Clouds and Carriers

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the next version of Office saying that the suite has been completely-re-designed for the cloud and social interaction. Specifically, the new Office is available as...

It’s no secret that the core of modern mobile switching networks is based on the Internet Protocol.  What’s interesting is that simple network attacks that have been largely mitigated at...

Credit SK Telecom Investor Presentation, May 2012 SK Telecom expects to be among the first mobile operators worldwide to commercialize LTE-Advanced in its network during 2013. SK Telecom, in collaboration...

NYSE Euronext (NYX) will build and operate a Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) Access Center at the Equinix NY5 data center in Secaucus, New Jersey, providing customers within the Equinix...

Level 3 suffered a power failure at its data center in east London (Braham Street). The disruption lasted for nearly 5 hours and is reported to have taken dozens of...

MikroTik, a developer of routing platforms based in Latvia, has selected Tilera’s 64-bit TILE-Gx processor to power its new flagship Cloud Core Router (CCR) family. Tilera's highly integrated 64-bit TILE-Gx...

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has launched its "PowerON" cloud computing service from a state-of-the-art data center in Hong Kong. PowerON Compute is powered by VMWare. As with the PowerON Compute cloud...

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has deployed Juniper Networks' PTX Series Packet Transport Switch to create a new "SuperCore" network at the heart of one of the world's largest Internet...

Gartner is forecasting that worldwide IT spending will reach $3.6 trillion in 2012, a 3 percent increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion -- a slightly faster growth pace than...

Salesforce.com reported service disruption on its NA1/NA5/NA6/CS0,CS3,CS1,CS12 instances. The company blamed a power issue. Hosted CRM applications were reported down for a number of hours on Tuesday. http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/

Telefónica Digital, the company's new business division focused on cloud computing, mobile advertising, M2M and eHealth, reiterated its commitment to driving openness in mobile ecosystems and support for Mozilla’s HTML5...

Ixia agreed to acquire BreakingPoint Systems, which specializes in security testing, for $160 million in cash. BreakingPoint's Actionable Security Intelligence (ASI) provides global visibility into emerging threats, and actionable insight...

VMware will acquire DynamicOps, a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments – VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple...