NTT Comm to Acquire Arkadin for Cloud Collaboration

NTT Communications will acquire a maximum 91.2% equity stake in Arkadin, which delivers SaaS conference-related solutions covering audio, web, video conferencing and unified communications services. Arkadin, which was launched in 2001 by CEO, Olivier de Puymorin, serves approximately 37,000 customers in 32 countries, including France, Germany, the UK, USA, Australia, China, Singapore and Japan. The company is based in Paris.  Arkadin was backed...

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Lockheed Martin Lands $1 Billion Cloud Hosting Contract with US Dept. of Interior

Lockheed Martin announced a contract valued at up to $1 billion, with options that extend through 2023, to provide cloud services for the U.S. Department of the Interior. Lockheed Martin has a team of industry partners to fulfill the contract. Under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services contract, Department of Interior data and applications currently housed in more than 400 data centers, rooms and closets will be moved to the cloud to increase...

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NextiraOne Sees Growth in European Data Center Transformations

Paris-based NextiraOne reported a 21% year-on-year growth in its data center business during the first six months of 2013. The privately-held company said sSuccess has come from a number of exciting virtualization and data center transformation projects across Europe, with particularly high growth rates achieved in the UK, Germany, France, Belux, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, and Spain. During the last six months NextiraOne has won many significant...

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Amdocs Wins Global Managed Services Contract with Vodafone

Amdocs and Vodafone have signed a five-year global managed services agreement for Vodafone's customer care and billing domain based on Amdocs software applications. Specifically, Vodafone selected Amdocs to be the managed services provider to deliver application development, operations and maintenance services.  Amdocs will establish a dedicated Shared Service and Development Center for Vodafone and this center will start with servicing Vodafone's...

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Lightower Fiber Networks Expands in Virginia

Lightower Fiber Networks, which operates a network spanning 20,000 route miles throughout the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Chicago metro markets, announced a major 1,500-mile expansion throughout Virginia and the Washington, D.C. metro region. In May 2012, Lightower began constructing over 1,100 route miles of high fiber-count network blanketing most of Virginia and into North Carolina. Additionally, Lightower is announcing the addition of almost...

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Infonetics: Booming Market for SMS/MMS Gateways

The SMS/MMS security gateway market worldwide totaled $41 million in 2012 and is forecast to explode to $363 million by 2017, according to a new report from Infonetics. "With nearly 10 trillion SMS/MMS messages being generated annually worldwide, SMS spam, mobile malware and SMS-generated multi-vector threats are an ever-increasing problem," observes Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics Research. "But many mobile carriers...

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FireEye Files for IPO

FireEye, which offers cyber security solutions, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. FireEye provides real-time, dynamic threat protection without the use of signatures to protect an organization across the primary threat vectors, including Web, email, and files and across the different stages of an attack life cycle. The core of the FireEye platform...

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ST-Ericsson Split Completed

Ericsson and STMicroelectronics completed the previously announced break-up of their joint venture, ST-Ericsson. Effective August 2, 2013 Ericsson has taken on the design, development and sales of the LTE multimode thin modem solutions, including 2G, 3G and 4G interoperability. In total, approximately 1,800 employees and contractors have joined Ericsson. ST has taken on the existing ST-Ericsson products, other than LTE multimode thin modems,...

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