Clouds and Carriers

Box announced a $150 million investment from TPG Growth and Coatue Management.  The company, which filed an S-1 registration statement in March with the S.E.C., said TPG Growth will also...

CTERA Networks, a start-up based in Petach Tikvah, Israel, announced a $25 million Series C funding round to accelerate its cloud storage services platform. CTERA's Cloud Storage Services Platform combine...

Interxion announced private connections to both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure from all of its 37 data centers across 11 countries. Private connections are now available from leading AWS...

Amazon Web Services announced the availability of T2 instances -- the lowest cost Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type to date. Target applications include web servers, developer environments,...

IBM 's SoftLayer group is opening a new data center in London this month. The new facility will have capacity for more than 15,000 physical servers and will offer the...

Orange Business Services will be adding Salesforce to its secure cloud hub, Business VPN Galerie. Launched in 2010, Business VPN Galerie is the world’s first hub linking Orange VPN customers...

Google introduced a number of new tools to help developers build applications and gain insight on data sets hosted on the Google Cloud Platform.  The new cloud capabilities include: Cloud...

Another shot in the online storage wars -- Google announced Drive for Work, a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, individual file sizes up to 5TB, advanced...

Equinix is utilizing Ciena’s 6500 platform in its metropolitan networks in the United States, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific.  The deployment supports 100G connectivity to Service Provider and enterprise customers...

tw telecom is preparing to launch Business Ethernet connectivity directly to the new Equinix Cloud Exchange.  The carrier expects to be the first to provide Ethernet service in the Seattle...

Microsoft will extend its offer of 1 TB of OneDrive storage to all versions of Office 365, including the 5-person home version that costs $9.99 per month and the personal...

Rackspace Hosting announced offering bare-metal cloud servers that can be provisioned dynamically "as quickly as a VM." The Rackspace OnMetal Cloud Servers are API-driven, single-tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service servers designed for customers...

Puppet Labs announced $40 million in new funding from existing investors Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle Peak Partners, True Ventures and VMware. Puppet Labs, which develops...