Oracle Opens Up to OpenStack in a Big Way

Oracle announced plans to integrate OpenStack cloud management components into Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, Oracle Infrastructure as a Service, Oracle’s ZS3 Series, Axiom storage systems and StorageTek tape systems.  The company also intends to achieve OpenStack compatibility with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Oracle Storage Cloud Service. Oracle said its goal isto...

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AT&T Launches Gigapower Fiber Internet Service in Austin

AT&T launched its "GigaPower" all-fiber Internet network in Austin, Texas. The service features initial speeds of up to 300 Mbps, although AT&T expects to upgrade the performance to 1 Gbps + in 2014. “Our all-fiber network enables U-verse with GigaPower to give Austinites the fastest speeds available to consumers in the city,” said Dahna Hull, AT&T’s vice president and general manager for Austin. “With U-verse with GigaPower, our customers...

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JDSU to Acquire Network Instruments for $200 Million

JDSU agreed to acquire to acquire Network Instruments for $200 million in cash from Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm. The acquisition of Network Instruments will expand JDSU's Network and Service Enablement product portfolio with several enterprise products, including: Observer Monitoring Platform – Integrated performance monitoring that provides unique visibility into complex application and network operations. The Observer...

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Google Opens Data Centers in Taiwan and Singapore

Google announced the opening of two data centers serving the Asia-Pacific region:  Changhua County, Taiwan, and Singapore. The new data center is Changhua County, Taiwan is located on 15 hectares of land.  The facility represents a total long-term investment of US$600 million. It features a nighttime cooling and thermal energy storage system. The new data center in Singapore is located on 2.45 hectares of land in Jurong West and is Google's...

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Samsung Galaxy S 4 Supports Sprint Spark Carrier Aggregation

Sprint confirmed that it will offer a version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 its "Spark" enhanced LTE in the next few weeks. This enhances the current version of Galaxy S 4 with a design change supporting carrier aggregation of all three Sprint bands (800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz). Sprint Spark allows tri-band devices, like Galaxy S 4, to support active hand-off mode between 800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz and provide data session continuity as the devices move...

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MIOsoft Supplies App Cloud Platform to T-Systems

MIOsoft announced an $8 million agreement to supply its enterprise application cloud platform to T-Systems International (TSI). TSI will use MIOsoft's  MIOedge platform to provide mission-critical applications and services to Deutsche Telekom AG. TSI will deliver PaaS and SaaS services using a secure virtual private cloud. MIOsoft said TSI's services and applications under the agreement include ordering and billing processes for Deutsche...

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HP Integrates OpenStack into CloudSystem for Hybrid Networks

HP is making OpenStack central to its next-generation HP CloudSystem, which enables enterprise customers to set up and deploy a complete private cloud environment, while also enabling a hybrid approach that supports bursting to multiple public cloud platforms. HP CloudSystem will add bursting support for three new public clouds: Microsoft Windows Azure; platforms from Arsys, a European-based cloud computing provider; and SFR, a French telecommunications...

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Box Expands its Cloud Partner Programs

Box announced partnerships with leading systems integrators, including Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, Volo Solutions, Statêra, 360 Cloud Solutions, ASMGi and 7 Summits, to help companies drive more value from their cloud platform. “Our partner ecosystem is crucial to ensuring that businesses of all sizes across all geographies have the resources and expertise required to transition to Box’s content collaboration platform,” said Chris Penner, vice president...

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Telecom New Zealand Employs Huawei for LTE

Telecom New Zealand launch a new "Ultra Mobile" 4G LTE network in parts of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Huawei provided a convergent radio access network (RAN) technology solution for the network based on its SingleRAN technology.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Arthur Zhang, CEO of Huawei New Zealand, said Telecom's 4G network utilizes cutting-edge wireless technologies: "We have worked closely with Telecom to create a network...

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