REAN Cloud scores DoD deal to accelerate cloud migration
Northern Virginia cloud systems integrator REAN Cloud announced last week it landed a five-year contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) potentially worth $950 million. As part of the deal, REAN Cloud will provide Pentagon...
Intel announces new Xeon chips
Intel recently premiered a new chip dubbed the Xeon D-2100 processor made for edge computing workloads.
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a way of extending cloud computing capabilities to customer devices that require low-latency and high-bandwidth. It has been heralded as...
Tech Mahindra and VMware combine solutions
Tech Mahindra and VMware recently announced a collaboration aimed at communication service providers (CSPs), which will focus on developing, marketing and deploying solutions that accelerate network transformation.
CSPs have been gradually virtualizing their networks in preparation for 5G and an...
TM Forum announces Open Digital Architecture (ODA) program
TM Forum, a nonprofit industry association for service providers and their suppliers in the telecom industry, premiered its ODA program today. The purpose of the program, according to TM Forum, is to replace traditional operational and business...
Juniper Networks and TIM sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
Italian mobile operator TIM and Juniper Networks are working together under a MoU on the research and development of cloud-oriented network infrastructure.
As part of the collaboration, the companies will experiment and test new network techniques to...
Following reports that Dell Technologies is evaluating a reverse merger with VMware, the latter company's CEO Pat Gelsinger on Friday commented on the evolving situation.
"We are not in a position to speculate on the outcome of Dell’s evaluation of potential business opportunities. Dell has...
Cisco launches open container platform for hybrid cloud deployments
Cisco is taking aim at the multi-cloud market with the introduction of an open and production-grade Cisco Container Platform. Announced at Cisco Live in Barcelona, the purpose of the platform is to help customers launch and...
Cisco and Microsoft announce new network practice
Cisco announced it is extending its partnership with Microsoft by creating a new network practice that brings Cisco Solution Support to Azure ExpressRoute.
The purpose of the partnership is to help customers address technical issues coupled to hybrid architectures....
CNCF announces 15th project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a non profit organization dedicated to the development of cloud native applications, announced it has voted to accept Rook as its 15th hosted project, following Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI,...
Dell reportedly flirting with making a VMware initial public offering (IPO)
CNBC sources report that Dell Technologies is considering a reverse merger with VMware in which the latter company would purchase the former parent company. Dell originally agreed to purchase EMC for $67 billion in...
The de facto standard for container orchestration
Kubernetes was crowned the de facto standard of container orchestration in 2017, with companies like Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker embracing the open source platform. According to the Portworx Annual Container Adoption survey that included insight...
Alphabet unveils new cyber security business
Google parent company Alphabet announced it is deploying a new security firm dubbed Chronicle, with the aim of helping businesses recognize and thwart cyber attacks. The company will leverage Google’s computing and storage infrastructure, as well as machine learning...
IBM and Mendix announce global reseller agreement
IBM and Mendix are joining forces in a global reseller agreement in an effort to bring cloud technologies to low-code environments. Under the deal, IBM will resell and support the Mendix platform on IBM Cloud.
Low-code refers to a...
Nokia to open three cloud collaboration hubs
In an effort to bolster its cloud initiative, Nokia announced it will open three new cloud collaboration hubs. One hub is currently open in Singapore, which will be followed by a hub in Irving, Texas in February and...
Lloyd’s, AIR release report explores economic impact of a major cloud service outage
A cyber security incident that takes a top three cloud provider offline for three to six days could cause anywhere between $6.9 to $14.7 billion in economic losses and between $1.5 and...
Cisco announces HyperFlex 3.0
Cisco announced updates to its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), version 3.0, in a push to ease businesses into a hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
While several companies are embracing the cloud as a means of fulfilling business objectives, several are not yet ready to...
Rise of the cloud
The cloud rose to new heights in 2017 as tech giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and a host of other vendors competed for market space. As we enter 2018, enterprises continue to look to the cloud to gain a...
HKA and ASN sign turnkey contract for trans-Pacific cable system
The Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) consortium and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) announced they have signed a turnkey contract to build a submarine cable network connecting the U.S. to Hong Kong spanning over 13,000 kilometers.
Dubbed the HKA...
AT&T and Equinix build on relationship
AT&T and Equinix announced they are strengthening their relationship by making AT&T’s Switched Ethernet Service with Network On-Demand available to businesses in Equinix International Business Exchange data centers.
AT&T and Equinix have been working together for over a decade. In...
AI research and development requires a "balanced" approach
Technology giant Google, a subsidiary of parent company Alphabet, is engaged in a wide range of research into applications for artificial intelligence (AI) that include machine translation to remove language barriers, improving healthcare by empowering doctors to...
IBM and Salesforce name each other preferred vendor
IBM and Salesforce announced they are building on their partnership by combining IBM Cloud and Watson services with Salesforce Quip and Salesforce Service Cloud Einstein.
As part of the collaboration, IBM will build IBM Watson Quip Live Apps,...
Nokia lands deal with Telia
Telia Company is adopting Nokia's cloud native packet core solution across the Nordics and Baltics, covering Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania. The move is part of a wider initiative by Telia to improve mobile broadband and manage mobile...
Google announces five new cloud computing regions and three submarine cables
Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its global infrastructure with the addition of three new submarine fiber-optic cables and five new cloud computing regions to be launched later this year.
The five new areas Google...
Microsoft outcompetes AWS in fourth quarter of 2017
While Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have both been deemed leaders in infrastructure-as-a-services (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) segments, the former is gaining a competitive edge over the latter, according to research from KeyBanc analysts cited by...
