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La croissance du top 10 des ESN en 2019 s’est situé au-dessus du marché avec une croissance de +5,1% alors que le marché dans son ensemble a bénéficié d’une croissance de +4,6%.
SAPPHIRE NOW: resilience, profitability, and sustainability in difficult times
The coronavirus crisis forced SAP to hold the SAPPHIRE NOW customer show as a virtual event for the first time. And, as happens with novelties, it started with a failure, the streaming of Christian Klein's keynote did not work. SAP apologized to the many interested listeners who could not dial in and directed them to a video prepared in ...
Red Hat Summit 2020
This week PAC attended Red Hat’s annual summit 2020. As an online-only event running during the current crisis, the organizers were sensitive to the pressures on the ecosystem, but still highlighted several interesting new capabilities that make IT easier and more consistent across bare metal, public cloud, private cloud and edge.
COVID-19 and the push to hybrid cloud
In the last few weeks, all of our lives have been changed by the coronavirus pandemic. This blog considers the impact on the world of work, focusing on how the pandemic is driving increased adoption of hybrid cloud services.
Covid-19, un événement inédit, un impact conséquent sur le marché IT
La très rapide propagation actuelle du coronavirus et les effets induits sur la vie publique changeant quotidiennement, il est difficile d'évaluer de manière définitive les effets de la crise sur l'économie mondiale et française. Voici une première approximation.
Quantum-resilient encryption
In 2018, both the USA and the European Union pledged around 1 billion euros in investments for quantum computing, and so many concluded that quantum computing appears to be the new IT frontier. Is it the case? Quantum computing uses quantum proprieties to bypass silicon-based limitations in computing capacities. Calculations are made at ...
CxO 2019 – Investment Priorities – Cloud Computing
The CxO 2019 survey results reflect a very competitive landscape in which companies are facing many challenges and looking to both cut costs by improving operational efficiency and reach new customers to boost their revenue streams. Overall, the companies are mostly aware of the benefits the cloud can offer in addressing challenges and most ...
Equinix acquires Packet, adding bare metal servers to the mix
Last month Equinix shared the news that it has acquired Packet, a specialist in bare metal provisioning. This holds the promise of adding remote server provisioning and management to Equinix's platfom, an exciting opportunity that we discuss in this post.
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (11) – Trend 10: Agile and DevOps boost flexibility
teknowlogy | PAC expects significant growth in demand in the areas of DevOps and agile consulting with regard to IT and the business side, their cooperation in project definition, and the necessary adaptations and corresponding environments. For more information on how Agile and DevOps boost flexibility read Christophe Chalon´s latest blog.
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (11) – Trend 10: Agile und DevOps steigern die Flexibilität
teknowlogy | PAC erwartet in diesem Jahr eine deutliche Zunahme der Nachfrage nach Consulting im Bereich DevOps und Agile mit Blick auf IT und Business sowie deren Zusammenarbeit bei der Projektdefinition und bezüglich der erforderlichen Anpassungen und entsprechenden Umgebungen. Mehr dazu, wie Agile und DevOps zu mehr Flexibilität beitragen ...
NTT Ltd. eröffnet neuen Geschäftsbereich: Global Data Centers
NTT Ltd., eine Schwester von NTT Data und NTT Communications und eine Tochter von NTT Inc., ist ein Anbieter von Technologiedienstleistungen. Das Unternehmen bündelt zukünftig die weltweiten Leistungen von e-shelter, Gyron, Netmagic, NTT Indonesia Nexcenter, RagingWire und anderen Rechenzentrumsunternehmen in einem neuen Geschäftsbereich: ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (9) – Trend 8: Cloud-basierte Services revolutionieren Anwendungsentwicklung und bereitstellung
Kundenspezifische Software-Entwicklung hat in letzter Zeit dem IT-Gesamtmarkt zu lebhaftem Wachstum verholfen. Und selbst wenn ein zukünftiger Konjunktureinbruch die Investitionen abkühlen lässt, stehen die Unternehmen unter Druck, sich weiterzuentwickeln, um nicht gegenüber „digitaleren“ Konkurrenten an Boden zu verlieren. Die Nachfrage ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (9) – Trend 8: Cloud-based services revolutionize application development and deployment
Custom software development has recently given a boost to overall IT market growth. And even if a future economic downturn hampers investment, companies will still face pressure to further evolve in order not to lose ground to their more digital competitors. The demand for faster development and deployment of web-based, mobile, and ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (6) – Trend 5: Anwendungsplattformen der nächsten Generation bieten digitale Innovationen
Cloud-basierte Anwendungsplattformen werden zu Schrittmachern der Software-Industrie. Reine Cloud-Plattformanbieter wie Salesforce, Workday und ServiceNow sind ins Scheinwerferlicht gerückt, und dort werden sie auch bleiben. Die Plattformen der nächsten Generation ermöglichen eine schnelle Bereitstellung von Anwendungen und nutzen dabei die ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (6) – Trend 5: Next-gen app platforms embrace digital innovation
Cloud-based application platforms are becoming the pacemakers in the software industry. Pure cloud platform providers such as Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow have been getting a lot of attention, and this will continue and even intensify. Next-generation platforms allow for fast deployment of applications, taking advantage of the new ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (5) – Trend 4: Unternehmensanwendungen wandern in die Public Cloud
Public-Cloud-Infrastruktur ist bei Unternehmen weltweit heute gang und gäbe. 2020 werden wir viel häufiger beobachten, dass Firmen mit Unternehmensanwendungen Hyperscaler für den Betrieb ihrer erfolgskritischen Workloads nutzen. Google, Microsoft und Amazon Web Services werden Partnerschaften mit Anbietern von Geschäftsanwendungen eingehen, ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (5) – Trend 4: Enterprise applications move to the public cloud
Public cloud infrastructure has become commonplace for companies worldwide. What we will see much more in 2020 is customers of enterprise applications using hyperscalers to operate their mission-critical workloads. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services will partner with vendors of business applications, and more and more system ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (3) – Trend 2: Edge and 5G enable real-time IT locations
Two technologies will increasingly merge in 2020, pushing each other – edge computing and 5G campus networks. Both technologies have a common purpose, which is to combine on‑site compute power and/or high-speed and high-volume networks in order to create real-time IT locations where automation and the autonomy of complex systems become a ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (3) – Trend 2: Edge und 5G ermöglichen Echtzeit-IT-Standorte
Zwei Technologien werden 2020 immer mehr verschmelzen und sich gegenseitig vorantreiben – Edge Computing und 5G-Campusnetze. Beide Technologien haben einen gemeinsamen Zweck, nämlich Rechenleistung vor Ort mit volumenstarken Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetzen zu kombinieren, um Echtzeit-IT-Standorte zu schaffen, an denen...
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS makes a bold move into edge computing with Outposts
Edge computing helps overcome the main limitation of cloud services – latency, which is caused by the network. Minimizing network latency can be very critical for specific use cases in B2C, such as online gaming, and in B2B, especially around factory automation, connected workers (leveraging AR technology), and connected vehicles. AWS is ...
Multi-cloud strategies of large European companies
Most major organizations use cloud services intensively for IT infrastructure, application development, testing, and operation or rely on the increasingly comprehensive services offered by the large cloud platforms in areas such as machine learning, AI, and IoT. And most of them use more than one cloud platform – they rely on multi-cloud or ...