HPE and Arista Extend Partnership

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a new strategic partnership with Arista Networks to provide secure Hybrid IT solutions built on their software-defined data center infrastructure portfolio. Specifically, beginning in November, HPE will begin selling Arista's switching products directly to HPE customers and partners. This partnership expands on the existing HPE Converged Architecture agreement that focused on building application workload...

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Facebook Picks New Mexico for 7th Data Center

Facebook will build its 7th global data center in Los Lunas, New Mexico. The company's other data centers are in Prineville (Oregon), Forest City (North Carolina), Luleå (Sweden), Altoona (Iowa), Fort Worth (Texas), and Clonee (Ireland). The new facility, which will be powered by 100% renewable energy, will be one of the most energy-efficient data centers in the world. https://www.facebook.com/LosLunasDataCenter/?pnref=story Los Lunas is located...

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Orange to Join AT&T’s Open Source ECOMP Effort

AT&T, which recently announced plans to contribute its Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform to open source, announced that Orange is now planning to test the platform for creating and managing its own software-defined network. Orange is the first telecom company to join AT&T’s ECOMP effort. The carriers have agreed to collaborate on open source and standardization initiatives to accelerate the standardization...

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DE-CIX Opens Internet Exchange in Dallas

DE-CIX has inaugurated its newest carrier and data center-neutral Internet exchange in Dallas, Texas. DE-CIX is located at Infomart, the main carrier hotel in Dallas, located at 1950 Stemmons Freeway. This location offers the highest density of data centers, carriers and ISPs.   DE- CIX will provide peering exchange services throughout this community and, ultimately, to an even larger community of networks and data centers beyond 1950 Stemmons. “Being...

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Mirantis to Acquire TCP Cloud for Managing Continuous Upgrades

Mirantis agreed to acquire TCP Cloud, a start-up headquartered in Prague that specializes in  managed services for OpenStack, OpenContrail and Kubernetes. Financial terms were not disclosed. TCP Cloud has about 30 employees. Mirantis said the deal will support its initiative with Google and Intel to enable OpenStack on Kubernetes by enabling it to continuously deliver OpenStack to customer data centers. Mirantis plans to integrate TCP Cloud’s...

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Nokia Opens Cloud Design Center in UK

Aiming to extend its cloud partner ecosystem, Nokia inaugurated a global Cloud Design Center in Fleet, UK. The new facility incorporates an integrated multi-vendor IT and telco cloud platform upon which Nokia will test, validate and demonstrate new services. The delivery of the cloud will be managed at various regional centers. Nokia also announced the launch of its Prime Integration Services, under which it will act as the single point of contact,...

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