Clouds and Carriers

Cisco is rolling out new capabilities for its IOS XR network operating system that deliver cloud-scale networking for service providers and web companies. The goal is to deliver cloud applications...

Blue Coat Systems agreed to acquire Elastica, a start-up offering a cloud security system, for $280 million. Elastica, which is based in San Jose, California (Santana Row), develops a security...

Amazon announced plans to open an AWS region in Korea in early 2016. This will be the fifth AWS region in the Asia Pacific area, bringing the global total to...

IBM has acquired Gravitant, a privately held company that develops cloud-based software to enable organizations to easily plan, buy and manage, or “broker,” software and computing services from multiple suppliers...

ClearSky Data, a start-up based in Boston, announced $27 million in a Series B funding for its a global storage network ClearSky's global storage network manages the entire data lifecycle,...

Rackspace introduced a native container cluster service called Carina. Carina focuses on portability and ease-of-use for deploying a cluster of containerized applications. It leverages bare-metal performance, Docker Engine, native container...

Chunghwa Telecom is working with SAP to bring enterprise clients an even more comprehensive Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud service. The SAP Business One solution on Chunghwa Telecom's SaaS...

Amazon announced first availability of Direct Connect to its AWS GovCloud (US) region.  The first direct connect is from Equinix SV1 & SV5, San Francisco, CA. AWS Direct Connect is...

Global cloud traffic will more than quadruple by the end of 2019, from 2.1 to 8.6 zettabytes (ZB), outpacing the growth of total global data center traffic, which is forecast...

IBM plans to acquire The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The Weather Company is currently owned by...

Oracle unveiled a Data Visualization Cloud Service that lets users combine data from a variety of sources -- Oracle and other SaaS applications, on-premises systems, external sources and personal files...

IBM is launching a Spark-as-a-Service offering on Bluemix following a successful 13-week Beta program with more than 4,600 developers using it to build intelligent business and consumer apps fueled by...

Oracle and Intel announced a special partnership aimed at migrating customers running Oracle databases on Intel Power Systems to new platform based on Intel Xeon silicon. The companies said they...