Microsoft Acquires Deis for Kubernetes Management

Microsoft is acquiring Deis, a start-up specializing in Kubernetes container management technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Deis has offices in San Franciso and Boulder, Colorado. "At Microsoft, we’ve seen explosive growth in both interest and deployment of containerized workloads on Azure," stated Scott Guthrie - Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft, in a company blog. http://www.deis.com...

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Huawei Eyes the Public Cloud

Huawei is launching a major push to build public cloud infrastructure. In a keynote address at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit (HAS) in Shenzhen, Eric Xu, Huawei's Rotating CEO, said the ambition is to drive digital transformation by focusing on ICT infrastructure and smart devices. "Beginning in 2017, Huawei will focus on public cloud services. We will invest heavily in building an open and trusted public cloud platform, which will be the foundation...

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IDC: Accelerating IT Infrastructure Spending for Public Clouds

Total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches) for deployment in cloud environments will increase 15.3% year over year in 2017 to $41.7 billion, according to a new forecast from IDC. "After the slowdown seen in 2016, we expect to see spending on IT infrastructure for public cloud deployments return to double-digit growth in 2017," said Natalya Yezhkova, research director, Storage Systems. "Growing...

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Google Joins INDIGO Undersea Cable Project

A consortium comprising AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra announced that they have entered into an agreement with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) for the construction of a new subsea cable system. On completion, the new INDIGO cable system (previously known as APX West & Central) will expand connectivity between Australia and South East Asia markets, and will enable higher speed services and improved reliability. The...

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Calix unveils AXOS OFx OpenFlow Connector for ONOS/CORD

Calix of Petaluma, California, a provider of Subscriber Driven Intelligent Access solutions, has announced the completion of the AXOS OFx (OpenFlow) Connector for the ON.Lab vOLT-HA (virtual optical line terminal-hardware abstraction) open source project.Leveraging the native NetConf/Yang interfaces of the Calix AXOS platform, OFx si designed to enable the rapid integration of the AXOS Software Defined Access platform into ON.Lab ONOS and CORD (Central...

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Huawei and Colt DCS partner on Hyper-scale Cloud

Huawei has announced at CeBIT 2017 a collaboration with Colt Data Center Services (Colt DCS), a unit of Colt Technology Services, under which the two companies will work together to address the market for hyper-scale cloud-based data centre solutions, with the aim of meeting industry requirements for dynamic, cost-effective and customer-oriented data centre infrastructure in the cloud era.As a major hosting service provider, Colt DCS builds and operates...

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China Telco Data and Market Update - Part 3

China telco subscription data for February, other China market news updates and operator results for 2016 - Part 3 Alibaba maintains explosive momentum with a 53% revenue growth Alibaba results for the 5 years 2012 to 16 ended March 31st  (RMB millions): Latest financial Q3 and YTD 2017 results On January 24th Alibaba stock was up 3% following Q3 FY2017 results that beat market expectations on both revenue and earnings. Specifically,...

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Nokia and University of Technology Sydney enter MoU

Nokia and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which Nokia will join the university's UTS: Rapido, a new technology development unit, and support the development of IoT-based business applications leveraging high-speed, ultra-low latency technologies such as 5G.Through the technology partnership with UTS: Rapido, which is intended to help businesses realise the potential of...

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Vocus deploys ADTRAN XGS-PON in Aus and NZ

ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, announced that Vocus Communications, a service provider serving Australia and New Zealand, is deploying a range of its next generation access technologies including ADTRAN's XGS-PON solutions and Mosaic architecture.Vocus has built an advanced infrastructure platform across Australia designed to support business and backhaul services and residential applications. The deployment with...

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Enablence to raise C$6m for PLCs

Enablence Technologies of Ottawa and Fremont, California, a supplier of optical components and subsystems for access, metro and long-haul markets, announced its intention to complete additional financing for approximately C$6 million.Enablence also announced the termination, by mutual agreement, of the non-binding letter of intent (LoI) with Esrey Energy as announced on December 8, 2016, under which the two companies proposed to implement a business...

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