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Kevin Vachon, COO of MEF, provides a progress report on MEF 3.0, which is the global services framework for “defining, delivering, and certifying agile, assured, and orchestrated communication services across a global ecosystem of automated networks.” This week’s MEF Annual Members’ Meeting in Nashville was highly productive, featuring advancements in all of the following areas: […]
The market has really begun to embrace SD-WAN, says Kevin O’Toole, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Comcast Business, in order to cut their costs and unlock the power of new last-mile access networks. MEF is working on standards to support the evolution of SD-WAN. Filmed at the MEF Annual Members’ meeting in Nashville. See video: https://youtu.be/lRE6338Veaw
Intel reported record second quarter revenue of $17.0 billion, up 15 percent YoY and driven by strength across the business and customer demand for Intel platforms. Intel’s data-centric businesses grew 26 percent, approaching 50 percent of total revenue. PC-centric revenue was up 6 percent on strength in the commercial and enthusiast segments. “After five decades […]
In its quarterly report for the three months ended June 30, 2018, Amazon disclosed that AWS sales amounted to $6,105 for the period, up 49% from $4,100 a year earlier. Quarterly news highlights for AWS New enterprise customers announced during the quarter include Ryanair, Epic Games, zulily, 21st Century Fox, Verizon and its subsidiary Oath, […]
Nokia reported net sales in Q2 2018 of EUR 5.3 billion, down 5% compared to EUR 5.6 billion in Q2 2017. On a constant currency basis, net sales would have been down 1%. Non-IFRS diluted EPS in Q2 2018 was EUR 0.03, compared to EUR 0.08 in Q2 2017. Nokia’s Networks business net sales were […]
CyrusOne has purchased land and a newly-built, powered shell for an enterprise data center in Sterling, Virginia — its fourth data center campus in the region. The first phase of the facility should be ready in Q1 2019. It will eventually provide 33 megawatts of available power. The new data center brings CyrusOne’s total power […]
Alibaba Cloud launched its second cloud availability in Malaysia. The new zone complements Availability Zone A, which was launched last year. Alibaba Cloud also plans to open the first cloud-based Anti-DDoS Scrubbing Center in Malaysia in August. “I welcome Alibaba Cloud’s effort to further support and enhance Malaysia’s digital economy. The world moves ever closer […]
A new Open Community for Ethics in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (OCEANIS) has been formed to focus on standards as a means to address ethical matters in autonomous and intelligent systems. IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) are founding members. In addition to IEEE-SA, Founding Members include: Austrian Electrotechnical Association (OVE) Austrian Standards International […]
Spirent has been leading the way in providing companies with the tools they need to prepare for TLS v1.3. I had a chance to sit down with David DeSanto, Director, Products and Threat Research for Spirent to talk about the transition to TLS v1.3 and some of the hurdles that organizations face as they make […]
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is expanding its portfolio of managed database services and announcing new cloud partnerships. Here are the highlights: Oracle workloads are now supported in GCP SAP HANA workloads can run on GCP persistent-memory VMs Cloud Firestore launching for all users developing cloud-native apps. Cloud Firestore, which is a serverless, NoSQL document database, […]
euNetworks completed network investment projects in Ireland and the Netherlands. In Ireland, euNetworks’ dc connect solution is now enabled in Dublin, giving customers access to an interconnected network of near instant capacity between 15 data centres in the city. In the Netherlands, Hilversum has also been enabled with dc connect, supporting existing media clients in […]
Facebook reported weaker than expected financials and trimmed its guidance for the rest of the year. Daily average usage in Europe appears to have peaked perhaps as fallout from its troubles with user privacy, Some Facebook metrics for Q2: Daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 1.47 billion on average for June 2018, an increase […]
In terms of network services, customers want simplicity and agility to transform their own businesses. MEF 3.0 presents a massive opportunity to standardize the automation of services, says Aamir Hussain, EVP and CTO, CenturyLink. Filmed at the MEF Members’ Annual Meeting in Nashville. See video: https://youtu.be/jYUPE8pVVtM
