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Australia's biggest public sector outsourcing tender takes another step forward with the shortlisting of vendors to compete for the end-user computing contract. 
The end of an era is approaching. For over 30 years the technology industry has relied on exponential improvements in microprocessor technology, described by Moore's Law, to deliver ever-increasing computing power at an ever-decreasing size and cost.
Global service provider switching and routing revenue was $3.4 billion in 2Q08, up 9% sequentially and 23% compared to the same quarter last year. For the first time in four quarters, edge IP/MPLS grew faster than core IP/MPLS versus the year-ago period.
Are the recent service outages by cloud computing and SaaS providers reason to doubt the future of cloud computing? We think not, but you should plan for occasional dry spells.
Symantec has grown rapidly both by organic growth and by acquisition. It is now much broader than security and storage management. It has an enviable financial record and an impressive product set.
The global optical networking (ON) market grew by an impressive 24% in 2007, exceeding $15 billion. Our current most likely forecast for the global ON market calls for compounded annual growth of 9% (2007-13), with spending nearly reaching $25.4 billion.
A high-level framework that captures the key information relating to vendors' strategies, and how they are executed. Identifying the positioning and key messages from the vendor around information management, its vision, and its current capabilities.
Ovum forecasts an overall decline in broadband access revenues over the next five years, with global revenues of $59.4 billion in 2007 rising to $62.4 billion in 2009 before declining to $55.6 billion in 2012.
Regional and country forecasts for IP centrex and IP PBX extensions and revenues for the period 2007-2012.
This comment explores the argument for why god-boxes that support all legacy as well as next-generation services have marginal propositions - at best.
It is still early to predict how well Teradata will fare as an independent firm. But it's certainly no start-up and needs to ensure its momentum continues by regularly delivering new product releases and enhancements and also product expansion and innova
The Vendor Contract Database shows carrier-vendor contracts around the world. The database is searchable by region, quarter, operator, vendor, and equipment segment. It contains over 4,000 contracts.
Telefónica is seeking to reposition its multinational managed services business as a tier-one provider. The business has announced a number of new multinational services capabilities and a new set of ICT convergent services
Tremendous gains from large-scale commodity-server-based computing have come with a growing cost, specifically underutilized assets and manual processes. The focus has now clearly swung back to operational costs.
Francois Barrault, CEO of BT Global Services, says his ideal corporate customer is a multinational whose CIO is dealing with "600 telco service providers, 400 data centres, 25,000 mobiles, and 5,000 Blackberries."
Preliminary results indicate the global ON market topped $4 billion in 2Q08. Of the top ten vendors, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Tellabs all posted large sequential declines, while Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, and Nortel gained the most.
The OATH group has not yet made a big impact. It is one of many initiatives in identity management coming from both the open source and proprietary camps. What has it achieved, how does it relate to other initiatives, and what are its prospects?
Serena is currently trying to reinvent itself, not just as a 'business mashup' provider but also as a SaaS and PPM provider. Overall, we doubt that Serena has and does what it takes to become one of the top SaaS tool and/or business mashup providers.
Having launched in 2004, Thumbplay is very much the new kid on the block in the US D2C market. It is competing with companies that have been active in the market for the past decade. Despite this, it has gained a lot of traction in a short amount of time
Microsoft continues to expand the data management capabilities of its SQL Server platform – this time into data quality, after agreeing to buy Israeli start-up Zoomix for an undisclosed amount.
EMC Documentum was quick to remind us that Open Text isn't the only transactional content management (TCM) player on the block, and in fact has a head-start on its rivals and a better integrated offering. Does it?
McAfee intends to acquire Reconnex, a data loss prevention (DLP) vendor. This expands McAfee's product scope, and underlines the increasing importance of DLP in the market. Other vendors need to improve their usability and ease of configuration.
Global DSL shipments were up 18% sequentially but down 6% versus 2Q07. In the CMTS market, Cisco's record port shipments in 2Q08 helped drive global volumes up 74% sequentially and up 160% versus the year-ago quarter.
» T-Systems 12 August 2008T-Systems, the business customer arm of Deutsche Telekom, is the leading IT services provider in the German market in terms of revenue, far ahead of its competitors.
This spreadsheet contains quarterly revenues, market share, rolling 4Q market share and rank for switching and routing vendors through 2Q08. The technology segments covered include IP/MPLS, IP/Ethernet, and ATM.
