Clouds and Carriers

Last week, the OpenStack community released Grizzly -- the seventh release of its open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds. Grizzly has nearly 230 new features to...

NTT DOCOMO has developed cloud server management software that shortens the service response time of cloud services by up to 50%. DOCOMO said its source code has been provided to...

IBM opened a new SmartCloud for Social Business Data Center in Ehningen, Germany. IBM said the new facility will help businesses follow the lead of customers such as Arnold Clark,...

Zerto, a start-up based in Herzelia, Israel, closed a $13 million round of Series C financing for its hypervisor-based, disaster recovery and replication software for virtualized environments. The Zerto Virtual...

A redacted interview between Jim Carroll, Editor of Converge! Network Digest and Manish Gulyani, VP of Product Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent / Nuage Networks. Converge! Digest:  How do you describe the Nuage...

Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent spin-in venture focused on software defined networking (SDN), made its debut with the introduction of a Virtualized Services Platform(VSP) software suite aimed at automating data center...

NetSocket, a start-up based in Plano, Texas, raised $9.2 million in Series B funding for expansion of it network assurance expertise into SDN. NetSocket currently offers a Cloud Experience Manager...

Proximal Data, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $2 million in Series B funding for its server-side caching solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments. Proximal Data offers adaptive I/O...

KPN has selected VMTurbo's Operations Manager to automate and control cloud operations. VMTurbo is an intelligent workload management system that serves as an automated control plane for cloud and virtualized...

Amazon Web Services introduced "CloudHSM," a new service offering dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS Cloud.  The CloudHSM service, which is aimed at companies data security compliance...

Netflix is offering US$100,000 in prize money to developers to improve the features, usability, quality, reliability and security of cloud computing resources. The Netflix Cloud Prize is divided into 10...

VMware outlined its top three growth priorities: Redefining Infrastructure -- The Software-Defined Data Center  VMware is aiming to extend virtualization to all areas of the data center – network, security,...

Oracle agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nimbula, which is based in Redwood City, California, was founded by the...