Digitalisation World

Omni-channel retailing now the `must have’

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure Security Storage

Vendors of online retail management systems are now rushing headlong to provide omni-channel solutions as mobile devices become a key delivery and consumption tool

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure

In early June Stanislas de Bentzmann, co-CEO and co-founder of IT consulting group, Devoteam, wrote a blog for the company website. Since then, it has been widely circulated in mainland Europe, where the company makes much of its €500 million-plus revenue. Despite that, he makes some interesting points of direct relevance to the way Cloud Services World sees the exploitation of IT developing. Argue away by all means……..

Published in Cloud + MS Infrastructure

Cloud is the future of business, Platforms are the future of the cloud, and partnerships (rather than acquisitions or self-developed products) are the future of platforms. And while partnering with Netsuite was always on the cards, who would have thought Oracle would partner with Microsoft and Salesforce.com? But it has, and it makes you wonder what will be next. Still, it is service consumers that are likely to be the real beneficiaries.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting DC Facilities + Colo Design + Optimisation

Purity of vision, infrastructure and service cited as key to the deal.

Published in Cloud + MS Colocation/Hosting Data Analytics Infrastructure Platform Software Storage

Rackspace Hosting says that its recently acquired ObjectRocket Database as a Service (DBaaS) has entered into a strategic agreement with 10gen, the MongoDB company. Through this collaboration, Rackspace and 10gen will deliver the market’s first purpose-built cloud platform for MongoDB.