Intel Launches "Powered by Intel Cloud Technology" Badge

Intel is launching a "Powered by Intel Cloud Technology" initiative to identify cloud service providers that are running Intel-based infrastructure. The Intel Cloud Technology program builds on the collaboration announced last September between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intel to communicate to customers the specifications, performance, quality, and security benefits of the Intel technology used in AWS instances. Intel announced the first...

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Internap: Performance Top Concern of Cloud Users

There is a significant gap in public cloud infrastructure concerns between the cloud-wise, organizations that are currently using cloud services, and the cloud-wary, organizations that are not using cloud services and have no near-term plans to do so, according to survey conducted by Internap Network Services. Some key findings: A majority of the cloud-wary (40%) cited cloud security as a concern, whereas only 15% of the cloud-wise cited security...

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Qualcomm Ventures Kicks Off QPrize 2014 for Promising Start-Ups

Qualcomm Ventures kicked off its QPrize 2014 international seed investment competition, which seeks to identify and fund the industry's next promising, early-stage technology companies. The QPrize competition is open to entrepreneurs across China, Europe, India, Israel, Korea, Latin America and North America. One finalist from each region will be awarded US$100,000 in convertible note financing from Qualcomm as seed funding and will be invited to...

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Alcatel-Lucent to Transfer 170 LTE Engineers

Alcatel-Lucent will transfer approximately 170 engineers specialized in 4G technology at its Orvault site located in the West of France into Altran’s telecoms and media teams. "We are very pleased to enter into this partnership project with Altran, the global leader in consulting and innovation, particularly since this will give our highly-qualified employees the opportunity to pursue their careers in the Nantes area.  We are sure that the...

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Huawei Posts 2013 Sales of US, up 11.6% YoY

Huawei reported preliminary 2013 global sales of between CNY 238 billion to CNY 240 billion (US$39.3 to US$39.6 billion) an increase of  about 8 percent (~11.6 percent in USD) year-on-year. Final results are usually published in April. Huawei is an employee-owned corporation. Huawei's operating profit for 2013 is expected to be in the range CNY 28.6 billion to CNY 29.4 billion. Cash flow from operating activities and the company’s asset to...

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DragonWave Signs Sales Partner for the Chinese Mobile Market.

DragonWave announced a sales agreement with Xi’an Potevio Communications, an ICT subsidiary company of China Potevio Corporation, which supplies antennas for many national and provincial networks such as those of China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, CNC, etc.  As part of the agreement Xi’an Potevio Communications, has made the first deliveries to a leading mobile services provider in mainland China of DragonWave's Horizon Compact all-outdoor...

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ADVA Cites Data Center Interconnect Customer in Europe

dm Drugstore Corporation is using ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 to transport mission-critical information between its data centers in Europe. FILIADATA, the IT subsidiary of dm Drugstore Corporation, operates several business continuity and high-availability solutions, including a high-end IBM Parallel Sysplex environment. The backbone of this environment is an optical transmission solution based on the ADVA FSP 3000, which has recently been...

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Harris Broadcast Completes Acquisition of Imagine Communications

Harris Broadcast completed its previously announced acquisition of Imagine Communications, a supplier of digital video solutions for content providers and system operators, for an undisclosed sum. Harris Broadcast said the acquisition enhances its solutions portfolio as its builds the first true "MultiService SDN", integrating sales, scheduling, automation, playout and delivery throughout both linear and non-linear content distribution networks....

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Skyera Adds Michael Klayko to Board

Skyera, a start-up specializing in enterprise solid state storage systems, announced that Michael Klayko, former CEO of Brocade Communications, has joined its Board of Directors.  Klayko had previously served the company as a member of its Advisory Board.  Klayko has more than 35 years of experience in the storage, computer and telecommunications industry and is currently CEO of MKA Capital LLC.  In addition to his heading up Brocade,...

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Ericsson Demos LTE-A Carrier Aggregation with Angola's Unitel

Angola’s leading telecommunications provider Unitel, has successfully tested LTE Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation of the 1800MHz and 900MHz spectrum bands on its commercial network.  The demonstration took place on December 18 in Luanda, Angola, in partnership with Ericsson. Amilcar Safeca, Deputy CEO of Unitel, says: “Unitel is always innovating to enhance the customer experience. With the global leap toward higher data access speeds...

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