Clouds and Carriers

Avere Systems, a start-up based in Pittsburgh, PA, raised an additional $20 million in venture financing for its enterprise storage solutions for the hybrid cloud. Avere has developed a flexible,...

Amazon announced the 12th location where AWS Direct Connect is now available -- the Global Switch SY6 data center in Sydney, Australia.  This is the second Direct Connect location.  It...

Metaswitch Networks announced Project Calico -  an open source solution for virtual networking in hyper-scale, cloud data centers. Unlike networking alternatives such as VXLAN, GRE and SDN-controlled flows, Project Calico...

Box announced a $150 million investment from TPG Growth and Coatue Management.  The company, which filed an S-1 registration statement in March with the S.E.C., said TPG Growth will also...

CTERA Networks, a start-up based in Petach Tikvah, Israel, announced a $25 million Series C funding round to accelerate its cloud storage services platform. CTERA's Cloud Storage Services Platform combine...

Interxion announced private connections to both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure from all of its 37 data centers across 11 countries. Private connections are now available from leading AWS...

Amazon Web Services announced the availability of T2 instances -- the lowest cost Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type to date. Target applications include web servers, developer environments,...

IBM 's SoftLayer group is opening a new data center in London this month. The new facility will have capacity for more than 15,000 physical servers and will offer the...

Orange Business Services will be adding Salesforce to its secure cloud hub, Business VPN Galerie. Launched in 2010, Business VPN Galerie is the world’s first hub linking Orange VPN customers...

Google introduced a number of new tools to help developers build applications and gain insight on data sets hosted on the Google Cloud Platform.  The new cloud capabilities include: Cloud...

Another shot in the online storage wars -- Google announced Drive for Work, a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, individual file sizes up to 5TB, advanced...

Equinix is utilizing Ciena’s 6500 platform in its metropolitan networks in the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific.  The deployment supports 100G connectivity to Service Provider and enterprise customers...

tw telecom is preparing to launch Business Ethernet connectivity directly to the new Equinix Cloud Exchange.  The carrier expects to be the first to provide Ethernet service in the Seattle...