Clouds and Carriers

In its Q4 financial report, Amazon reported that AWS segment sales increased 20% year-over-year to $21.4 billion. However, operating income dipped to $5.205 billion for the quarter, down 2% yoy....

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded a $223 million contract to Lumen Technologies to provide secure, mission-critical communications services to the U.S. Department of Defense. It was awarded...

Virgin Media O2, one of the UK’s largest fixed and mobile service providers with approximately 50 million online media connections, upgraded its IP core backbone network for 400G-enablement and 800G-readiness...

PacketFabric and Unitas Global have agreed to merge to become a larger Network as a Service (NaaS) platform.  PacketFabric helps businesses build new secure, private network fabrics to connect their...

Deutsche Telekom announced some major deployment milestones with its NIMS (Next Generation IP Multimedia Subsystem) project to ‘cloudify’ and automate the core of its IP-based voice telephony platform. More than...

Tech Mahindra has opened a delivery center for Google Cloud in Guadalajara, Mexico. The center will be dedicated to Google Cloud-centric solutions that enable customers to modernize infrastructure and manage...

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contracts to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Support Services, Microsoft, and Oracle.  JWCC is a multiple-award contract vehicle that...

Apple introduced three advanced security features to protect user data in the cloud:iMessage Contact Key Verification, allows users to verify they are communicating only with whom they intend. Security Keys for...

Lumen Technologies has partnered with Genesys to launch a cloud-based Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).Lumen Solutions for Contact Center – Genesys Cloud is an all-in-one contact center solution for...

Amazon Web Services officially opened Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, its second region in India.  The new Hyderabad facility offers three Availability Zones. Hyderabad, an important talent hub for IT and entrepreneus,...

Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have expanded their strategic relationship to help power the next generation of technology for the Department of Defense (DOD) in four critical areas:Classified Cloud Innovations: Microsoft’s...

CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, is among the first to offer cloud instances with NVIDIA HGX H100 supercomputing. NVIDIA claims its HGX H100 enables up to...

Microsoft reported Q3 revenue of $50.1 billion up 11% (up 16% in constant currency) compared to last year. Net income was $17.6 billion, a drop of 14% (down 8% in...