NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation), uno de los mayores proveedores globales de servicios de telecomunicaciones, y Dimension Data Holdings Plc (“Dimension Data”), proveedor especializado en soluciones y servicios de TI, han anunciado que han llegado a un acuerdo sobre la oferta de pago en efectivo que realizará NTT por todo el accionariado de Dimension Data, cifrada en 2.540 millones de euros. NTT tiene el compromiso irrevocable de los Consejeros de Dimension Data, Venfin DDHoldings Limited y Allan Gray, de aceptar, procurar la aceptación o recomendar su oferta de compra de Dimension Data; ambos Consejeros controlan el 52% de las acciones emitidas por Dimension Data...

Teradata University Network today announced the 2010 Business Intelligence Congress (BI) II where academic professionals and industry representatives will meet to discuss current academic research, teaching methods and industry demands for business intelligence, decision support and analytics.
The inaugural BI Congress, co-founded by Teradata University Network and the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group for Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management Systems, was held in December 2009. It revealed gaps between industry needs and current business intelligence teaching and research...

SAN FRANCISCO – June 29, 2010: Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing(https://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today announced that more than 10,000 of its customers have gone live on the GA release of Chatter in the first week of its availability. Chatter, the industry's first cloud-based enterprise social collaboration application and platform, unleashes the social enterprise and a new way to work for people around the world...

 EMC Corporation ), the world's leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of "big data" clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC's Information Infrastructure business...

02 Jul 2010: IBM  today announced the University of Bari (Universita di Bari) has selected an IBM System z mainframe as part of a cloud computing project to help local businesses, including fishermen, winemakers and trucking companies, adopt new business models.

The University of Bari is committed to solving community challenges through technology, providing a test-bed for software, devices, services, laboratories and other technical instrumentation. Delivering services through an IBM System z mainframe and cloud computing allows multiple entities to tap into heavy-duty computing power at minimal cost and lowers the barrier to help local businesses to benefit from this technology...