Clouds and Carriers

Verizon announced an expansion of its Unified Communications & Collaboration as a Service (UCCaaS) solution, including the availability of Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms. Verizon UCCaaS is a Cisco Powered solution...

IBM inaugurated its newest SoftLayer cloud center in Sydney, Australia. The company launched its first Australian cloud center in Melbourne late last year. The Sydney cloud center offers the full...

Cisco and Microsoft are expanding their cloud and data center relationship to include a new platform to accelerate service delivery and streamline the journey to the Intercloud for cloud providers....

Juniper Networks is introducing a new line of spine switches for bringing physical and logical scale, performance and port density to cloud data centers. The new QFX10000 line, which builds...

Google introduced a Cloud Storage Nearline service with a 3-second response time SLA. Google Cloud Storage Nearline is priced at $0.01 per GB per month for data at rest.  Google...

Elastica, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $30 million in series B funding for its "Data Science Powered" Cloud Application Security solutions. Elastica continuously protects organizations’ sensitive data...

HP and Foxconn introduced a portfolio of basic, cost-focused and customizable compute platforms optimized for the Open Compute Project specifications as well as HP Helion OpenStack.  The companies formed a...

SingleHop, which provides hosted private clouds and managed hosting services, has acquired Server Intellect, a Microsoft gold certified provider of cloud server and managed hosting services. SingleHop’s enterprise-focused private cloud...

IBM SoftLayer will offer OpenPOWER-based bare metal servers as part of its portfolio of cloud-based services. The servers are aimed at data-intensive workloads on public and private clouds. To develop...

Tropo, a start-up based in Menlo Park, California, rolled out its platform to enable telcos and 3rd party developers to rapidly integrate traditional communications with popular cloud services and enterprise...

by Harsh Karmarkar, Director, Solutions Consultants, Alliances & Channels at Apcera Enterprises today are looking to hybrid cloud to achieve a range of goals: to cut costs; enable a more...

http://youtu.be/m0FST-mqHRg Mobile World Congress will showcase lots of innovation in radio access technologies, says Derek Collison, founder and CEO of Apcera. But once the flood of data arrives on the...

Mirantis and Google are working to integrate Kubernetes with OpenStack with the goal of letting developers deploy containers on OpenStack in minutes. Mirantis said this development work uses Murano, the...