Clouds and Carriers

Singapore-based CloudFX Group announced plans to launch an open standards-based Cloud Services Brokerage platform. At launch, CloudSelect promises over 200 world class, fully automated cloud services which will enables enterprises...

Arista Networks and VMware announced a strategic relationship focused on network virtualization in the software-defined data center (SDDC).  This is the third phase of an ongoing collaboration between the two...

This week, Google rolled out a number of new features and tools for Google Compute Engine.  Some highlights: Introduced the ability to SSH directly from the Developers Console to a...

HP announced a leaner and lower-cost managed infrastructure-as-a-service solution. HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Lean allow organizations to reap the enterprise benefits of a managed VPC, such as...

Infinera has formed a new cloud networks group focused on the data center market and hired Stuart Elby, Ph.D., as senior vice president of cloud network strategy and technology. Prior...

NTT Communications (NTT Com) introduced a Data Federation feature for sharing, managing and updating office contact data among the multiple communication services offered via its Enterprise Cloud. Data Federation shares,...

 Cloudwatt, a new public cloud provider based in France, has deployed Juniper's open source OpenContrail SDN to build a sovereign and secure public cloud for its enterprise customers. The network...

The OpenCloud Project, which is sponsored by the CloudEthernet Forum, is on-track to launch a test bed later this year for end-to-end interoperability for cloud, datacenter and network services. Comcast,...

AT&T Labs, IBM Research and ACS (Telcordia), working under DARPA's CORONET program, have been developing a dynamic, cloud-to-cloud interconnection framework for very high-bandwidth, on-demand services. In a blog posting, AT&T's...

NTT Communications announced a partnership with the Philippines’ largest telecommunication company, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), to provide PLDT’s enterprise customers with NTT Com’s enterprise-grade, infrastructure as a service...

The California Department of Technology and IBM introduced CalCloud, a public-private partnership aimed at migrating government services into the cloud. IBM is supplying and managing the infrastructure, while the California...

During Q2, Amazon Web Services usage growth was close to 90% year-over-year, according to the company's newly released financial report.  Amazon highlighted the following AWS milestones: The AWS team grew...

AT&T has added Alcatel-Lucent and Fujitsu Network Communications to its User-Defined Network Cloud program, which aims to transform not only the company's infrastructure but how AT&T does business. The User-Defined...