Clouds and Carriers

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...

Thinking Phone Networks, a start-up based in Cambridge. Mass., raised $16.5 million in venture funding for its enterprise cloud communication services. Thinking Phone Networks developed a multi-tenant cloud software platform that...

VMware has opened its vCloud Service Evaluation Beta to the public, enabling users to run their own tests of vCloud. VMware's vCloud allows users to migrateVMs on demand from their...

The European Commission outlined its ambition to drive European business and government productivity via cloud computing.  The EC believes cloud computing could deliver a net gain of 2.5 million new...

Brocade demonstrated service-oriented orchestration using OpenStack software and its Ethernet fabric technologies. Specifically, Brocade is leveraging a customized plug-in for OpenStack Quantum to build a prototype that delivers cloud management capabilities...

BT announced a series of enhancements to its unified communications portfolio with a range of new cloud-based services. BT One provides a single unified communications framework for devices, legacy systems and...

Huawei is collaborating with Yale University on Open Edge Cloud – an open content delivery infrastructure using data lockers. Huawei said the idea behind the Open Edge Cloud is to...

EMC announced broad technology support for Microsoft's new Server 2012 and its private cloud environments. EMC said it has tested its broad portfolio of storage platforms, automated management, data protection...

Riverbed has expanded its Whitewater cloud storage gateway portfolio with a larger model with four times the storage capacity and twice the RAM for larger backup data sets headed for...

ShoreTel is branding its new cloud-based communications solutions as "ShoreTel Sky".  The rebranding follows ShoreTel's acquisition of M5 Networks earlier this year. ShoreTel Mobility was the first application that was...