Clouds and Carriers

Shenick Network Systems introduced a cloud-based test system that scales to four terabits of real, stateful service and application traffic while providing the ability to pinpoint issues right down to...

CloudPhysics, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding for its a data center analytics service. CloudPhysics, which was founded by former VMware...

Amazon Web Services introduced a new "Glacier" archival service priced at $0.01 per GB per month. Unlike Amazon's S3 cloud storage service, which is optimized for rapid access, Glacier is...

Enterprises continue to be enthusiastic about cloud computing services and report high levels of satisfaction with the effectiveness of their cloud investments in enabling flexibility and improved scalability but network...

Colt Technology Services has acquired ThinkGrid, a start-up offering tools for enabling cloud services with turnkey management, for an undisclosed sum. ThinkGrid's three key component offering consists of a state...

Rackspace announced the availability of Cloud Databases and Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack. Customers can now select from private, public or hybrid offerings and have the flexibility to deploy their...

Amazon Web Services introduced new features for customers looking to run high performance databases in the cloud. The company is now offering EBS Provisioned IOPS and EBS-Optimized instances for Amazon...

IBM introduced a network security appliance that delivers a more granular view of a company's security posture and a simplified security management interface. The IBM Security Network Protection XGS 5000...

Brisbane Airport, which handles more than 21 million passengers each year, has implemented a virtualized data center using technology from Cisco, EMC and VMware. The private cloud is built on...

Verizon Communications completed its previously announced acquisition of HUGHES Telematics Inc.(HTI), providing the company with much greater resources for the delivery of automotive and fleet telematics and machine-to-machine services. "Machine-to-machine...

Three major Internet services suffered apparently unrelated outages on Thursday, July 26th. Google Talk Windows Azure in Western Europe Twitter. http://status.twitter.com

Meraki has enhanced its MS-series cloud managed access switches with Layer 7 visibility capability, which provides a view into application traffic at the network edge. Meraki, who pioneered application visibility...

VMware agreed to acquire Nicira, a start-up focused on software-defined networking (SDN) for approximately $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million of assumed unvested equity awards. The goal of...