Clouds and Carriers

New Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certifications are being added to Cisco's training program. The curricula focuses on the ability to connect the unconnected,...

EMC Corporation agreed to Virtustream, a start-up headquartered in Washington, D.C. with offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, London and Dubai, for approximately $1.2 billion in cash. Virtustream offers a consumption-based...

Apcera, a San Francisco-based start-up developing an IT platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables enterprises to securely and transparently control the allocation and consumption of IT resources on premise and in the...

IBM is rolling out an expanded suite of Cloud OpenStack Services that allow customers to integrate applications and data across hybrid clouds including public, dedicated and local cloud environments. The...

Google announced a set of price cuts for its cloud services, saying its Google Cloud Platform is now 40% less expensive for many workloads. Reduced prices are in effect for...

Internap announced a new bare-metal service on the OpenStack platform that provides a high-performance IaaS option for devops teams to deploy mission-critical applications and big-data workloads on OpenStack. Specifically, the...

A new "Snapshots" feature for Google Compute Engine Persistent Disks that can be used for quickly transferring data between VMs. Google said this method of moving large amounts of data...

One month after launching its X-Force Exchange, IBM has gained participation from more than 1,000 organizations across 16 industries. The X-Force Exchange provides open access to historical and real-time data...

NTT Communications announced three new SDN-powered capabilities for its Arcstar Universal One virtual private network (VPN) service, which is available in nearly 200 countries. By the end of May, NTT...

Citrix is launching a new cloud platform designed to simplify the on-demand delivery of a wide range of IT tools and services. The Citrix Workspace Cloud creates a new control...

CenturyLink inaugurated a new data center in central Washington, adding hydro-electric-powered data center services to its hybrid IT services portfolio. The data center, located in Moses Lake, Washington, will ultimately...

IBM rolled out a number of new services on its Bluemix cloud development platform. Bluemix, which was IBM launched last year as part of a $1 billion investment to boost...

The Defense Information Systems Agency has approved 23 cloud services to host Department of Defense (DoD) mission data up to Impact Level 2 in a cloud environment. DoD defines impact...