Microsoft Annouces Azure Data Center Migration Tool

Microsoft announced an Azure Data Center Migration Solution (ADCMS) to help migrate cloud assets from one Azure data center to another. The software was developed by Persistent Systems in collaboration with the Microsoft Azure CAT team in Bangalore and released under Apache v2.0. Microsoft said the tool could be used to move assets to adds a new data center with lower latency, or to duplicate a current cloud deployment to a test deployment, and...

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Cisco Adds Check Point to ACI Partner List

Cisco has added the Check Point Next Generation Security Gateway to its ACI partner ecosystem. Essentially, this means that Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) controller, APIC, can configure the application network to include the insertion and provisioning of Check Point virtual and physical security gateways as it does other Layer 4-7 application services and security appliances. Cisco said the integration with Check Point Next Generation...

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Germany's Tele Columbus Readies 400 Mbps DOCSIS

Tele Columbus Group, the third largest German cable network operator, is preparing to launch a consumer broadband service with a top downlink speed of 400 Mbps. The company said its service will be launched in April 2015, starting in the region of Potsdam – in Brandenburg’s state capital, where a total of 40,000 households are connected to its city network. Tele Columbus features a hybrid glass-fiber coaxial structure with a FTTB (fiber-to-the-building)...

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BroadSoft Acquires Leonid Systems for UC Portal

BroadSoft has acquired Leonid Systems, hosted VoIP OSS provider based in Falls Church, Virginia.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Leonid has developed a purpose-built, intuitive web portal for BroadWorks service provider customers that allows enterprise IT administrators and end-users to simplify the configuration and management of their BroadWorks-based hosted Unified Communications services. Leonid’s web portal improves the overall navigation,...

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Citrix Acquires Sanbolic for Scale-out Storage Virtualization

Citrix has acquired Sanbolic, a start-up specializing in workload-oriented storage virtualization technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sanbolic, which is based in Waltham, Mass., developed a scale-out software architecture for optimizing the delivery of application-specific workloads, from any media type – SSD, Flash and hard drives in NAS, SAN, server-side and cloud deployments. Sanbolic allows customer deployments to be geo-distributed...

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Mellanox Supplies Open Ethernet to Monash University

Mellanox will supply its CloudX platform to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia The deployment, which is on Mellanox’s SwitchX-2 SX1036 Open Ethernet switches, ConnectX-3 NICs and LinkX cables will provide the fabric for Monash's new cloud data center. The cloud utilizes Mellanox end-to-end 10, 40, and 56Gb/s Ethernet solutions as part of a nationwide initiative to create an open and global cloud infrastructure. Mellanox said the university...

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C Spire Picks Centina for Service Assurance

C Spire, which maintains over 4,500 route miles of fiber optic cable infrastructure throughout Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida, will deploy Centina Systems' service assurance analytics and network performance management solution. C Spire will use Centina's NetOmnia suite for real-time, end-to-end network visibility for improved troubleshooting and problem resolution. C Spire's infrastructure includes 43 DWDM Spans, 95 OC-48...

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MongoDB Raises $80M for Next-gen Database

MongoDB, a start-up with headquarters in New York City and Palo Alto, has secured an additional $80 million in funding for its next-gen database. MongoDB stores data using a flexible document data model that is similar to JSON. Compared to most NoSQL databases, MongoDB provides comprehensive secondary indexes, including geospatial and text search, as well as extensive security and aggregation capabilities. MongoDB makes extensive use of RAM, providing...

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Next Gen ViaSat to Launch on SpaceX in 2016

SpaceX has been selected to launch ViaSat's next generation, high-capacity broadband satellite (ViaSat-2) in late summer 2016 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ViaSat-2, which is currently under construction by Boeing, will cover seven times the geographic area and offer twice the bandwidth economics advantage of ViaSat-1. Planned coverage includes North America, Central America, and the Caribbean basin. The...

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Radisys Supplies MRF for Nokia Networks' VoLTE/VoWiFi

Radisys is supplying its Media Resource Function (MRF) product family as the media processing foundation for Nokia Networks' Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) solution portfolio for standards-based IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployments. Specifically, Nokia Networks will utilize Radisys’ Virtualized MRF and high-capacity MPX-12000 Broadband MRF, built on Radisys’ T-Series Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform, to...

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ADVA Announces Nikos Theodosopoulos as Chairman

Nikos Theodosopoulos was elected as Chairman ADVA Optical Networking, succeeding Anthony Maher, following Mr. Maher's unexpected passing in November of the prior year. Nikos Theodosopoulos runs his own firm, NT Advisors LLC, serving clients in the technology, private equity and venture capital industries as an independent board director and consultant in the areas of corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, and investor positioning. Nikos...

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BTI Systems Cites Strong 2014 Sales

Privately-held BTI Systems, which supplies cloud and metro networking software and systems, reported its strongest annual revenue to date for 2014.  Some highlights: Metro cloud revenue approaching half of all revenue. 28% bookings growth in Q4 2014 vs. Q4 2013. 18% increase in annual revenue. 18 new strategic customer wins, including CyrusOne, Interxion, Pacnet (acquired by Telstra) and IPC. BTI cloud networking solutions are now deployed...

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