With the big strategic telco trends now clearly identified as Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks, IT companies like HP know that they're well placed to play a key role as the tectonic plates of IT and networking finally crunch together in a meaningful way. David Sliter, VP and GM of Communications, Media and Entertainment Solutions at HP tells Abe Nejad how HP can marry IT scale with its best of breed specialist products to deliver cost savings of up to 30 per cent.
Martyn Warwick talks with Larry Lenhart, President and CEO of CarrierIQ on the consumer experience and how carriers can enhance it by gathering data from the smartphone to form a picture from the 'outside in' - from the service consumer's perspective, rather than from the inside out (carrier's perspective).
Intel's John Woodget, global director for the telecoms sector, talks with Martyn Warwick about the renaissance of the network. For the past five years the focus of the industry has been on the shiny device and its apps. This year, says John, we're hearing much more about the network and its direction: concepts like Network Functions Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks are going to be where it's at.
John Roese, Chief Technology Officer at EMC on how the company has quietly but deliberately positioned itself in a number of networking and IT sweet-spots for the data centre and enterprise markets - things like virtualisation and big data analytics. Guess what? These are precisely the capabilities that mobile operators need as they look to the cloud and advanced data processing and analytics to spearhead their next business transformation. EMC, claims John, is delighted to welcome a new set of potential customers.
Martyn Warwick talks with John Dunne, the CTO of pioneering Irish start-up Intune, about how Software Defined Networks (SDN) will provide the means to simplify and control complex switches in the age of Big Data and will bring together the IT and telecoms worlds in ways never seen before.
Ranndy Kellogg, Vice President of Marketing & Product Development at Omron Healthcare, talks integration of consumer health care products and mobile device communications.
President Bill Clinton took a strong stance against the "I win, you lose" business mentality as he delivered a keynote speech at Dell World 2012.
TIA NOW speaks with two members of the TIA CTO Roundtable hosted by Dell in Austin, Texas.
