Clouds and Carriers

Docker, Inc., the commercial sponsor of the Docker open source project, has acquired Orchard Laboratories, a software developer offering an application composition and orchestration tool for application containers.  Financial terms...

IBM will begin offering Infiniband networking to connect bare metal servers in its Softlayer data centers.  The new option enables very high-speed throughput and low latency between servers in a...

In its quarterly financial report, Microsoft highlighted surging revenue associated with cloud services, offset by declines by its recently acquired Nokia business.  Two highlights: Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers...

Microsoft announced six new ExpressRoute locations in the U.S. (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York and Seattle) and Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore), as well as new partnerships with Orange and IIJ....

Big Switch Networks unveiled its new flagship product -- Big Cloud Fabric, a switching fabric designed for hyperscale data centers powered by SDN software and bare metal switch hardware. The...

Interxion outlined plans for a Cloud Connect service linking enterprises, service providers (SPs), system integrators (SIs) and carriers to multiple clouds from within Interxion data centers. The idea is to...

San Francisco-based GoGrid introduced its "any cloud" Orchestration Engine Service for delivering complex applications across multiple public or private clouds as well as on-premise data centers. GoGrid has developed an...

by Kevin Vachon, COO of the MEF Increased enterprise agility and a dramatic boost to user productivity are promised by the latest wave of dynamic CE services now coming to...

Amazon Web Services introduced annual subscription plans for the 26 categories of infrastructure, developer tools, and business applications currently offered in the AWS Marketplace. The annual subscription, which offers a...

Box announced two new integrations with Microsoft Office 365 and removed storage limits for all customers of its Business plan. “The competition for business customers will no longer be about...

One year after acquiring Softlayer for $2 billion, IBM reported continued gains in its cloud leadership positions in terms of new enterprise customers and the launch of differentiated services. IBM...

Whirlpool is transitioning from an on-premise hosting environment to a globally integrated cloud model that combines IBM's Softlayer infrastructure with AT&T Netbond private network access. Whirlpool chose to deploy a...

Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems division has been appointed as primary reseller for Salesforce.com's CRM Platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, T-Systems will serve as data center provider for salesforce.com’s...