The OpenCloud Project, which is sponsored by the CloudEthernet Forum, is on-track to launch a test bed later this year for end-to-end interoperability for cloud, datacenter and network services. Comcast,...
AT&T Labs, IBM Research and ACS (Telcordia), working under DARPA's CORONET program, have been developing a dynamic, cloud-to-cloud interconnection framework for very high-bandwidth, on-demand services. In a blog posting, AT&T's...
NTT Communications announced a partnership with the Philippines’ largest telecommunication company, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), to provide PLDT’s enterprise customers with NTT Com’s enterprise-grade, infrastructure as a service...
The California Department of Technology and IBM introduced CalCloud, a public-private partnership aimed at migrating government services into the cloud. IBM is supplying and managing the infrastructure, while the California...
During Q2, Amazon Web Services usage growth was close to 90% year-over-year, according to the company's newly released financial report. Amazon highlighted the following AWS milestones: The AWS team grew...
AT&T has added Alcatel-Lucent and Fujitsu Network Communications to its User-Defined Network Cloud program, which aims to transform not only the company's infrastructure but how AT&T does business. The User-Defined...
Docker, Inc., the commercial sponsor of the Docker open source project, has acquired Orchard Laboratories, a software developer offering an application composition and orchestration tool for application containers. Financial terms...
IBM will begin offering Infiniband networking to connect bare metal servers in its Softlayer data centers. The new option enables very high-speed throughput and low latency between servers in a...
In its quarterly financial report, Microsoft highlighted surging revenue associated with cloud services, offset by declines by its recently acquired Nokia business. Two highlights: Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers...
Microsoft announced six new ExpressRoute locations in the U.S. (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York and Seattle) and Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore), as well as new partnerships with Orange and IIJ....
Big Switch Networks unveiled its new flagship product -- Big Cloud Fabric, a switching fabric designed for hyperscale data centers powered by SDN software and bare metal switch hardware. The...
Interxion outlined plans for a Cloud Connect service linking enterprises, service providers (SPs), system integrators (SIs) and carriers to multiple clouds from within Interxion data centers. The idea is to...
San Francisco-based GoGrid introduced its "any cloud" Orchestration Engine Service for delivering complex applications across multiple public or private clouds as well as on-premise data centers. GoGrid has developed an...
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