Ericsson

Ericsson | September 19, 2013

In order to stay ahead of the curve and enjoy new revenue streams from cloud services the mobile industry will need to invest substantially more than it does today, according to Ericsson’s chief technology officer Ulf Ewaldsson.Ewaldsson shared his thoughts on the intersect between cloud, mobile and broadband with a group of cloud gurus and tech specialists at the Structure: Europe conference in London Wednesday afternoon....

Ericsson | September 03, 2013

Swedish ICT technology and services provider Ericsson announced Monday that it is planning to construct three new research and development centres that will focus on delivering interoperability testing services for new technologies underpinning cloud services.Ericsson says that over the next five years it will be investing about SEK 7bn in two new research and development centres located in Stockholm and Linköping, Sweden, and a third in Montreal, Canada....

| May 02, 2014

The Cloud Foundry Foundation announced the addition of eight new members this week. Ericsson, NTT and Verizon are among those looking to contribute to and benefit from the open source platform as a service initiative, which is telling of how seriously telcos are looking at digging deeper into the cloud stack.Cloud Foundry, which earlier this year was spun off from Pivotal to form an independently governed foundation, added eight members to the fledging group. Along with the telecoms players, tho...

Ericsson | January 30, 2014

Swedish equipment vendor Ericsson is to boost investment in the part of the business that caters to cloud and SDN initiatives, the company’s CFO said after 2013 earnings were released.The strength of the Swedish Kroner had a significant impact as revenues came in at SEK227.4bn (£21.2bn) for the year and SEK67bn for the quarter, both flat year on year. The company turned a profit of SEK64.bn in the fourth quarter and SEK12.2bn for the year, up significantly due largely to the SEK3.3bn boost from ...