Cloud Foundry Summit 2017 in Basel, Switzerland, on October 11-12, 2017

Posted on October 12,
2017 by Wolfgang Schwab

Cloud Foundry is one of the liveliest open source projects around today. It provides a comprehensive multi-cloud application platform as a service (PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The foundation was established in 2015 as an independent not-for-profit organization. The best-known software piece besides Cloud Foundry is BOSH, an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and the life-cycle management of large-scale distributed services.

Cornerstone is pushing employee experience with its HCM suites

Posted on October 09,
2017 by Claire-Marie de Vulliod

The provider of cloud-based solutions for human capital management has started out as a specialist in the field of learning, an area that is still key for its business. Now Cornerstone wants to grow with a more comprehensive HCM approach that comprises suites for employee performance, recruiting, learning and human resources management. Besides, it adds consumerization features to evolve the employee experience.

Vodafone: “a cloud that can” from a company with a plan

Posted on October 06,
2017 by Simon Abrahams

PAC recently attended a cloud briefing with Vodafone, to understand its strategy and direction on cloud where to date the company's initiatives have seemed far less visible than many of its competitors.  Vodafone is keen to challenge these perceptions, and the company’s vision of its future, known as “Gigabit Vodafone for the Gigabit Society”, comprises a hyper-connected world powered by IoT and enabled by optical networks, 5G cellular, and cloud. To deliver this vision, cloud has been prioritised within Vodafone, and the company has been busy creating new cloud partnerships