Clouds and Carriers

VMTurbo is rolling out a number of enhancement to its Operations Manager for software-defined control for cloud and virtualized environments.  The Operations Manager 4.0 uses an analytic engine to drive...

XO Communications' newly launched cloud service is being hosted from CoreSite's facilities in Northern Virginia and Los Angeles. XO is deploying at CoreSite's One Wilshire campus in Los Angeles, which...

Panzura, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $25 million in Series D funding for its cloud storage solution. Panzura offers a cloud-integrated storage system for enterprises with network...

IBM agreed to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, which operates 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Bloomberg valued the deal at about $2...

Amazon Web Services has expanded its identity federation capabilities to support web identity federation. AWS said this enables developers to create cloud-backed mobile apps that use public identity providers such...

Colt Technology Services announced "the largest cloud footprint in Europe" via its data centers in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. Colt is using a standardised orchestration layer...

A new CloudEthernet Forum has been established to address the specific issues of scaling and applying suitable Ethernet services to meet the stringent demands of delivering cloud services. The CloudEthernet...

Cloudscaling, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $10 million in Series B funding for its OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure system. The new funding round included Trinity Ventures and two new...

On May 21, VMware executives Pat Gelsinger and Bill Fathers will unveil a new cloud service that will seamlessly extend your data center to the cloud. http://www.vmware.com/now.html?scr=WWW_vCHS_US_HPHero_PatGelsinger In March 2013,...

Fujitsu announced a full suite of private, public and hybrid cloud services at this week's Tokyo International Forum.  The FUJITSU Cloud Initiative includes 10 new services (two IaaS, four PaaS,...

Level 3 Communications is introducing a Carrier Cloud Voice solution for CLECs, wireless carriers, cable multiple system operators (MSOs) and telcos. The service, which is offered in partnership with Alianza,...

Project Clearwater, an open-source IMS core initiative for the cloud, launched its website and opened its doors to software developers and systems integrators. Metaswitch Networks contributed the initial codebase for...

Fujitsu outlined an Intelligent Networking and Computing Architecture based on the principles of software defined networking (SDN) that aims to provide optimized control over three unique ICT domains: data centers,...