Verizon Announces Software Defined Networking Strategy.

Verizon Announces Software Defined Networking Strategy.

SDN Initiative Means Rapid Time-to-Market, Agile Network and Operational Efficiencies.

Verizon, working closely with a number of its key technology partners – Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks – announced today it is transforming its network by implementing a software defined network architecture, laying the groundwork for new innovative services and applications. This SDN-based architecture is designed to introduce new operational efficiencies and allow for the enablement of rapid and flexible service delivery to Verizon’s customers.

SDN is a new approach to designing, building and managing communications networks.

It enables network programmability leveraging a centralized controller and orchestrator to program network flows. This centralized network control will drive a number of key customer facing benefits, including:

• Elastic, scalable, network-wide service creation and near real-time service delivery.
• Operational agility via dynamic resource allocation and management as well as automation of network operations.

Verizon has a long history of driving significant technology shifts with support from its technology suppliers. Verizon was the first major carrier to deploy a large-scale fiber-to-the-home strategy; the first to launch a nationwide 3G network; and the first national carrier to broadly deploy LTE. Today’s announcement highlights Verizon’s ongoing efforts to change the way it designs, develops and manages its networks. 

To enable its network vision, Verizon and its technology vendors have co-authored a comprehensive SDN network architecture document, which includes all interface specifications and reference architectures plus requirements for both the control layer and forwarding box functions. This network architecture document will enable Verizon’s key technology partners to develop solutions to achieve the business and technical benefits of an SDN-enabled network.

Much of the foundational work required to deliver on Verizon’s next-generation network has been underway for several years. Verizon has created live lab environments in San Jose, California; Tampa, Florida; and Waltham, Massachusetts, and has commercial data center environments on both the East and West Coasts.

To learn how software defined networks are redefining enterprise IT, visit Verizon News & Insights.

MDS Software Officially Launches MDS RapidPay Invoice Scanning System

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

MDS Software Officially Launches MDS RapidPay Invoice Scanning System

This week, MDS Property Management Software launched their newest product, MDS RapidPay, marking the occasion with a heavily attended launch party at Heartland Brewery's Empire State Building location.

MDS RapidPay is an automated invoice processing and approval solution that drastically reduces the time and cost associated with entering, approving and retrieving paper invoices. This web based product takes advantage of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to perform data entry with minimal human intervention and completely automates the Accounts Payable process. After over two years of development and nine months of beta testing, MDS RapidPay has been refined into an easy to use and reliable workhorse.

"We learned a lot about OCR technology through the development of our check scanning system and we have applied that knowledge to the development of RapidPay. Analyzing and capturing information from vendor invoices is much more complex than pulling account information off of a check due to the inconsistencies and variability that exist across the wide array of invoice formats that property managers receive. In partnership with our beta testers, we have developed a system that has the ability to learn and get better and better as you use it. After about 60 days, we are seeing automated read rates that top 80% and that number only gets better over time," says Steven Friedberg, President and founder of MDS.

MDS Property Management Software is a privately owned company that has been providing property management software to the local New York market since 1982. Their core business is the development, implementation and support of products designed to achieve maximum efficiency for the New York based manager. A focus on the local market allows MDS to respond rapidly to changes in local law and market trends that cannot be matched by generic national software providers. For more information about MDS, visit them on the web at www.multidataservices.com.

RapidPay Invoice Scanning & Web Based Approval System MDS Rapid Pay is an automated invoice processing and approval solution that reduces the cost and hassle associated with manually entering, approving and retrieving paper invoices.  This web based product takes advantage of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to perform data entry with minimal human intervention while at the same time cutting down on costly mistakes and the time it takes to copy and retrieve invoices. Once entered, invoices can even be automatically routed to internal and external approvers using a robust, user definable workflow over the web.  Do you have a board president that  likes to see and approve every invoice over $5,000.00?  MDS RapidPay makes it easy  and efficient for both of you. Key Features Reduces the time spent manually entering invoices by over 50% Allows for rapid scale up of your operations without adding additional staff Increases your business intelligence through near instant visibility on all outstanding liabilities Eliminates storage, copying and retreival costs Captures images of invoices for easy retrieval and reduced auditing and reporting costs Records utility usage information automatically Routes invoices based on user definable workflows for approval from any location over the web Maintains approval audit trail with full annotation capabilities. Contact: Adam Friedberg  Tel. 888-325-8307  Email: adam@multidataservices.com SOURCE MDS Property Management Software

Google: Nexus S will come with chip and SW for mobile payments

WorldWideTech.  Francisco De Jesús.

