Clouds and Carriers

Cisco agreed to acquire Cloupia, a start-up focused on Cloud Automation and Management Software, for approximately $125 million in cash and retention-based incentives. Cloupia, which is based in Santa Clara,...

Telefónica Digital announced the launch of global Instant Servers, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering that delivers on-demand, high performance cloud computing optimised for mobile, enterprise, and M2M applications. The service initially will...

Amazon is now allowing customers of its Elastic Beanstalk Service (EBS) to provision up to 2,000 IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per second) per EBS volume, double the previous performance limit.  The...

AT&T introduced a free, consumer cloud service that lets users upload images and video to secure online storage and quickly share on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or e-mail. AT&T Locker is...

Nasuni, a start-up based in Natick, Mass., raised  $20 million in Series C funding for its enterprise cloud gateway. Nasuni provides a consolidated storage-as-a-service solution for distributed enterprises.  The solution brings...

ARM, Red Hat and Applied Micro announced a collaboration to develop a 64-bit server for cloud computing, data centers and enterprises. AppliedMicro X-Gene Server on a Chip, which is based on the  ARMv8...

Alcatel-Lucent is working with Citrix to accelerate the arrival of a new class of ‘carrier cloud’ solutions.  Specifically, Alcatel Lucent is delivering a "Citrix Ready" verified solution,  CloudBand Management System and...

Microsoft agreed to acquire StorSimple, a start-up developing Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed. StorSimple, which is based in Santa Clara, California, offers solutions that combine the data...

Dell is now selling an OpenStack-powered cloud appliance developed by Morphlabs that enables wholesale hosting companies to a private cloud service. The new Dell mCloud Helix is a PowerEdge C6220...

Cisco reports that its WebEx colloboration solution is generating 428,000 meetings per day -- this equates to 31 million attendees per month. http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1080161

Funambol  (pronounced Fu-NAHM-bol), a start-up offering white-label personal cloud solutions for mobile providers, announced $5.75 million in new funding. Funabol believes the market for personal clouds is transitioning from 'silos' such...

Colt, which operates 20 data centres (one in development) and a fiber network spanning 43,000km across 22 countries, has deployed a pan-European vCloud based on the new VMware vCloud Suite 5.1. The deployment, which is the...

AT&T and IBM announced a partnership to deliver secure, network-enabled cloud services. The service, which will launch early next year, will combine AT&T virtual private networking and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud...