Video: SDN Shifts Margins from Legacy Vendors to Channel

A market disruption caused by SDN is shifting margins from the legacy networking vendors to the channel, says Steve Garrison, VP of Marketing at Pica8.  By tearing apart the stack and letting customers pick the applications, OS, and bare metal hardware, you end up with a customized solution where the channel has a key role to play. Many customers might not have that expertise to pull that together, but this is where the margin shifts from...

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Mirantis Launches Unlocked Appliances for OpenStack

Mirantis introduced its Unlocked Appliances for OpenStack.  The single or multi-rack converged infrastructure appliances are pre-validated by Mirantis and pre-integrated by Certified Rack Partners Redapt, a cloud-focused systems integrator based in Redmond, Washington, is the first Certified Rack Partner to deliver Mirantis’ inaugural appliance, Mirantis Unlocked Appliance for Cloud Native Applications. In addition to building and certifying...

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Confluent Secures $24 Million for Apache Kafka Solutions

Confluent, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, raised $24 million in Series B funding for its live data streaming solutions based on Apache Kafka technology. The founders of Confluent created Apache Kafka while at LinkedIn to help cope with the very large-scale data ingestion and processing requirements of the business networking service. Apache Kafka, an open source technology created and maintained by the founders of Confluent, acts...

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CloudByte Targets Containerized Storage for Enterprises and Cloud SPs

CloudByte, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, cited rising demand for its secure, multi-tenant storage solution for virtual environments. The company is working with partners to deliver containerized storage for Enterprises and Cloud Service Providers. Recently, CloudByte announced that its business has accelerated, fueled by 12.5 PB plus ElastiStor Community Edition downloads worldwide. Also, the company is speeding up the next phase of...

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Orange Business Services and Tata Communications Announce NNI Agreement

Orange Business Services Tata Communications announced a Network-to-Network Interconnect (NNI) agreement that enable Orange Business Services to expand its network footprint in India. Specifically, the NNI will enable Orange to utilize Tata Communications’ 120 points of presence (PoPs), extending Orange Business Services’ reach to tier-two and tier-three cities such as Bhopal, Kanpur and Visakhapatnam. The increased domestic footprint of the Orange...

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Zayo Announces Infrastructure-as-a-Service for Clouds

Following its recent acquisition of Latisys Holdings, a colocation and infrastructure as a service (“Iaas”) provider, Zayo Group unveiled its updated cloud portfolio to now include private, public and hybrid IaaS cloud services in the U.S. and Europe. This encompasses high-performance, scalable, virtualized and non-virtualized compute and storage on a compliance audit-ready platform. Zayo said this strategic expansion builds on the Latisys assets...

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Microsoft Restructures Phone Business

Microsoft will record an impairment charge of approximately $7.6 billion related to assets associated with the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services (NDS) business in addition to a restructuring charge of approximately $750 million to $850 million. The restructuring will result in the elimination of up to 7,800 jobs. “We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy to grow and create a vibrant Windows ecosystem...

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Network Connectivity Issue Grounds United Airlines

United Airlines suffered a network connectivity issue on Wednesday morning (July 8), forcing it to ground all of its flights across the United States. The airline attributed the outage to a routing issue and not a cyber attack. http://newsroom.united.com/ ...

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DigitalOcean Raises $83 Million for Cloud Hosting

DigitalOcean, a start-up based in New York City, announced $83 million in Series B funding for its cloud infrastructure for developers of websites and applications. DigitalOcean offers simple cloud hosting with all servers built on powerful Hex Core machines with dedicated ECC Ram and RAID SSD storage. The company notes that more than 6 million Droplets (cloud servers) have been deployed on DigitalOcean by more than 500,000 developers to date. The...

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