as new deals and partnerships promise growth for the ICT industry.

Japanese-based integrator and solution provider, NTT Data, has completed its acquisition of SAP specialist, Extend Technologies.