Clouds and Carriers

Microsoft experienced a multi-day outage last week impacting its Outlook.com, Calendar and certain SkyDrive services. In a status update, Microsoft attributed the outage to a failure in a caching service...

Google Cloud Storage has begun to automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge.   The company said the encryption is automatic, transparent and...

A new, CloudNFV vendor group has been established with the goal of developing a prototype based on the ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specifications Group (ISG) work. CloudNFV, which...

Oracle introduced its Virtual Compute Appliance, an integrated, “wire once” stack for the data center that integrates compute, network, and storage resources in a software-defined fabric.  It is designed for...

CloudPhysics, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced $10 million in Series B funding and released its SaaS offering, which automatically uncovers hidden operational hazards before problems emerge as...

Amazon Web Services introduced two new capabilities for its CloudFormation toolset for creating and managing a collection of related AWS resources in an orderly and predictable fashion.  AWS CloudFormation provides...

KIO Networks inaugurated two new data centers in Mexico. KIO/5.6 is a Tier IV facility located in the Santa Fe neighborhood of Mexico City. It offers approximately 65,000 sq/ft of...

Huawei introduced a new enterprise-class switch for supporting key industry trends in cloud computing, bring your own device (BYOD), software-defined network (SDN), internet of things (IoT), and big data related...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted clearance for Verizon's Converged Health Management, a remote patient-monitoring medical device that provides clinicians with access to up-to-date patient data from connected biometric...

IBM unveiled a number of major additions to its Flex System portfolio, combining the latest server technology with new virtualization, networking and management tools.  IBM said its goal with the...

Amartus, a developer of automated service delivery software based in Dublin, Ireland, introduced its Chameleon software-defined service orchestration (SDS) solution for on-demand network services.  Amartus said its Chameleon SDS software...

Procera Networks launched Virtualized PacketLogic solutions based on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) initiative. The company's Virtualized PacketLogic solution for intelligent policy enforcement will be...

How will network functions virtualisation (NVF) impact network intelligence and policy enforcement? NFV will be truly transformative, enabling far better subscriber-aware services, says James F. Brear, President and CEO of...