#MWC15 Preview - @SAP and Unlocking the Value of Context

SAP's Rick Costanzo gives a 30-second preview to one of the big themes of the upcoming Mobile World Congress - how to unlock value from the massive quantity of data on today's networks.  See SAP at Hall 6, booth 6A30  http://youtu.be/4PEG1d0WTps Got an idea to share from #MWC15?  Let us know.  Converge! Network Digest will be filming short videos on NFV, VoLTE, VoWiFI, Small Cells, HetNets, Mobile Analytics and...

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Nokia Advances its Telco Cloud Portfolio and Debuts Radio Cloud

At the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia Networks will be expanding its telco cloud portfolio by launching its Nokia Cloud Security Director, and announcing the commercial availability of its Nokia Cloud Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Nokia Cloud Network Director to orchestrate virtualized network functions like EPC and VoLTE. The expansion also includes fully virtualized Operations Support System (OSS) and Customer Experience Management...

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IBM Bets Big on Software-defined Storage

IBM plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years to develop next-generation technologies for software-defined storage. IBM intends to focus this investment on R&D of new cloud storage software, object storage and open standard technologies including OpenStack. The IBM Spectrum Storage portfolio, which already incorporates more than 700 patents held by the company, will be directed toward helping enterprises transform to a hybrid cloud...

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Napatech Debuts 2x100 Gbps Packet Analyzer

Napatech introduced a 2x100 Gbps throughput network analysis solution on PCIe boards and aimed at network operators needed to understand their network traffic at the highest levels. The Napatech 200G performance solution offer full, non-blocking packet capture and analysis with zero packet loss and low CPU load. To achieve 200 Gbps performance, Napatech combines two of its PCI-SIG® compliant NT100E3-1-PTP accelerators using a unique intelligent...

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Boingo Picks Procera's Virtual PacketLogic/V for its S.M.A.R.T. Wi-Fi

Boingo Wireless has installed a virtual CPE solution from Procera Networks to shape network traffic and apply granular profiles that deliver multiple classes of service as part of its S.M.A.R.T Network offering, which was introduced in September 2014. Boingo’s S.M.A.R.T network design – which stands for Secure, Multiplatform, Analytics-Driven, Responsive and Tiered – reimagines public Wi-Fi based on usage data that identified multiple classes of...

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Procera Hits 150 Gbps Layer-7 Performance on Path to Bare Metal NFV

Procera Networks announced a big jump forward toward bare metal performance for NFV running on Intel-based platforms. Procera has now demonstrated its PacketLogic/V virtualized software solution running at over 150 Gbps on Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 Family-based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms. Previously, Procera had reported performance tests of 40Gbps. "These performance results are groundbreaking," said James Brear, President and CEO...

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Cloudera Exceeds $100 Million in Annual Revenue for Enterprise Hadoop

Cloudera, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, disclosed that its unaudited annual revenue surpassed $100 million for its recently completed fiscal year.  Recurring subscription software revenue growth accelerated year over year to approximately 100%. In addition, total enterprise subscription software customers(4) grew by more than 85% to approximately 525; approximately 250 new logo customers were added during the year. Cloudera also...

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Xilinx and BEEcube Deliver 5G Prototyping Platform

Xilinx and BEEcube have teamed up to deliver the world's first millimeter wave (mmWave) prototyping platform solution for 5G. The solution consists of Xilinx's newest 256QAM 500MHz mmWave modem IP coupled with the BEEcube BEE7 baseband platform.  This provides a complete "out of the box" solution addressing the 60GHz backhaul market. The integrated BEEcube BEE7 baseband platform connects to two 60GHz wideband transceivers and phased-array antennas...

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Citrix Joins Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program

Citrix is an inaugural member of Microsoft's new Cloud Storage Partner Program. Citrix ShareFile is a secure enterprise file sync and sharing service that meets the mobility and collaboration needs of people and the data security requirements of enterprises. ShareFile enables customers to mobilize data and provides a single point of secure access across platforms, including network shares, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive...

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Cisco to Offer Professional Engineer Certification for IP Collaboration Solutions

Cisco is expanding its collaboration certification program for engineers to include IP Voice and Digital Video collaboration solutions. The Collaboration Certification portfolio will now include an associate level and professional level, offering a complete career path for collaboration, voice and video network engineers who want to enhance their skills to embrace the new way of working. Specifically, the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)...

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