This spreadsheet contains quarterly market share data for switching and routing vendors through 2Q08. The application segments covered include IP transport and services, Ethernet transport and services, BRAS, and legacy transport and services.
IT organizations are rapidly realizing that there is no "one plan fits all" in an application portfolio modernization and rationalization initiative. Rather, there are many legacy modernization options, forcing the determination of transition status
Key findings from Ovum's end-user survey of wireless multimedia consumers
The OSGi service platform is a Java-based specification for providing a dynamic component or service module system. OSGi has become important because virtually every major Java platform provider is in the process of implementing it as their microkernel.
Global service provider switching and routing equipment revenue was $3.4 billion in 2Q08, up 9% sequentially and 23% compared to the same quarter last year. IP/MPLS edge sales were up 35% versus last year and IP/MPLS core revenues were up 33%.
Not so long ago, wholesalers' customer service processes were manually intensive. However, that picture has changed. Now wholesale customers are being offered powerful interfaces that can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of interactions.
Ovum's UK S/ITS Contracts Database provides critical insight into the market for software and IT services by providing details of more than 2,600 deals and tenders relevant to UK technology and services players.
VoIP is becoming an increasingly important alternative to traditional fixed telephony services, but country experiences vary greatly, as do the regulatory approaches. This report looks at how selected countries have chosen to tackle VoIP.
After introducing the new executives on its leadership team at its Asia Analyst Summit in Sydney in July, Nortel presented an aggressive plan to grow its business in China and the Asia-Pacific region.
The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office uses a location-based service from Omnilink Systems to track offenders and sees the solution as one tool in solving overcrowding in the county's jails.
Software AG, the Germany-based infrastructure software company has been buoyed by its acquisition of webMethods – turning in the best results in its 38-year history as it closed its full-year 2007 financials.
Evidence from a wide range of wholesalers demonstrates how far their customer interaction strategies have developed in the last few years.
Mobile business intelligence (BI) promised to go anywhere. But so far it hasn't, despite vendors feverishly adding new mobility features to their BI platforms. So why has Oracle recently announced new BI software for the wildly popular iPhone?
AT&T is the world's largest telecoms operator and benefits from scale and scope economies as a major player in the US market. Its wide range of activities has helped it hedge against declines so far, but recent trends suggest that it may be harder for AT
Cable & Wireless has faced major change since 2005, with the acquisition of Energis and entering the broadband wholesale market, while also facing declining revenues for its voice and data services.
Virtualization introduces new complexities and challenges when it comes to managing a combined physical and virtual infrastructure.
Operators around the world are reporting very strong take-up of mobile broadband, fuelled by the rollout of high-speed packet access (HSPA) networks, attractive price plans, increasing laptop penetration and the uptake of plug-and-play USB modems
Ovum projects that the North American optical networking market will grow from $4.8 billion in 2007 to $7.5 billion in 2013, for an average annual growth rate of 7.5%. Market fundamentals remain largely consistent with our December 2007 forecast.
Ultimately, openness, in the context of the telecom industry, has to do with the threat of competition from a supplier, the responsiveness to change of a supplier, and the ability of different platforms to interoperate.
Lufthansa Systems is a leading IT service provider for the global airline and aviation industry. Its strengths lie in its highly specialised service offerings to the airline industry, which enable it to offer end-to-end services to its clients.
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Serena does not simply aspire to transform itself into a hybrid on-premise/SaaS software provider. It is also intent on changing its internal culture, improving its execution on a variety of levels and expanding to a number of new markets.
Top-level data access forecasts by country and region for the period 2007-2012.
Challenges related to the complexity and scaling of the service edge are occurring at a time when new technological approaches to combining performance and flexibility are emerging.
» Global Crossing 1 August 2008A global service provider that is seeking to achieve a more sustainable mix of wholesale and enterprise business. Recent acquisitions should further improve the company's financial results and network reach.
With competitor Vodafone New Zealand able to leverage Vodafone's global scale and solutions, Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) has been forced to innovate in the enterprise mobility market.
This Excel spreadsheet gives information on HSPA services/trials/projects worldwide, including date of launch, coverage, speeds and suppliers of devices (datacards, USB modems, handsets, infrastructure) based on publicly available information.
Spreadsheets have always been the true loners of the corporate IT desktop. The software has been designed as a personal productivity desktop application — with "personal" being the operative word.
The HP-EDS merger is a few steps closer to reality, as the two vendors continue to receive approval from various government entities and company stakeholders.
