GSMA: Over 2.5 Billion Mobile Subscribers in Asia-Pac

The number of mobile subscribers in the Asia Pacific region reached 2.5 billion at the end of last year and will grow to 3.1 billion by 2020, according to a new GSMA study published at GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai. Some highlights of the report: 62 per cent of the Asia Pacific population was subscribed to a mobile service in 2015 and this is forecast to rise to almost three-quarters of the population by 2020 as a further 600 million new...

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AWS Launches Elastic File System

Amazon Web Services introduced a fully managed service to simplify the process of setting up and scaling file storage in the AWS Cloud. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) can be used to create file systems that are accessible to multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances via the Network File System (NFS) protocol. Amazon EFS can automatically scale without needing to provision storage or throughput, enabling file systems...

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Open-NFP Opens Cloud-based Lab for SDN and NFV Apps

Open-NFP (Open Network Function Processing), an industry group focused on on research and development in datapath offloads and acceleration for SDN and NFV applications, will host a series of webinars focused on P4 programming techniques, applications and usage. The six session series runs from July 13 through September 21, 2016. Open-NFP also announced the creation of a cloud-based infrastructure for server hardware-accelerated P4-based application...

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VMware's Yanbing Li on the Future of Software-defined Storage

Big changes are underway in the IT industry, with new architectures being defined for application delivery, new cloud models, and the rise of software-defined everything, says VMware's Yanbing Li, Senior VP and GM of Storage and Availability. In this video, she talks about software-defined storage, including hyper-converged software.  The future is about the explosive growth of data. See video: https://youtu.be/j2lFBKV4A4...

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Cisco to Acquire Cloudlock for $293 Million

Cisco agreed to acquire CloudLock, a start-up focused on cloud security, for $293 million in cash and assumed equity awards. CloudLock specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology that provides enterprises with visibility and analytics around user behavior and sensitive data in cloud services, including SaaS, IaaS and PaaS. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Cisco said the deal extends its Security Everywhere strategy,...

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Brocade-Viavi Partner on Mobile Analytics

Viavi Solutions and Brocade are rolling out a joint solution that enables mobile operators to capture and analyze subscriber data to quickly resolve quality of experience (QoE) issues. Viavi’s xSIGHT Targeted Subscriber Search (TSS) leverages the Brocade Packet Broker and Brocade Session Director to filter and deliver targeted subscriber traffic so only the data required to resolve customer experience problems is forwarded to xSIGHT TSS. The joint...

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SanDisk Pops 256GB MicroSD Cards

SanDisk introduced two 256 gigabyte (GB) microSD cards -- a high-performance 256GB SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card – the fastest microSD card in its class, and the 256GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition, for mainstream consumers. “Our microSD cards are now at the center of many consumer devices, and we’re excited to not only raise the bar with the launch of the world’s fastest microSD card, but to also offer a family of...

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