Clouds and Carriers

Verizon Enterprise Solutions' Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service is now delivering HP Helion Managed Cloud Service and the Salesforce Customer Success Platform. The connectivity features dynamic bandwidth allocation, strong security...

Orange Business Services has been selected to deploy and manage a private cloud for the European Space Agency. ESA operates from eight sites across Europe with 2,200 staff working in...

A new Cloud Foundry Foundation has been established with the aim of promoting a global standard for open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).  The effort will be managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative...

Accenture and Microsoft officially introduced the Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure, aiming to bring new capabilities, economics and innovation to the enterprise infrastructure and applications. “Our expanded relationship...

Microsoft announced general availability of its Azure Government cloud service. Key attributes include: Isolation – All aspects of Microsoft Azure Government’s hyperscale infrastructure, including the data center, hardware, network and...

IBM was awarded U.S. Patent #8,676,981 B2 "Routing Service Requests Based on Lowest Actual Cost within a Federated Virtual Service Cloud."  The company said the technique described by this patent...

3M is launching a 3D digital scanner service for the dental market using Orange Business Services' secure cloud platform in Europe. 3M and Orange Business Services designed an advanced solution...

CenturyLink has acquired DataGardens, a provider of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), for an undisclosed sum. DataGardens takes a cloud approach to mirror physical or virtual machine data. Its flagship software suite,...

HP introduced Haven OnDemand, a new web service that leverages its Helion cloud for delivering Big Data analytics.  The new cloud services lets customers analyze all forms of data, including...

Autodesk is introducing more cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tools.  A new  A360 Team capability, which will be available globally later this month, makes it easier to set-up and manage complex engineering...

Alcatel-Lucent introduced its Motive Security Guardian, a virtualized security solution for protecting service provider’s networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and mobile and home devices. The Motive Security Guardian can be used...

Comcast Business is building direct connections into cloud exchanges to give its Ethernet customers dynamic and scalable access to a range of cloud service providers. As part of this strategy,...

Telefónica announced support for Equinix's Cloud Exchange as a means to provide its enterprise customers with dedicated connectivity to multiple cloud service providers. Telefónica will offer this connectivity through its...