Telefonica, the Spanish incumbent, has completed a year of remarkable performance, as shown in its year-end results. The integration of its regional operations is becoming a clear success.
Besides healing organizational and cultural rifts that have hobbled Alcatel-Lucent since the merger, the new management must make it a priority to get one step ahead of coming technological changes.
The Malaysian mobile market is approaching a time of potential disruption with new 3G entrants, WiMAX, the launch of mobile number portability, and rapid 3G adoption – all as the market approaches maturity.
In May 2008, the Chinese government formally announced the three "new" operators. China Mobile, a GSM operator, will take over China Tietong, a small fixed operator. China Telecom, the biggest fixed operator, will take over China Unicom's CDMA network.
In this series of case studies we show how four operators — Telekom Austria, 3 UK, Orange France and M1 — are developing their mobile broadband strategies.
Deutsche Telekom is under pressure from declining fixed voice revenues, as well as slowing mobile and broadband growth. In order to combat these issues, Deutsche Telekom is hoping IPTV will help it to generate new revenue streams and growth.
This report gives a detailed insight into the current penetration of MDM technologies in mobile handsets, and gives Ovum's predictions for future market development.
Alcatel-Lucent made two announcements July 29. First, it announced underwhelming 2Q08 results; second, it announced the impending departure of CEO Russo and Chairman Tchuruk. The leadership change is a much-needed signal that the company is moving on.
Enterprise broadband access forecasts for 2007-2012.
IBA faces significant challenges as it integrates iSoft and attempts to fulfil its potential in international markets.
IEEE has approved the 802.20 standard for mobile broadband wireless access. The main benefits of iBurst wireless broadband technology include its IP nativity, smart-antenna features and seamless handover capabilities at vehicular speeds.
To date, attention has focussed on the implementation of the wholesale market and ULL. We expect the industry to shift its attention to the implications of Telecom's new access network in the coming months.
Many issues define the Thailand mobile market including ongoing tariff wars, complex licensing, a new regulator, 3G, the introduction of interconnection and sophisticated marketing and segmentation.
BT Global Services now faces the hardest part of a strategy mapped out nearly six years ago when Ben Verwaayen took over as CEO — tapping into profits from the multimillion dollar networked IT deals
This Ovum Navigator shows that important differences exist between leading players in Europe and that vendors vary significantly in terms of the strength of their strategies and ability to deliver.
The UK is one of the most competitive broadband markets in the world. However, it is one of the few of the advanced European markets that has yet to announce any major FTTx initiative.
Over a month after the NHS announced the termination of Fujitsu Services' £996 million contract to deliver electronic patient records to the south of England the future of these services in the Southern Programme for IT (SPfIT) is still unclear.
In case anybody thought that BT's global acquisitions roadshow was over, the UK national operator has swooped for a double purchase of ICT providers in Germany.
When IBM acquired Cognos it gained a logical extension to its IM product & services portfolio. Can both companies work together to target the mid-market - and will they be successful in loosening Microsoft's grip on the sector?
EMEA continues to outpace North America as largest ON region on a rolling 4-quarter basis; the broad base of operator spending is driving the market. EMEA finished 2007 at $5.0 billion and our most likely forecast remains strong with a 9% CAGR to 2013.
With a price tag of 6.8 billion Business Objects is SAP's largest acquisition to date. If SAP & Business Objects get the integration right and they don't undermine the company's stated platform agnostic stance, they could steal a lead in the market.
ZTE is well positioned in the low-end handset market, particularly in handset customisation. It is present in the largest mobile markets of China and India, as well as emerging markets such as Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Apple announced that iPhone and iPod touch customers downloaded more than 10 million applications from the App Store in the first this weekend. The store was launched last Thursday. There are now 800 applications available on the store.
In 2007, Autonomy demonstrated its differentiation from the rest of the search engine market players, and positioned itself firmly as an enterprise software infrastructure vendor through the acquisitions of Zantaz and Meridio.
At one time Italy was the talk of Europe in terms of next-generation access, with innovative competitive operator Fastweb leading the way with its FTTB deployment. However, Fastweb's deployment was always going to be limited, and with no other network-ba
Zattoo stands apart from the plethora of Internet TV players by virtue of its almost stark simplicity. Its main differentiation from the competition lies in its pure focus on real-time, linear TV
For different reasons, global telcos are starting to offer enterprise fixed–mobile convergence (FMC) services in Asia-Pacific. This is increasing the pressure on incumbents to also consider the FMC path.
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