BT Brings Ethernet to Major UK Data Centers

BT announced high-capacity Ethernet connectivity to three leading co-location data centers in the UK: TelecityGroup in Joule House, Manchester,and Equinix (LDN5) in Slough and a further one in Leeds. BT Wholesale’s data center PoP rollout began earlier this year and already included  Telehouse Europe North and the Global Switch1 data center in London, as well as one of the UK’s largest data centers in Newport, South Wales. The new data center...

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TierPoint Builds its Data Center Fleet with Acquisition of Xand

TierPoint, which operates 141,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space across 7 U.S. cities, announced its acquisition of Xand, a privately-held provider of colocation, cloud, disaster recovery and managed services with six data centers located in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Xand was owned by ABRY Partners.  Financial terms were not disclosed. The combined company will operate 13 highly-redundant, Tier...

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IBM Intros Cloud-based Data Services

IBM announced a new set of data services for the IBM Cloud: IBM DataWorks – a set of cloud-based data refinery services that shape, cleanse, match and secure data. The new services enable business users to find, use and contribute data for analysis; application developers to embed data services into new applications; and IT and data professionals to enable self-service data access and instill confidence to act on the data. IBM dashDB – a cloud-based...

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SwiftStack Raises $16 Million for OpenStack Swift Storage Controller

SwiftStack, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $16 million in Series B venture funding to support its vision of software­ defined storage for the cloud. SwiftStack leverages OpenStack's Swift storage project for massive storage scalability in enterprise networks. SwiftStack's software-defined storage controller orchestrates all aspects of the storage environment. SwiftStack Node installs on commodity storage hardware and connects back to...

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Microsoft Removes Storage Limits for Office 365 Users

Microsoft will begin offering unlimited OneDrive cloud storage at no additional cost to all Office 365 paid subscribers. The offer is being rolled out incrementally starting with Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers. In a blog posting, Microsoft's Chris Jones said that while the move to unlimited storage is an important milestone for cloud services,  he believes "the true value of cloud storage is only realized when it is tightly...

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T-Mobile US Posts Biggest Quarter So Far

T-Mobile US reported its biggest growth quarter to date -- 2.3 million total net customer additions with 1.8 million total branded net customer additions for the quarter, including branded postpaid net additions of 1.4 million and branded prepaid net additions of 411,000. The strong branded postpaid net addition performance resulted from continued momentum in phone gross additions, which were up 46% year-over-year. “Despite our competitors’ best...

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T-Mobile Continues Wideband LTE Rollout

T-Mobile activated its Wideband LTE spectrum throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing up to a 50% increase in speed to customers.  The carrier said its customers in the region are now averaging 21 Mbps, with observed peak rates of up to 90 Mbps. Customers are using about 2.5 GB of data per month. “We know Bay Area T-Mobile customers are going to notice and take advantage of the faster LTE speeds Wideband LTE provides,” said Neville Ray,...

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Sweden's Chalmers University Develops 140 GHz Transmitter at 40G

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a 140 GHz transmitter chip capable of a transmission rate of 40 Gbps. The transmitter device is implemented in indium phosphide and contains an I-Q modulator, a 3-stage amplifier, and a x3 frequency multiplier for the local oscillator. “We have designed circuits for signals at 140 Gigahertz, where we have a large bandwidth. In laboratory testing, we have achieved a transmission...

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PMC Posts Q3 Revenue of $135.5M, up 7%

PMC-Sierra reported net revenues in the third quarter of 2014 of $135.5 million, an increase of 7 percent from $126.8 million in the second quarter of 2014 and an increase of 6 percent, compared to $128.4 million in the third quarter of 2013. GAAP net income in the third quarter of 2014 totaled $5.5 million or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to a GAAP net loss in the second quarter of 2014 of $3.5 million or a $0.02 loss per share. “Our Storage...

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Mavenir Posts Q3 Sales of $34M Up 31% YoY

Mavenir Systems reported Q3 revenues of $34.1 million, an increase of 31% year-over-year and 2% quarter-over-quarter. GAAP net loss for the third quarter of 2014 was $5.8 million, compared to $4.5 million in the third quarter of 2013 and $3.9 million for the second quarter of 2014. “We are pleased with our achievement of continued growth and that we exceeded key financial milestones this quarter. The company is well positioned to take advantage...

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