Coromatic
The Evolution of Critical Facilities Coromatic Group is the Nordic market leader safeguarding business continuity and providing robust critical facilities centred on a simple concept: what does the customer need and how can we meet that need? Writer: Matt BoneProject Manager: Dan Hester With an interconnected society that is built on reliable access to online services and power, the solutions for meeting such demand in buildings 24 hours a day, seven days a week have become critical to companies. Add the increase in businesses using cloud services and requiring larger data storage locations, The Nordic region has seen itself become the new hotbed for data centre and cloud solutions. With an abundance of land available for building upon and temperatures perfectly suited to running thermally dependant hardware, Sweden is the perfect backdrop for Coromatic’s burgeoning services.Established back in 1992, Coromatic has been at the forefront of delivering reliable power and critical facilities in the Nordic region, thanks to the entrepreneurial mind set and family oriented values of managers and employees alike. Anders Tollsten, CEO of Coromatic, believes that being an early adopter of security and critical facilities put them in a strong position when the world kept getting more reliant on IT: “Back when the company was set up, the founders wanted to ensure that they offered customers in the IT sector something new and something that would really benefit the client’s company. The emphasis was always on customer needs and addressing them. We quickly saw that designing and building secure data centres and other critical facilities for…
iStone
Value-add, Long Term Sustainable Solutions in IT IT consultancy iStone strive to be the partner of choice for clients who want to increasethe value of their business critical systems Writer: Emily JarvisProject Manager: Dan HesteriStone is a Swedish business and IT consulting group working primarily with business systems Infor M3, Microsoft Dynamics AX and SAP ERP. With approximately 525 employees in more than 14 countries worldwide, iStone offers market-leading best of breed solutions in Business Intelligence, CRM and ecommerce. A wide selection of products, specialist expertise in every product and service offered, and transparency and responsibility in its relationships with clients allows the company to provide long-term and sustainable IT solutions.Formed in 2006 by “Rego Konsulter”, this international business and IT consultancy is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. iStone guides its clients to the best business support through its in-depth knowledge of clients, sectors and systems. With its best-of-breed solutions and accountable approach, iStone offers a constructive partnership and high service levels. A history of commitmentSince its beginnings, iStone’s stated policy – the customer in focus – has been central to the company’s operations. When CEO & President Markus Jakobson took the company reins in 2007, it was with a clear mission to offer clients comprehensive solutions comprised of the best products on the market. “We supplement the market’s leading ERP systems with cutting-edge solutions in Business Intelligence, CRM, ecommerce and more. The goal was to form a group that compiles the best business solution for each client through our extensive client, sector and system expertise. As a result, we…
OpenX Appoints Andrew Buckman as New MD for EMEA
OpenX, a global leader in digital and mobile advertising technology, today announced the appointment of Andrew Buckman as Managing Director, EMEA. Buckman brings more than 18 years of experience in the ad tech industry and will lead the company’s EMEA operations, with a focus on strategic partnerships, marketing, sales and general operations. Based at OpenX’s London office, Buckman will be responsible for accelerating the adoption of the OpenX advertising platform throughout the region. More than 1,000 publishers and advertisers around the world use OpenX’s programmatic exchange technology to trade digital advertising inventory and more than 150 new companies in EMEA partnered with OpenX in 2014. OpenX’s technology allows publishers and advertisers to unify and manage direct, indirect and Real-Time Bidding (RTB) advertising within a single platform. Specifically, the OpenX platform integrates ad serving with an ad exchange that incorporates supply side platform technology and facilitates trillions of transactions annually. Prior to joining OpenX, Buckman was Chief Operating Officer for performance marketing company Tradedoubler. Under his leadership, Tradedoubler transformed in terms of profitability, scale and reputation. Buckman’s wide-ranging career has also included roles at Yahoo! as both Monetisation Director and European Product Director. At Yahoo!, he delivered several major European projects, including the cross-country deployment of a new advertiser platform and infrastructure. “We’re delighted to welcome Andrew to the OpenX team,” said Tim Cadogan, Chief Executive Officer, OpenX. “His extensive ad tech industry experience, and track record of delivering complex projects and driving productivity, made him an excellent choice for the role and we believe he will help us to capitalise…