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt showed off a yet-to-be-released phone on Monday with a special chip that allows consumers to quickly pay for items by tapping the phone against a special terminal.

Schmidt said support for the technology, dubbed Near Field Communications, will be integrated into the next version of its Android software, "Gingerbread", which he said will be introduced in a few weeks.

"One way to think about it is, this could replace your credit card," Schmidt said, speaking at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

Google had no immediate plans to develop any of its own mobile applications to take advantage of such payment capabilities, but Schmidt expected other companies to do so.

"My guess is that there are going to be 500 new startups in the mobile payment space as these platforms emerge," Schmidt said. He added that Google would partner with traditional credit card industry players, like payment processors, rather than compete with them.

While NFC technology has been available for years, interoperability with Google's Android software should make the technology more widespread. Google's Android was the second most popular smartphone operating system in the third quarter, according to industry research firm Gartner, behind Nokia's Symbian and ahead of Apple Inc's iOS software, which is used on the iPhone.

In a roundtable briefing with reporters, Schmidt said Google's ability to marry its smartphone software with Internet-based services enabled features like turn-by-turn driving directions and real-time foreign language translation, which distinguished it from rivals' offerings.

"We would argue that our platform is better for applications that are network-resident and that need that kind of power," Schmidt said.

Google, which controls roughly two-thirds of the Internet search market, is increasingly competing with Apple and with social networking giant Facebook.

Earlier on Monday, Facebook unveiled a revamped version of its messaging system that could make it increasingly competitive with Web-based email systems like Google's Gmail and Yahoo Inc's mail service.

Asked about Facebook's potential effect on Gmail, Schmidt said that additional competition would be beneficial, and chided the press for focusing too much on the competition between Google and other technology companies.

"You all are focused on the competition, as opposed to the fact that the market's getting larger," Schmidt said. "And there's no question that more entrants into communications technologies, mobile technologies and so forth, bring more people in."

Related post: 

Samsung Google Nexus- S pics and specifications

http://worldwidegadget.blogspot.com/2010/11/samsung-google-nexus-s-pics-and.html

A new HP. With a Software CEO.

A new HP  With a Software CEO.
Putting software executives on top of a company that has little in the way of software means there are big changes coming at HP. This can only work with an umbrella company structure, where each of the divisions are like small complete companies led by experts, otherwise these executives would likely create a Sun-like result. In an umbrella company, you can be more creative. Recall that Louis Gerstner, who came from RJR Nabisco, successfully turned IBM around because expertise in IBM’s business wasn’t critical there either, because that expertise exists strongly with the division heads.

HP, now armed with the knowledge of how Oracle was successfully turned around, and knowledge on how SAP was built, will be able to design a software entity from scratch with properties like 3Par at its core to address the market of today. I would expect a number of acquisitions, top executive changes (it would be unusual for Todd Bradley to remain given both his connection to Mark Hurd, and his heavily lobbied play to be HP CEO), and at least one divestiture (the printing and imaging division would appear to be more valuable outside of HP than inside, and the head of that division could easily run a complete company).

Apple isn’t the initial target of this new company, but Oracle is, and while it will likely take a number of years to build HP into something different, the company that results should be vastly more able to deal with emerging market opportunities than the one that exists today can. As far as the Palm-based tablet, it may be the first true cloud client designed against an enterprise-level back end. The fastest growing cloud opportunity is desktop virtualization, and of all of the big players, only HP has a new-age client they actually own.
This is going to get interesting.

"Software is how we can make sure that the various parts of our technology actually fit well together," Leo  Apotheker.

HP's new CEO hints that software will be priority

NEW YORK -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new CEO signaled Friday that expanding the company's software business will be a top priority.

HP announced the hiring of Leo Apotheker, the former head of business software maker SAP AG, late Thursday. On a conference call Friday morning, Apotheker called software the "glue" that holds together the different parts of the company.

"Software is how we can make sure that the various parts of our technology actually fit well together," he said.

HP has been trying to build on its personal computer and printer businesses by expanding into technology services, data storage and security.

Analysts have questioned the hiring of a CEO who resigned abruptly from his last job after less than two years in the position.

But the company defended its pick Friday, saying Apotheker was the only candidate offered the CEO job.
HP Director Robert Ryan pointed out that Apotheker helped SAP post 18 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth in software revenue between 2004 and 2009.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/01/AR2010100101054.html?wpisrc=nl_pmtech