IDC: Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure Spending to Grow 26% in '15

The total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) will grow by 26.4% in 2015 and will reach $33.4 billion, accounting for a third of all IT infrastructure spending, up from 28.1% in 2014, according to IDC's  Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. Private cloud IT infrastructure spending will grow by 16.8% year over year to $11.7 billion, while public cloud IT infrastructure spending will grow by...

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Ooma Readies for IPO with its Consumer & SMB Communications Platform

Ooma, a start-up that provides Internet-based telephony services based on a proprietary CPE device and cloud platform, has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. Ooma has applied to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OOMA. The company plans to offer 5 million shares at...

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Cisco Invests in 6WIND for its SDN/NFV Software

Cisco has made an investment in 6WIND, a high-performance networking software company based in France. The investment comes as part of Cisco's country digitization initiative announced in Paris last February to commit $100M to innovative French businesses. The announcement coincides with the visit between Cisco CEO John Chambers and CEO Designate Chuck Robbins, and French President Francois Hollande, in France this week. 6WIND's software enables...

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AMS-IX Extends its Bay Area Presence

The AMS-IX Bay Area Internet Exchange has established a presence at Hurricane Electric’s Fremont 2 data center. AMS-IX Bay Area is a neutral and independent Internet Exchange, distributed across four data centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. This platform is OIX certified and modeled after AMS-IX in Amsterdam, providing a professional, high-quality, non-blocking peering service for all types of IP traffic, from regular IP data to Voice over IP,...

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Allot Lands $8 Million in Contracts from Three New Tier-1 Mobile Operators

Allot Communications announced three strategic wins totaling approximately $8 million.  These include: A multi-million dollar order from a new Tier-1 mobile operator in Asia Pacific (APAC) for the Allot Service Gateway Tera and Allot ClearSee Network Analytics, to be integrated with its policy and charging systems for enabling data monetization. A multi-million dollar order from a new multinational, Tier-1, mobile operator based in Latin America....

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Intersil Intros Buck-Boost Regulator for Wearables

Intersil introduced a buck-boost switching regulator that enables efficient power management of system power supplies and peripherals such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, memory cards or LCD modules in connected devices, including wearables, smartphones, smart thermostats and point-of-sale devices.  The regulator supports single-cell Li-ion or Li-polymer batteries, or 2-cell alkaline, NiCd or NiMH batteries. Key features and specifications Ultra high...

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