Archives : June 2010

Heart of the matter: how M2M will help save lives

published on 2010/06/30 by Stewart Baines

The joint venture between Orange and medical device manufacturer Sorin has been well publicized. However at the Orange Business Live event in Amsterdam last week, I learned a lot more about this fascinating project and how it can save lives of cardiac disease sufferers. Sorin is a specialist developer in treatments for cardiovascular disorders, with over 1 million patients treated with their equipment: with Orange, they have developed an M2M remote monitoring solution for cardiac patients....

Heart of the matter: how M2M will help save lives

Blade Network Technologies: "we do business with people for whom, when the network goes down, it will cost millions of dollars!"

published on 2010/06/25 by Yann Gourvennec

the network as a business enabler On June 3rd, 2010, at the end of our press trip in the Silicon Valley, we have had the opportunity to meet with Vikram Mehta, President and CEO of Blade Network Technologies (BNT), a four year-old company dedicated to "providing the interconnect fabric" behind cloud computing to put it in the words of our host who welcomed us at BNT's headquarters in Santa Clara, Ca. What is behind this concept of "interconnect fabric" is the provision of intelligent networking and storage application connectivity for virtualised data centres. what is keeping CIOs awake at night? What......

Blade Network Technologies: "we do business with people for whom, when the network goes down, it will cost millions of dollars!"

Highlights from Orange Business Live Amsterdam

published on 2010/06/23 by Anthony Plewes

This year's Orange Business Live in Amsterdam was notable for the big team of bloggers that attended the event, covering sessions on their own blogs, the Orange Business Live blog and Posterous. Now that a week has passed, I thought it would be a good idea to round up some of the content to give you a flavor of the plenaries, breakouts and some color from the event....

Highlights from Orange Business Live Amsterdam

Orange chief executive meets the social media team

published on 2010/06/18 by Stewart Baines

Vivek Badrinath, the new chief executive of Orange Business Services, dropped by the bloggers boiler room at Orange Business Live in Amsterdam to meet the team that's been blogging live from the event. He's been impressed by the buzz created by team that included Orange's own Rob Evans and Yann Gourvennec, and stars of Europe's social media blogosphere. Vivek shared with us his belief that social media and social computing is completely changing the business environment.photo by Benjamin Ellis......

Orange chief executive meets the social media team

Orange's cloud vision

published on 2010/06/18 by Stewart Baines

Didier Jaubert, senior vice president of global services at Orange Business Services, gave us an insight into how Orange sees cloud computing fitting into its portfolio. According to Jaubert, cloud will underpin many of the services that Orange currently offers - from service management portals, call center services for MNCs, collaboration applications and web security - all will be offered on a Cloud apps. He was keen to stress that Orange will not be in the business of developing mainstream enterprise applications (although it does application development in some key vertical markets). Orange's cloud vision involves bringing together partners from the entire world of IT (such as the recent announcement with VMWare, Cisco, IBM, HP) to create a completely cloud-ready infrastructure allowing apps to be accessed securely from any device, any where. ...