Archives : Yann Gourvennec

Yann Gourvennec is Director, Internet and Digital media at Orange. He is in charge of the international operator's Corporate website and blogs and has been in marketing and innovation for over 25 years.

the future of networking, at the speed of light

published on 2012/04/16 by Yann Gourvennec

If you think that the world has gone faster recently, which in turn has led to more globalisation and the ability to access data and systems everywhere at any time (aka Cloud Computing), you haven't seen anything yet. For there is one thing which has plagued the world of real time IT for years on end: "latency". ...

the future of networking, at the speed of light

Hockey legend Mark Messier teaches great leadership lesson in Bratislava

published on 2011/05/31 by Yann Gourvennec

On May 10, 2011, the Orange Biznis Forum meeting took place in Bratislava, Slovakia. The guest speaker at that meeting was the much revered Canadian Ice Hockey legend Mark Messier, who is now retired. Mark had come to share with us some of his best tips with regard to team management and leadership inspired by the strong moments in his rich and long career. This business meeting had taken place the morning after we had witnessed the splendid victory of the Ice Hockey team of the Czech Republic, at the Orange arena in Bratislava [footage of the match available from......

Hockey legend Mark Messier teaches great leadership lesson in Bratislava

Rod Boothby: "with Joyent, service providers can deploy Clouds in a matter of weeks"

published on 2010/11/26 by Yann Gourvennec

The last visit of our November press tour in the Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated to Cloud deployments. Joyent is now planning to deploy in Europe, starting with France and the UK. A few important announcements were made at this meeting. We were greeted by Bryan Brown and Rod Boothby, respectively SVP Business Development and VP Global Business DevelopmentintroductionJoyent's mission statement is simple: "the best in class software for cloud operators". Joyent's main customers are public cloud operators. The company was founded in 2004 and the cloud offering was launched in 2006. In......

Rod Boothby: "with Joyent, service providers can deploy Clouds in a matter of weeks"

Emulex is driving convergence in the data centre

published on 2010/11/25 by Yann Gourvennec

Our last but one visit in the Silicon Valley on November 18 was with Emulex, and we were greeted by Steve Daheb, CMO & SVP business development and Shaun Walsh, VP Corporate Marketing backgrounder The Emulex vision is about the fact they realised that networks were about to converge for the first time: data networks used to be separated from storage networks. With the event of 10Gb ethernet we are seeing things converge. Emulex is a 30-year company founded in 1978, based in Costa Mesa, Calif. with 960 employees. Emulex works with HP, IBM and all other major companies. Emulex......

Emulex is driving convergence in the data centre

Blade Network Technologies: "IBM now has the network fabric to solve its clients’ pain-points in the data centre"

published on 2010/11/24 by Yann Gourvennec

Back in June 2010, we visited Blade Network Technologies, a Nortel spin-off which was doing exceptionally well in the data centre business by providing networking infrastructure and services within the data centre; a concept Vikram Mehta had described as being the "network fabric" of the data centre. We paid another visit to BNT on November 18 at their new premises in Santa Clara, but this time, BNT is no longer a start-up but an IBM company. So what has changed since then and what is in store for the market in that area?"Not much has changed in BNT Mehta said, apart from the......

Blade Network Technologies: "IBM now has the network fabric to solve its clients’ pain-points in the data centre"