Smartphones and 3D Printers Expected To Flourish In 2015
In 2015, the top three most influential technology items will be smart phones, tablets and 3D printers, according to a survey of consumers conducted for the IEEE – the largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence – by YouGov.Digital music devices, digital cameras and wearable technologies were considered the three technologies most likely to be redundant or unnecessary this year.The online survey, conducted in late December 2014, questioned more than two thousand adults in Great Britain to understand their perception of influential and redundant technologies in 2015.When asked - from a list of technologies that included laptops, e-readers and music streaming services - which, if any, would be significantly influential in 2015, 42 percent picked out smart phones, 37 percent tablets and nearly a third said 3D printers. Home automation also rated highly at 27 percent.From the same list of technologies respondents were asked which, if any, will be redundant/unnecessary this year.Digital music devices and digital cameras tied in joint top position at 16 percent. Wearables divided opinion with 19 percent picking them from the influential list and 11 percent from the redundant list – making this relatively new technology the third ranked redundant/unnecessary for this year.Respondents demonstrated a general appetite for technology overall with nearly a third of respondents believing none of the listed technologies will be redundant or unnecessary in 2015. On balance, respondents believed the electric car will also be influential this year, with 19 percent rating it so and only five percent believing it would be redundant/unnecessary.IEEE held similar research…
BT Agrees to Talks Over $19.5 Billion EE Mobile Deal
BT, the U.K. telecoms giant, has announced that it has entered into exclusive talks with Deutsche Telekom and Orange to acquire their mobile business EE, a move which is set to spark a wave of consolidation in the U.K. telecoms market. BT announced in a statement that key terms would include a purchase price of £12.5 billion ($19.5 billion). "The proposed acquisition would enable BT to accelerate its existing mobility strategy whereby customers will benefit from innovative, seamless services that combine the power of fibre broadband, Wi-Fi and 4G," the company said in a statement. "BT would own the UK's most advanced 4G network, giving it greater control in terms of future investment and product innovation." The exclusivity period would last several weeks, BT said in the statement, in which time the UK telecoms giant would complete due diligence and conclude negotiations. BT was also in negotiations with Telefonica over its mobile arm O2, which may now become the focus of other takeover deals. Consumers are increasingly interested in so-called "quad play" deals, offering television, internet, landline and mobile phone contracts in one package. In the U.K., Virgin is the only phone company currently offering these deals, but BT, the country's biggest telecoms company, is expected to start following the deal with Deutsche Telekom and Orange. SOURCE: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102267602
Iomart
Our Cloud, Your Way Writer Matt Bone Project Manager Dan Hester Founded in 1998, Iomart has grown to become one of the leading providers of cloud and managed hosting services in Europe, delivering the compute, storage, connectivity and security needed by businesses of all sizes to operate in the digital age we live in. Through its direct ownership of every layer of the cloud, iomart provides industry-leading 100% uptime Service Level Agreements to customers who include Pernod Ricard, Skyscanner, Stagecoach, Truck-Lite, and Liverpool FC. iomart owns and operates data centres across the United Kingdom, connected via an 1860km fast, high capacity fibre network, and has a series of international Points of Presence. It offers the full range of cloud services from bare metal through to private and hybrid cloud; cloud storage, backup and disaster recovery; Hosted Exchange; hosted desktop; business mail; connectivity and network security. From its headquarters in Scotland, iomart employs over 320 staff of whom over 100 provide 24/7/365 technical support to customers. Last year was iomart's most successful yet with revenues reaching £55.6m. Cloud Provider of Choice Angus MacSween, Iomart CEO Q: What does business want from the cloud? The companies who use iomart's services are primarily looking for peace of mind, a secure and stable service and a provider they can trust. Regardless of business size or budget, our clients want a service that is always on 24/7/365 days a year and can be adapted to their needs. One big focus is predictable pricing. In the same way you know what you…
COROMATIC
