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18 November, 2019
As enterprise customers focus on multi-cloud and edge environments as the next step of their digital transformations, George Malim reports from Huawei’s Eco-Connect Europe 2019 event in Paris, France, where Orange Business Services executives detailed how the business consumption of network and IT is changing. With presence in more than 200 countries and revenues of […]
29 October, 2019
Matthew Miskulin, the head of Ecosystem and Network Development at Telia Carrier, tells George Malim, the managing editor of VanillaPlus, that connectivity providers are carving out a larger footprint in the enterprise market by providing network and IT options that fit with enterprises’ specific requirements and integrate smoothly with their chosen cloud providers’ architectures.
08 October, 2019
Oliver Cantor is associate director of product strategy at Verizon and is focused on communicating the company’s software defined and virtualisation strategy to enterprise customers. The emergence of these technologies is enabling the telecoms industry’s transformation into a provider of digital infrastructure for enterprises. At the same time, enterprises are transforming through digitalisation and Verizon has developed products and services to support them in this agile, new world he tells VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim
19 September, 2019
With enterprises digital transformation initiatives starting to bear fruit, George Malim, caught up with Julia Fraser, the vice president of sales, UK and Ireland at CenturyLink, to find out her view of the transformation of the company and its portfolio of offerings and how it is helping customers to achieve their digital business goals.
19 July, 2019
BSS provider MDS Global has been acquired by Volaris Group, the operating group of Constellation Software, in a twelfth acquisition by the company in the Communications and Media vertical.
Nick Silverwood,
Plusnet Business
Enterprises are seen as a market under-served by communications service providers (CSPs) who could reap greater revenues by providing IT services in addition to connectivity. However, Nick Silverwood, the head of business at Plusnet, the provider of telephony and broadband services to the residential and small business market, says what small business customers really want is reliable, fixed price connections backed by high quality customer service. Moving to cloud or adopting unified communications are a long way from the minds of retailers who have just opened their first shop. They’ll wait until technologies are mature, he tells VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim
11 June, 2019
Enterprises no longer see the network in the same light as their air conditioning; something necessary but a cost to be minimised. Instead, the network is now seen as a critical enabler of their business with connectivity vital for new applications, processes, business models and, ultimately, their future success. Communications service providers (CSPs) are therefore targeting the enterprise market with IT services. VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim asks Kamal Bhadada, the president of Communications, Media and Information (CMI) services at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), whether CSPs can succeed here or whether enterprise IT will be the telecoms industry’s next big miss.
05 June, 2019
Jacqueline Teo is the chief digital officer of HGC Global Communications, the fixed line and ICT service provider that is extending from its roots serving the Hong Kong market to address international markets via its pan-Asian network capacity, including cable into China. Speaking at the TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World event in Nice, France, last month she tells George Malim how the company is innovating on all fronts to compete in the mature Hong Kong market, to develop further its newly acquired operations in Myanmar and to harness software defined network (SDN) technology to enable a more agile mode of operation.
09 May, 2019
As the lines between IT and telecoms services provision continue to blur, Mahesh Dalvi, the vice president of global IT solutions at managed services at CenturyLink, tells George Malim how service providers are moving way beyond connectivity to provide IT services and consulting that support customers’ digital transformations. Partnerships with specialists are a vital enabler of this.
25 April, 2019
Telecoms operators are circling the enterprise services market as they seek out new sources of revenue. The aim isn’t necessarily to become IT providers themselves but to assemble attractive packages of popular enterprise software alongside communications capacity and infrastructure.
