Blueprint: What’s in Store for the Database in 2016?

by Roger Levy, VP of Product at MariaDB In 2015, CIOs focused on DevOps and similar technologies such as containers as a way to improve time to value. During 2016, greater attention will be focused on data analytics and data management as a way to improve the timeliness and quality of business decisions. How best to store and manage data is on the minds of most CIOs as they kick off the New Year. It’s exciting to see that databases, which underlie...

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US$300M SUPERNAP Thailand Aims to be First Tier IV Gold Data Center In Asia

Construction is underway of a new US$300 million (11 billion THB) SUPERNAP data center in in Thailand’s eastern province Chonburi. The new SUPERNAP Thailand data center, which is in the Hemmaraj Industrial Estate, will cover an area of nearly 75 rai or 12 hectares and will be strategically built outside the flood zone, 110-meters above sea level and only 27 kilometers away from an international submarine cable landing station.  The facility,...

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VeloCloud Raises $27 Million for SD-WAN, Including Cisco Investment

VeloCloud Networks, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, closed $27 million in Series C financing for its cloud SD-WAN solution. VeloCloud enable enterprises to rapidly, seamlessly and economically expand their wide area networks to support application growth, network agility and simplified branch implementations, while delivering optimized access to cloud datacenters and applications. The company reports rapid adoption of its SD-WAN solution...

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Shaw Sells Media Assets for C$2.65 Billion to Fund Wind Mobile Acquisition

Shaw Communications agreed to sell its wholly owned broadcasting subsidiary, Shaw Media, to Corus Entertainment for C$2.65 billion.  The deal includes Shaw Media's conventional television network, Global Television, and 19 specialty channels, including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, History Television and Showcase. “This transaction represents a significant milestone for Shaw, firmly positioning the company as a leading pure-play connectivity...

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Shape Security Gets $25 Million for Botwall Service

Shape Security, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced $25 million in Series D funding to accelerate deployments of its Shape Botwall Service. The Shape Botwall Service, available in the cloud or on­-premises, stops automated web and mobile application attacks, like credential stuffing, content scraping, and application-­layer DDoS, that bypass existing defenses. The company says its ShapeShifter botwall technology disables the...

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Source Photonics Hits Milestone for 100G: 10,000 Single Mode QSFP28 Modules Shipped

Source Photonics announced a big milestone: the shipment of its 10,000th single mode 100G QSFP28 module. Source Photonics began production shipments of 10km QSFP28 LR4 and 2km QSFP28 LR4-Lite modules in Q1 2015 after a successful introduction and sampling program with several leading customer-partners throughout 2014. The company said major applications include cloud scale and Web 2.0 data centers worldwide. “Potential market opportunity for...

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Valve Upgrades to 100G for its Online Gaming Service

Valve, an online gaming company, selected Level 3 Communications to upgrade its network infrastructure to include 100 Gbps ports. The upgrade is in response to the substantial rise in popularity of digital services and online games provided by Steam, Valve's social entertainment and gaming platform. The new ports will give Valve the bandwidth necessary to continue providing an optimal experience as Steam's audience size and usage expands. Valve's...

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Intel Posts Growth in Data Center, IoT and Non-Volatile Memory

Intel posted Q4 revenue of $14.9 billion, operating income of $4.3 billion, net income of $3.6 billion and EPS of 74 cents. Some highlights for full-Year 2015: • Client Computing Group revenue of $32.2 billion, down 8 percent from 2014. • Data Center Group revenue of $16.0 billion, up 11 percent from 2014. • Internet of Things Group revenue of $2.3 billion, up 7 percent from 2014. • Software and services operating segments revenue of $2.2 billion,...

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Ericsson and Huawei Extend Global Patent Deal

Ericsson and Huawei agreed on extending their global patent license agreement.  The deal includes a cross license that covers patents relating to both companies' wireless standard-essential patents (including the GSM, UMTS and LTE cellular standards). Under the agreement, both companies are able to access and implement the other company's standard essential patents and technologies globally. As part of the renewed agreement, Huawei will make...

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