Clouds and Carriers

EarthLink announced the opening of a new data center in Dallas. EarthLink said it is also preparing to open three additional data centers in Chicago, San Jose and Miami in...

Amazon Web Services is currently storing two trillion objects in its S3 cloud storage service, double the number of just one year ago (it took the first six years of...

Intel introduced three platforms for software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). The product launch includes: The Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design, previously codenamed "Seacliff Trail,"...

Nuage Networks and Red Hat are collaborating to certify an OpenStack Quantum plug-in for Red Hat’s planned enterprise cloud management solution, Red Hat OpenStack. Quantum is an OpenStack project to...

Click here to see video:  http://youtu.be/cbnm1iraM_c Industry leaders share their views on where Software Defined Networking stands in the market today.  Is it still just hype or have real use...

Rackspace announced plans to build and run a linked global cloud network for large service providers. The Rackspace public cloud aims to be the largest OpenStack-based public cloud in the...

Netronome and Metaswitch disclosed the details of a unique architecture for OpenFlow gateways based on Netronome network flow processing technology and Metaswitch’s SDN-enabled control plane software. The companies are hosting...

Pluribus Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, is working with Red Hat to build orchestration and management capabilities in its Pluribus Netvisor Fabric-based network infrastructure using Red Hat...

A newly formed Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) ISG under ETSI will hold its second meeting on April 22-23 at Huawei's facility in Santa Clara, California. The NFV initiative came about...

A new OpenDaylight Projectbacked by leading network technology providers aims to ensure an open source framework for Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Founding members include Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, IBM,...

Last week, the OpenStack community released Grizzly -- the seventh release of its open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds. Grizzly has nearly 230 new features to...

NTT DOCOMO has developed cloud server management software that shortens the service response time of cloud services by up to 50%. DOCOMO said its source code has been provided to...

IBM opened a new SmartCloud for Social Business Data Center in Ehningen, Germany. IBM said the new facility will help businesses follow the lead of customers such as Arnold Clark,...