Macquarie Telecom expands offerings

Macquarie Telecom, a supplier of ICT solutions for medium to large companies, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Australian subsidiary of NTT Com, a global telecommunications service provider, says SDA Asia.

According to Macquarie, this alliance is the next step in its next generation network strategy to extend its density and redundancy in Asia Pacific and further strengthen its position as the leading hybrid virtual network operator in the region.

“We are delighted to partner with Macquarie Telecom to assist them in providing the best-of-breed managed services, specifically to Asia Pacific customers,” said Peter Cheleski, sales and marketing director at NTT Com.

IBM is offering migration services and migration pricing for abandoned HP Identity Centre security software customers, says Market Watch.

HP entered the identity management space with three successive acquisitions since 2003, Baltimore Technologies, Trulogica and Trustgenix, but this year announced it was stopping direct business focus on identity management and steering customers to other providers.

In response to HP's discontinued identity management products, IBM is offering migration services through IBM Internet Security Systems to provide stranded HP customers the opportunity to convert from HP software to IBM's security offerings, such as IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.

Speaking at the Sixth Annual Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation Forum in Abuja, Gerald Ilukwe, MD of Galaxy BackBone, outlined the benefits of infrastructure sharing within the ICT sector, reports NetworkWorld.

"The overall investment in infrastructure is shared over several operators, and more robust infrastructure can be built," he declared.

Some of the benefits of infrastructure sharing include reduction in investment risk for operators and more efficient usage of investment capital, Ilukwe said. Supporting universal coverage objectives, infrastructure sharing also encourages competition by lowering barriers to entry and optimising typically scarce manpower, he added.