Clouds and Carriers

Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco has attracted over 135,000 registrants (online and in-person), making it the largest cloud and software industry event so far.  This compares to about...

Dimension Data, which is a division of NTT, launched a set of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that includes hosting and application management services for independent software vendors (ISVs).  In a SaaS...

Salesforce.com and HP announced a strategic partnership in cloud computing. The companies will create a new "Salesforce Superpod" --  a dedicated instance in the Salesforce multi-tenant cloud, running on HP's...

At the AWS re:Invent! show in Las Vegas, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels announced the I2 instances are optimized for high performance random I/O.   AWS said the greater performance is achieved using...

IBM announced plans to make it Watson technology available as a development platform in the cloud. The idea is to enable software application developer to build a new generation of...

Sprint launched a Cloud Optimizer service that leverages caching technology to optimize bandwidth and performance for Microsoft Office 365 and Sharepoint applications.  The service lets users enjoy the collaboration functionality...

CipherCloud is now available for Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling users to encrypt data on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Redshift, AWS' petabyte-scale data warehouse service. The solution,...

TELMEX has launched a Private Enterprise Virtual Data Center service under a technology partnership with Cisco. The new TELMEX service provides clients with access to a whole network, security and...

Arista Networks introduced its 7300 and 7250 high-density switching platforms for cloud and enterprise data centers. Arista also introduces its "Single Tier Spline" architecture for simplifying data centers by simplifying...

Internap Network Services agreed to acquire hosting and cloud provider iWeb for approximately $145 million. Montreal-based iWeb provides on-demand server and cloud infrastructure to over 10,000 customers. The combination creates...

Juniper Networks introduced its MetaFabric architecture for next generation data centers with the goal of simplifying and accelerating the deployment and delivery of applications within and across multiple facilities. The...

Nokia Solutions and Networks is reinforcing its multi-stack approach to telco cloud to give operators full flexibility in their choice of cloud platforms.  The company confirmed that it is working...

IBM has been awarded U.S. Patent #8,539,597: Securing sensitive data for cloud computing.  The technique enables clients to use cloud-based services without risking the release of sensitive data into cloud...