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Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 25.8% year over year in the second quarter of 2017 (2Q17), reaching $12.3 billion, according to IDC’s updated Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker service. “The strength in public cloud growth continued at an […]
Carrier-1, which owns a wholesale colocation building in Dallas, has begun offering private, purpose-built, dedicated suites within its 106,866 square foot facility. Carrier-1 refers to its offering as a “data center within a data center” because the private suites are separated from the general colocation area. The Dallas-Fort Worth area is widely acknowledged as one […]
General Electric has named Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. The companies said that GE has been migrating thousands of its core applications to AWS in process that began in 2014. So far, more than 2,000 applications have been migrated to AWS, including several that leverage AWS’s […]
AT&T announced that it now has temporary cell sites operational in the following locations in Puerto Rico: Fajardo, San German, Ponce Cursillo, Manati, Cayey, Mayaguez Mesa, Ponce, Arecibo, Humacao, Rio Grande, and Aguadilla. Further deployments are planned in Yauco, Guayama, and Vega Alta. AT&T is currently carrying more than 9 million calls and 5 million […]
Citing uncertainty in demand from China, NeoPhotonic announced a set of restructuring actions, including a reduction in force, real estate consolidation, a write-down of inventory for certain programs and assets and a write-down of idle assets. NeoPhotonics also trimmed its financial outlook for the third quarter of 2017, saying revenue is now expected to be […]
Colt Technology Services is deploying Ciena’s 6500 Converged Packet Optical Platform as part of an upgrade to its core network assets in the Asia Pacific region. The deployment on the Colt IQ Network began in September 2017 and includes installations in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as help strengthen intercontinental connections into Europe. […]
There was another major cyber breach at the U.S. National Security Agency. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, an NSA employee accessed classified information using a personal computer at home that was running Kaspersky’s antivirus software. The incident reportedly occurred in 2015 and led to the cyber theft of sophisticated hacking tools […]
FogHorn Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced $30 million in Series B funding for its software stack designed for the industrial IoT (IIoT) edge computing segment. FogHorn has built a complex event processing (CEP) – driven edge analytics software for on-premises edge computing. The software has a very small footprint enabling it […]
The FCC will make available $76.9 million in emergency funding to help restore communications networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The action comes 2 weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the islands, knocking out nearly all communications. As of October 04, 2017, 86.3% of cell sites remain out of service. In the U.S. […]
Ekinops, a leading supplier of next-generation optical network equipment based in Lannion, France, completed its previously-announced acquisition of OneAccess France-based OneAccess, founded in 2001 and with around 350 staff, is a supplier of software and hardware platforms to telecom carriers and service providers serving large corporate and SME customers. The company claims nearly 130 telecom […]
The total number of wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & LTE) in India actually dipped slightly in July, from 1,186.84 million at the end of Jun-17 to 1,186.79 million at the end of Jul-17, according to the latest figures compiled by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) . The dip, which represents a monthly growth rate […]
Uniserver, a Netherlands-based cloud hosting provider, has deployed Cisco Virtual Topology System (VTS), a standards-based, open software-overlay management and provisioning system for network provisioning of its virtual and physical infrastructure. The goal is greater programmability and accelerated provisioning of its data center network fabric. Cisco said its Virtual Topology System brings increased simplicity and a […]
Mellanox Technologies announced its BlueField family of software-defined SmartNIC adapters, designed for scale-out server and storage applications. The new adapters leverage embedded ARM processor cores based on the company’s BlueField system-on-chip processors and accelerators in the network interface card (NIC). Key features of the BlueField intelligent adapters: 2 network ports of Ethernet or InfiniBand: 10G/25G, […]
