Thursday, December 4, 2014

Blueprint: Building an IT Security Road Map to Avoid Cyber Attacks

by Matthew Goche Will you be (or have you been) the subject of a headline? The victim of a damaging cyber attack or intrusion? If you’ve avoided it, count yourself lucky. But if you’ve already been victimized, you aren’t alone. It appears that such attacks and data breaches are practically inevitable today. However, help is at hand. Organizations can build a strong IT security road map to counter – and more importantly, prevent – what was once an...

ON.Lab Releases its Open Source SDN Network Operating System

The Open Networking Lab, ON.Lab, and leading service providers, including AT&T, NTT Communications and key vendors, are releasing an open source SDN Open Network Operating System (ONOS) for Service Providers that enables agile service creation and deployment at scale on any hardware, including white boxes. ONOS will be available for download starting later today, Friday, Dec. 5. ONOS features a highly available, scalable SDN control plane featuring...

Cisco Teams with IBM on VersaStack Data Center Solution

Cisco and IBM are teaming up to offer an integrated data center solution that combines Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with the IBM Storwize storage system. The new VersaStack solution, which will be sold through business partners, is aimed at cloud, big data and analytics, and mobility deployments.  Specifically, the VersaStack solution includes the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), ACI-Ready Cisco 9000 Nexus switches, Cisco MDS...

Juniper and VMware Extend Collaboration

Juniper Networks and VMware have closely aligned their private cloud products and sales teams to support customers in the APAC region.  The companies said their increased collaboration will provide the following: Interoperable products, which are available in APAC today, to deliver smart forwarding across physical and virtual infrastructures and provide end-to-end visibility and management of physical and virtualized infrastructures from a...

HP and Alcatel-Lucent Expand Alliance

HP and Alcatel-Lucent are expanding their global alliance to include selected Alcatel-Lucent IP routing and optical products in HP's existing routing and storage portfolios. Specifically, HP Storage will extend its solutions between datacenters to provide joint HP and Alcatel-Lucent customers with fully validated end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. The companies have certified long distance synchronous, low-latency...

Brocade Partners With Mirantis on OpenStack

Brocade announced a partnership with Mirantis to provide cloud service providers with a new turnkey, OpenStack-based, on-demand data center solution. Mirantis, which is a start-up based in Mountain View, California, offers software and services for running production-grade OpenStack clouds. Its solution provides a visual interface as a single control plane for OpenStack clusters and enables automated hardware discovery and network verification. Brocade...

Cinia Plans Terabit-class Cable from Finland to Germany with ALU

Cinia Group (previously Corenet), a Finnish Government-owned venture, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a terabit-class undersea cable system linking Finland and Germany. The project, named Sea Lion, calls for the deployment of a new 100G system that will span more than 1,100 km from Helsinki in Finland, to the Rostock-Ribnitz area in Germany. It will have a design capacity of 15 Terabits per second (Tbps) and is expected to enter service in...

IBM and Docker Announce Strategic Partnership

IBM and Docker announced a strategic partnership. The Docker platform will make it easier for enterprises to build and run the next generation of applications on the IBM Cloud and on prem. The idea is to develop portable, distributed applications that are rapidly composed of discrete interoperable Docker containers, have a dynamic lifecycle, and can scale to run in concert anywhere from the developer’s laptop to hundreds of hosts in the cloud. IBM...

Biddding for AWS-3 Spectrum tops $40.7 Billion

After 49 rounds, bidding in the FCC's Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-3) auction has reached $40.7 billion. A total of 1,614 licenses total are up for auction, covering 65 MHz of spectrum in the 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780 MHz, and 2155-2180 MHz bands ("AWS-3" bands). The 1695-1710 MHz band is authorized for low-power mobile transmit (i.e., uplink) operations only. The 1755-1780 MHz frequencies in the paired 1755-1780/2155-2180 MHz band are authorized...