Clouds and Carriers

VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service will be commercially available in the U.S. starting in September. VMware vCloud allows users to migrate VMs on demand from their "internal cloud" of cooperating VMware...

Savvis and VMware announced a partnership focused on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, which allows users to migrate VMs on demand from their "internal cloud" of cooperating VMware hypervisors to a...

Brocade announced a new network virtualization gateway for bridging logical networks with physical resources using the VMware NSX network virtualization platform in order to provide a unified data center. The...

Trend Micro and VMware are collaborating on security for the software defined data center. The companies will integrate Trend Micro's Deep Security with VMware NSX platform for network virtualization.  Trend...

Gigamon announced the latest release of its GigaVUE H Series software, Version 3.1, offering enhancements to Flow Mapping as well as support for role-based access control and advanced workflows for...

Fusion-io introduced a software set for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) acceleration using flash in data center servers. The company said its ioVDI software eliminates complicated VDI configurations with a simple...

Rackspace is launching a Dedicated VMware vCenter Server service that helps enterprise customers to extend their VMware capacity off-premise. The service provides a Rackspace-hosted VMware environment that looks and feels...

Microsoft experienced a multi-day outage last week impacting its Outlook.com, Calendar and certain SkyDrive services. In a status update, Microsoft attributed the outage to a failure in a caching service...

Google Cloud Storage has begun to automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge.   The company said the encryption is automatic, transparent and...

A new, CloudNFV vendor group has been established with the goal of developing a prototype based on the ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specifications Group (ISG) work. CloudNFV, which...

Oracle introduced its Virtual Compute Appliance, an integrated, “wire once” stack for the data center that integrates compute, network, and storage resources in a software-defined fabric.  It is designed for...

CloudPhysics, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced $10 million in Series B funding and released its SaaS offering, which automatically uncovers hidden operational hazards before problems emerge as...

Amazon Web Services introduced two new capabilities for its CloudFormation toolset for creating and managing a collection of related AWS resources in an orderly and predictable fashion.  AWS CloudFormation provides...