The evolution of critical facilities Coromatic Group is the Nordic market leader safeguarding business continuity and providing robust critical facilities centred on a simple concept: what does the customer need and how can we meet that need? Writer Matt Bone Project Manager Dan Hester With an interconnected society that is built on reliable access to online services and power, the solutions for meeting such demand in buildings 24 hours a day seven days a week have become critical to companies. Add the increase in businesses using cloud services and requiring larger data storage locations, The Nordic region has seen itself become the new hotbed for data centre and cloud solutions. With an abundance of land available for building upon and temperatures perfectly suited to running thermally dependant hardware, Sweden is the perfect backdrop for Coromatic's burgeoning services. Established back in 1992, Coromatic have been at the forefront of delivering reliable power and critical facilities in the Nordic region, thanks to the entrepreneurial mind set and family oriented values of managers and employees alike. Anders Tollsten, CEO of Coromatic, believes that being an early adopter of security and critical facilities put them in a strong position when the world kept getting more reliant on IT: "Back when the company was set up, the founders wanted to ensure that they offered customers in the IT sector something new and something that would really benefit the client's company. The emphasis was always on customer needs and addressing them. We quickly saw that designing and building secure data centres and…
Google should be broken up, say European MPs
The European Parliament has voted in favour of breaking Google up, as a solution to complaints that it favours its own services in search results.Politicians have no power to enforce a break-up, but the landmark vote sends a clear message to European regulators to get tough on the net giant.US politicians and trade bodies have voiced their dismay at the vote.The ultimate decision will rest with EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager.She has inherited the anti-competitive case lodged by Google's rivals in 2010.Google has around 90% market share for search in Europe and rivals asked the commission to investigate four areas:The manner in which Google displays its own vertical search services compared with other, competing productsHow Google copies content from other websites - such as restaurant reviews - to include within its own servicesThe exclusivity Google has to sell advertising around the search terms people useRestrictions on advertisers from moving their online ad campaigns to rival search enginesPredecessor Joaquin Almunia tried and failed to settle the case. A series of concessions made by Google were rejected, leading Mr Almunia to suggest that the only option was a fine. This could be up to $5bn.The Commission has never before ordered the break-up of any company, and many believe it is unlikely to do so now.But politicians are desperate to find a solution to the long-running anti-competitive dispute with Google.The motion brought by Andreas Schwab, a German Christian Democrat, and Spanish liberal Ramon Tremosa stated that the best way to resolve the row with the net giant was to…
Siemens Reports 9% Increase in Patent First Filings
In fiscal 2014, Siemens filed 4,300 patent applications – a year-over-year increase of nine percent. In addition, the company intends to boost investments in research and development (R&D) by around €400 million. In fiscal 2014, R&D expenditures totalled roughly €4 billion. Twelve Siemens researchers and developers who together account for more than 900 inventions and 842 granted individual patents played a leading role in the company’s success. They were honoured by Siemens as Inventors of the Year 2014 in Munich on December 3. “Innovation is a cornerstone of our Siemens Vision 2020,” says Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG. “Valuable creative ideas are the basis for our innovations. With their ingenuity and their drive to create new technology solutions, these 12 inventors and their 30,000 colleagues worldwide have played a key role in safeguarding our company’s technological future and market success.” Eight of the Siemens researchers honoured are from Germany; the others are from the U.S., Denmark and China. Their inventions range from wireless sensors that monitor rail-car position on the track to a new cooling system that enables wind power installations to generate more electricity to a gas turbine whose components have been recombined, thus making turbine production considerably more economical than in the past. Siemens has been presenting the Inventors of the Year award annually since 1995 to honour the organisation's outstanding researchers and developers whose inventions make major contributions to the company's success.
Oracle EMEA : Oracle In Europe
For most enterprises, and certainly most of Oracle's customers, a drive to simplify Information Technology (IT) is becoming of ever-increasing importance. Oracle has become one of the largest technology companies in the world on the strength of its extensive portfolio of software and hardware products to facilitate this simplification.
