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Intel reported 95 new performance world records for its Xeon Scalable processors as achieved in servers from major original equipment manufacturers, ranging from single-socket systems up to eight-socket systems. The new performance benchmarks were achieved in a variety of server platforms, ranging from general computing workloads running on single-socket systems to advanced technical computing and […]
Network Security Appliance market revenue grew nine percent year-over-year in 2Q 2018, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. “The Firewall –Enterprise segment again realized robust growth in 2Q 2018, increasing 15 percent year-over-year to record levels,” said Casey Quillin, Director at Dell’Oro Group. “Networks now require protection against numerous vulnerabilities, from securing connectivity […]
GTT Communications has acquired Access Point, a provider of communication services headquartered in Cary, North Carolina for $40 million. GTT paid $35 million in cash and 115,194 shares valued at $5 million. “Access Point’s strong client relationships in key vertical markets make it a compelling strategic fit for GTT,” said Rick Calder, GTT president and […]
Mr. Guo Ping has taken over the position of Rotating and Acting Chairman of Huawei. He will serve from October 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019 as the company’s top leader, and head the Board of Directors and its Executive Committee. Guo has worked at Huawei since 1988 and has served as R&D Project Manager, […]
IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) are launching an the Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS). The idea is to offer a process and define a series of marks by which organizations can seek certified A/IS products, systems and services. “It becomes more and more evident that consumers and citizens of […]
Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 48.4% year over year in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), reaching $15.4 billion, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. IDC also raised its forecast for total spending (vendor recognized […]
California governor Jerry Brown signed into law the Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018 (Senate Bill 822), which prohibits fixed and mobile Internet service providers from blocking lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, impairing or degrading lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of […]
SSE Enterprise Telecoms, which operates a 13,700km private telecoms network and an estate of 15 data centres across the UK, announced a fibre agreement with Three UK and O2 that will form the basis of enhanced fibre access in the country’s capital. The companies will intend to deploy fibre through the sewers of London to […]
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), which is a 40 Tbps, 6,165 km cable linking Angola to Brazil, is now on-stream and open for commercial traffic. SACS features four fibre pairs, with each fibre pair capable of transmitting 100 wavelengths at 100 Gbps. NEC served as lead contractor on the project. The SACS cable system […]
Facebook is committing to the open source community its LogDevice distributed data store for sequential data. LogDevice was originally developed and currently deployed within Facebook for a variety of workloads, including event streaming, replication pipelines, transaction logs, and deferred work journals. LogDevice comes with a command-line administration tool called LDShell. https://code.fb.com/core-data/open-sourcing-logdevice-a-distributed-data-store-for-sequential-data/
Gremlin, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced $18 million in Series B for its Failure-as-a-Service platform. Gremlin, which was founded by a former engineer at Amazon and Netflix, said it helps customers build more resilient system through a new engineering philosophy called chaos engineering. The new tool simulates how a system would react when […]
Zayo announced a contract to provide a high-bandwidth IP solution to a leading Mexican carrier. The solution will facilitate interconnection to U.S.-based content, gaming and webscale companies via Zayo’s data center at 1950 N. Stemmons in Dallas. Zayo operates a Tier 1 IP backbone delivering IP solutions in North American and European data centers and […]
Molex agreed to acquire the Connected Vehicle Solutions division of Laird Limited. Financial terms were not disclosed. Laird CVS specializes in the design, development and delivery of vehicle antenna systems, smart device integration and vehicle connectivity devices. Molex said the acquired solutions will add to its agile connected vehicle technology ecosystem, which feature a 10Gbps […]
