Violin Memory Acquires GridIron for Acceleration and Caching

Violin Memory, which specializes in high-performance flash-based storage systems, has acquired GridIron Systems, a start-up developing data center application acceleration technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. GridIron offers a TurboCharger Appliance to optimize the performance of application traffic and data workloads traversing the SAN fabric. The appliance uses patented SetRanking technology to manage all "high value" reads from the...

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CoreSite Builds Open Cloud Exchange in its Data Centers

CoreSite launched an Open Cloud Exchange to help its data center customers to connect directly to the cloud service providers of their choice. The CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange is available immediately in seven of CoreSite's North American data center campuses including Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, New York, Northern Virginia, Boston, and Washington, DC. CoreSite's partners in providing initial Open Cloud Exchange services include: CENX,...

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Taiwan Strait Express-1 Cable Links Mainland China and Taiwan

Taiwan Strait Express-1 (TSE-1), the first, direct undersea fiber cable between Taiwan and mainland China, has entered service.  The submarine cable spans 270 km between Tamsui, Taiwan and Fuzhou, Fujian Province,  China.  Partnets include Taiwan’s Far EasTone, Taiwan Mobile, Chunghwa Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom. http://www.cht.com....

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Dialog to Launch LTE TDD in Sri Lanka with Huawei

Dialog Broadband Networks (DBN) has launched an LTE TDD network in Sri Lanka using equipment from Huawei. The network has been activated in the capital Colombo, with an extension across wider Sri Lanka expected soon. DBN has deployed Huawei's end-to-end solutions for RAN and EPC bundled with Huawei application software and customer-provided equipment (CPE). Huawei aslo noted that Dialog's LTE TDD network is set to provide the world's first commercial...

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Tail-f Supplies Configuration and Automation Software for Pulsecom's Ethernet Line

Pulsecom has licensed Tail-f Systems’ multi-vendor configuration management and network automation software to develop its carrier-class Element Management System (EMS) for its SuperG family of Access and Network Interface Device (NID) products. Tail-f’s NCS  is a network abstraction layer designed to accelerate EMS platform development.  Key features include automated service provisioning and transaction-safe configuration management...

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