Clouds and Carriers

Amazon Web Services announced two new edge locations for its CloudFront and Route 53 services - Taipei and Rio de Janeiro.  This is AWS' first edge location in Taiwan and...

Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced an hourly billing option for accessing Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware on the Verizon cloud infrastructure.  Customers can bring their own Oracle licenses to the...

SAP delivered strong revenue growth in 2013. Full year non-IFRS software and cloud subscription revenue increased 10% at constant currencies (5% at actual currencies to €5.3 billion). Non-IFRS software and...

IBM unveiled three new Watson services delivered over the cloud.  The company has established a new IBM Watson Group to build additional cognitive computing services, software and apps into the...

Peak (formerly PeakColo) secured $4 million in new funding for its enterprise-class IaaS cloud services for channel partners. Peak offers cloud computing to its large ecosystem of value-added resellers (VARS),...

Oracle agreed to acquire Corente, a start-up developing software-defined WAN virtualization technology, for an undisclosed sum.  Oracle already offers a LAN virtualization platform, so the deal extends its SDN portfolio...

IBM agreed to acquire Aspera, a start-up that offers software for accelerating data transfers.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Aspera claims its transfer technology can reduces transmission...

IBM announced a partnership with 21Vianet Group, a carrier-neutral Internet data center operator in China, to introduce a private cloud service in China. IBM will provide the physical point of...

Amazon Web Services announced plans to launch cloud services from Beijing, China in early 2014.  China Net Center and SINNET will provide the infrastructure, network services, and CDN services. In...

The ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specifications Group (ISG) has accepted the first proof-of-concept application covering expected use cases. CloudNFV, which was set-up by CIMI Corporation President Tom Nolle,...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) delivered a 59-page report to the European Commission discussing the role of standards in cloud computing. The report aims to serve as a detailed...

Dell has extended its Cloud Partner Program to include Microsoft's Windows Azure services. Under a newly expanded strategic alliance with Microsoft, Dell will offer customers a central point of solution...

Dell will promote the Google Cloud Platform and its compute, storage and application services to developers and businesses worldwide through the Dell Cloud Partner Program beginning next year. “Putting the...