Clouds and Carriers

Alcatel-Lucent is pursuing an enterprise-scale Software Defined Network (SDN) strategy that goes beyond offering basic awareness of the applications running on it to a network that can make automatic real-time...

Google cut the price of its standard Cloud Storage service by over 20% and announced a limited preview of Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage, which is an archival service with...

Bright House Networks, the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S., will acquire Telovations, a Tampa, Florida-based Cloud Communications provider that delivers businesses hosted voice solutions,...

Oncore IT, a cloud Managed Service Provider (cMSP), has deployed Brocade VDX 6710 and 6720 Data Center Switches and Brocade VCS Fabric technology at its Tier IV data centers in...

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...