Verizon Opens Cloud Marketplace

Verizon officially opened its Cloud Marketplace featuring enterprise-class cloud based services from multiple third-party providers.  The marketplace, which is available to users of the Verizon Cloud, offers software-based cloud resources that are certified to operate in Verizon’s cloud environments. The storefront initially features pre-built cloud solutions from AppDynamics, Hitachi Data Systems, Juniper Networks, pfSense and Tervela. Juniper...

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CALIENT Develops OpenDayLight Controller for Optical Switches

CALIENT Technologies introduced a software controller to facilitate dynamic reconfiguration of the optical network layer to handle the "elephant flows" typically caused by data replications, storage migrations, and movements of big data sets in Hadoop distributed file systems. These elephant flows can overflow buffers on conventional packet switches. CALIENT said its new Optical Topology Management Controller, which built using the OpenDayLight...

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Huawei and Singtel to Launch 5G Innovation Program

SingTel and Huawei signed an MoU to launch a 5G Joint Innovation Program which will serve as a research hub for the advancement of 5G mobile broadband technologies. The parties shall endeavor to set up a 5G trial for SingTel’s customers. Huawei is working on a range of 5G technologies.  The company has recently disclosed a 128TRX Massive MIMO prototype. By providing higher resolution in angular domain, it supports 3D user location distribution,...

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Mellanox Intros Programmable Network Adapter with FPGA

Mellanox Technologies introduced its Programmable ConnectX-3 Pro adapter card with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) technology and aimed at modern data centers, public and private clouds, Web 2.0 infrastructures, telecommunication, and high-performance computing systems. The new adapter uses an on-board integrated FPGA and memory to enable users to bring their own customized applications such as IPSEC encryption, enhanced flow steering and Network...

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PacketSled Announces Cloud-based Threat Detection

PacketSled, a start-up based in San Diego, introduced its cloud-based threat detection and response platform as a service -- PacketSled Cloud. The service lets enterprises continuously monitor their networks for evolving threats, detect attacks, and investigate them in real-time. PacketSled said it deeply examines layers 3-7 of every session on the network in real time, determining the "who, what, when, where, and how" of each session it sees, and...

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IBM Patents Data Privacy Engine for Clouds

IBM has patented the design for a data privacy engine for protecting personal data as it is transferred between countries, including across private clouds. IBM's new patented Data Privacy Engine invention – U.S. Patent #8,695,101 – lets businesses aggregate international and organizational requirements for data transfers and apply them to individual projects. The company said its innovation lets organizations see what restrictions have been put...

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A New Competition Launches for Hot Cloud Start-ups

The Cloud Ethernet Forum has kicked off a competition to identify and support the hottest start-ups powered by cloud technologies.  This competition is for pre-IPO cloud companies, and provides two award categories: The Hottest Cloud Start-up -- preparing for early stage A-round funding The Hottest Pre-IPO Cloud Company -- for those companies at a more advanced B/C round stage. "We are throwing the door wide open to fresh, original thinking....

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CipherCloud Raises $50 Million for Cloud Encryption

CipherCloud, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced a $50 million round of financing for its cloud protection. CipherCloud provides cloud encryption and tokenization gateways to help enterprises to securely adopt cloud applications by eliminating concerns about data privacy, residency, security and regulatory compliance. The funding round was led by Transamerica Ventures joined by Delta Partners, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz...

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VS2 Promises New Approach to Cyber Security

Virtual Software Systems (VS2), a stealth-mode start-up based in Waltham, Mass., said it is on track to unveil an entirely new approach to security based on the founders' expertise in systems architecture, design and development. Set to demonstrate its groundbreaking technology in early 2015, VS2 will provide a missing piece of the puzzle in today's security infrastructure, filling the gap between current perimeter solutions (firewall,...

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Salesforce Revenues Up 29% YoY, 2015 Guidance Increased

Salesforce reported Q3 revenue of $1.38 billion, an increase of 29% year-over-year, and 30% in constant currency.  Subscription and support revenues were $1.29 billion, an increase of 28% year-over-year.  Professional services and other revenues were $95 million, an increase of 33% year-over-year.  There was a GAAP loss per share of ($0.06), and diluted non-GAAP earnings per share was $0.14. "Salesforce continues to be the fastest...

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Infonetics: Sales of Global Carrier WiFi Equipment to Soar

The global carrier WiFi equipment market (carrier WiFi access points and WiFi hotspot controllers) totaled $527 million in 2013, a gain of 9% from the previous year, driven in part by the deployment of small cells with integrated WiFi, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. Some highlights: In the first half of 2014 (1H14), carrier WiFi equipment revenue reached $286 million, up 6% from the second half of 2013 (2H13) 802.11ac access...

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Infonetics: 100G Transceiver Shipments on the Rise

Globally, 10G, 40G, and 100G transceiver revenue totaled $1.9 billion in 2013, up 18% from 2012, owing almost entirely to increased shipments of 100G WDM and 40G QSFP+, according to Infonetics Research. Major growth in the data center for 100GbE is on the horizon due to new silicon entering the market and lower-cost QSFP28 optics, including SR4 and much cheaper 2km LR4 optics,” says Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for carrier transport networking...

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