Barefoot Unveils 6.5 Tbps Tofino Switching Chip

Barefoot Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California emerged from stealth to unveil its "Tofino" switching chip and announce that it has raised $130 million, including a strategic investment from Google. Dubbed "the fast switch every built", Barefoot’s programmable Tofino switch chip processes packets at 6.5 terabits per second, twice as fast as the previous record holder. While conventional programmable network devices such as NPUs have...

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Portworx Debuts Enterprise-Class Storage for Containers

Portworx, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, introduced its purpose-built, enterprise-class storage for containers. While containers are distributed and fast, legacy storage is siloed and slow, and cannot be quickly provisioned or scaled to respond to changing container workloads. Portworx said its solution for container storage provides per-container storage management and can keep pace with container scalability and bursts. The company...

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CenturyLink acquires multi-cloud platform startup ElasticBox

CenturyLink has acquired ElasticBox, a start-up offering a multi-cloud application management service. Financial terms were not disclosed. ElasticBox, which has offices in San Francisco and Madrid, enables enterprise IT organizations to orchestrate the deployment of applications and create a self-service catalog of applications and infrastructure. Specifically, ElasticBox enables application orchestration for more than 12 different cloud providers,...

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Loggly Raises $11.5 Million for Log Management

Loggly, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $11.5 million in funding for its cloud-based, enterprise-class log management service. Loggly's cloud-based log management solution crunches through huge volumes of log data to reveal key insights. The company said customers in the gaming and entertainment industry, consumer services, technology as well as marketing and finance platforms, are using its cloud-based log management service to aggregate...

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China Mobile Kicks Off RCS with ZTE

China Mobile has officially initiated the commercialisation of its rich communication services (RCS) network. ZTE worked with China Mobile to build this virtual IP multimedia subsystem (vIMS) based RCS project, which is the world’s largest vIMS network. ZTE provided an RCS open gateway conforming to GSMA specifications, which fully opens up service engine capabilities. In October 2014, ZTE won the tender to become the system integrator of this...

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Elastifile Announces Investment from Cisco

Elastifile, a start-up based in San Jose, announced a strategic investment by Cisco. Financial terms were not disclosed. Other investors in the company include Battery Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Elastifile's Software Defined Storage solution extends existing file systems, helping large and mid-size enterprises to scale to hundreds and thousands of nodes, while providing millions of Input/output Operations per Second (IOPS) flash...

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Video - Lauren Antonoff: New Ideas for Bringing Small Business Online

The global economy needs to radically shift to small businesses. One way to do so is to help people to easily start and confidently grow their own ventures...

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Video - Wanda Reder: Connecting Everything

New technologies are hitting the market that enable self-healing in the power network and rollout of Smart Grids...

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