Huawei and China Unicom Cloud Company Sign SDN Pact

China Unicom Cloud Data Co. Ltd. and Huawei formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement on SDN. Under the pact, the companies will cooperate on SDN controllers. The strategic cooperation aims to explore SDN technology values for scale virtual tenant access, Virtual Machine on-demand deployment and migration, network centralized management, energy saving, and data center capability openness, etc., to further enhance China Unicom’s cloud service...

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HP Bets $50 Million on Hortonworks for Hadoop

HP is making a $50 million equity investment in Hortonworks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, that offers enterprise Apache Hadoop solutions. The companies said the investment builds on the reseller agreement put in place last year. The companies also plan to integrate the Hortonworks Data Platform with key HP technologies including the marquee HP HAVEn offering. http://hortonworks.com/blog/hp-hortonworks-deepen-relationship/ In March...

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Telefónica launches "Sinfonier" CyberSecurity Community

Telefónica introduced Sinfonier, a collaborative security working environment for developers and researchers to share cybersecurity intelligence. Telefónica said its goal with Sinfonier is to provice security researchers and intelligence analysts a free infrastructure so they can create and collaborate on security topologies. Sinfonier is made up of an open, collaborative community with a real-time framework (Apache-STORM) alongside an intuitive...

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Telstra to Decommission 2G Network in 2016

Telstra announced plans to permanently shut off its 2G (GSM) network by the end of 2016. In a blog posting, Mike Wright, Group Managing Director Networks at Telstra, writes that 2G traffic already accounts for less than 1% of the carrier's total network traffic.... and Telstra has not sold a 2G phone in years. http://exchange.telstra.com.au/2014/07/23/its-time-to-say-goodbye-old-fri...

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Amazon Web Services Usage Growing at 90% YoY Rate

During Q2, Amazon Web Services usage growth was close to 90% year-over-year, according to the company's newly released financial report.  Amazon highlighted the following AWS milestones: The AWS team grew by thousands of employees this past year, expanding AWS infrastructure, enterprise and public sector sales capabilities and allowing the team to innovate at an accelerating pace. AWS has made 250 significant service and feature releases year-to-date...

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New Construction in Silicon Valley - Moffett Place

New construction underway at Moffett Place, a campus of 6 eight story towers on 55 acres in Sunnyvale, California.  Located near Moffett Field, in close proximity to Lockheed Martin, Yahoo!, Juniper Networks, Infinera, Aruba Networks and many other Silicon Valley firms. July 24, 2...

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NextNav Raises $70 Million for Wireless Location Service

NextNav, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced $70 million dollar Series D financing for its wireless location service, which combines accurate, in-building horizontal positioning with floor-level height precision. NextNav's Metropolitan Beacon System ("MBS") positioning network. MBS provides reliable, accurate horizontal and vertical location services inside buildings and in urban areas where satellite-based GPS signals aren't available...

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Telefónica Picks Nokia for LTE Upgrade in Spain

Telefónica has selected Nokia Networks as key supplier for radio access equipment and professional services in Andalusia, Galicia, Castilla Leon and Levante over a period of three years. Financial terms were not disclosed. Specifically, Nokia Networks will upgrade Telefónica’s mobile network and implement 4G using its Single RAN Advanced solution, based on the compact, scalable Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station.  The company will also deliver...

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F5 BIG-IP App Services Now available for VMware vCloud Hybrid

F5 Networks' BIG-IP application services are now available for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.  This enables enterprise networks to extend application services they trust in their own data center to run in the cloud. Specifically, global application availability, automation, and cloud bursting are enhanced with F5 and VMware, bolstering disaster recovery and business continuity efforts. “Maintaining application availability and performance...

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Microsemi Acquires Mingoa for Ethernet OAM

Microsemi Corp. has acquired Cork, Ireland-based Mingoa, a provider of semiconductor IP for hardware accelerated Ethernet OAM and embedded tests. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mingoa, founded in 2009 as a private venture capital funded company, specializes in developing highly efficient and scalable embedded hardware/software for real time Ethernet operations, administration and monitoring (OAM) with IP level monitoring for SLA...

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