Video: Karen Bartleson - Advancing IEEE's Internet Initiative

The IEEE is the world's largest professional society with over 400,000 members around the world and dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, Karen Bartleson, President-elect of the IEEE, discusses her involvement with the IEEE's Internet Initiative, which is tacking tough problems in cyber security, privacy, and governance. She also talks about inspiring future engineers, especially young women, to take up the challenge of...

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Salesforce Signs with AWS as Preferred Cloud

Salesforce has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. Under the deal, Salesforce will expand its use of AWS to core services—including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Community Cloud, Analytics Cloud and more—for the company's planned international infrastructure expansion. Financial terms were not disclosed. Many Salesforce services, including Heroku, Marketing Cloud Social Studio, SalesforceIQ,...

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Viptela Pulls In $75 Million for its SD-WAN Platform

Viptela, a start-up based in San Jose, announced $75 million in Series C funding for its Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) platform. The company cites deployments by more than 25 Fortune 500 enterprises including some of the world’s largest retailers, financial institutions, conglomerates, healthcare organizations and other businesses that have many geographically distributed locations. The company has licensing partnerships with Tier-1 carriers Verizon...

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Telefónica Renews Submarine Cable Maintenance Contracts

Telefónica has renewed the marine maintenance service agreement for its domestic and South America-1 (SAM-1) submarine cable systems with Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), now part of Nokia, and TE SubCom.  The five-year extension will take effect on January 1, 2017. Under the Atlantic Private Maintenance Agreement (APMA), ASN and TE SubCom will continue to make available three dedicated maintenance vessels in the Western Atlantic (Curaçao)...

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eero Raises $50 Million for Home WiFi System

eero, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $50 million for its home WiFi system. ero uses multiple 802.11ac access points placed throughout the home to provide strong coverage in every room.  The company will use the funding to build its customer support team and prepare for a widespread retail presence in Best Buy. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures with significant participation by Index Ventures. They join eero’s existing investors,...

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CloudBolt Manages Cloud Bursting to VMware, AWS, Azure, Openstack

CloudBolt, a start-up based in Campbell, California, has added cloud bursting capabilities to its cloud management platform. CloudBolt said its tech-agnostic approach to cloud bursting and cloud management enables IT teams to build and rebuild VMs in an automated fashion, eliminating the need for complicated and resource-intensive migration of live VMs from one technology to another. These same CloudBolt blueprints can be deployed and scaled into...

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