Nutanix to acquire Minjar for multicloud capabilities

Nutanix agreed to acquire Minjar, a start-up with development offices in Bengaluru, India that offers cost control and visibility services for workloads in public clouds. Financial terms were not disclosed. Minjar' Botmetric service SmartAssist Assurance and SmartAssist Managed Cloud services help enterprises embrace the cloud effectively and optimize their multi-cloud environments for performance and cost. Nutanix also plans to use Minjar’s technology...

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Viasat boasts 100 Mbps of home Internet downlinks in U.S. with its new satellite

Viasat introduced its fastest satellite-based home Internet service for the U.S. market to date, boasting nation—with downlink speeds up to 100 Mbps. The new Viasat service also offers unlimited data plans. The new service is powered by the ViaSat-2 satellite system, which was launched on June 1, 2017 by Arianespace.  The Ka-band satellite was built by Boeing. "We've upped the game for satellite internet by delivering a new service that gives...

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TE Connectivity targets higher density switches with zQSFP+ Stacked Belly-to-Belly Cages

TE Connectivity (TE) introduced its zQSFP+ stacked belly-to-belly cages designed for high-density switches with 48 or 64 silicon ports. The cage supports a single printed circuit board (PCB) architecture (versus two PCBs) in each line card. The company said this new design addresses the requirements for higher density switches, including Open Compute Project (OCP) reference designs. The cages support up to 28G NRZ and 56G PAM-4 data rates to achieve...

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Huawei sets up ICT academy in Singapore

As part of its global initiative to support ICT skills development, Huawei announced a partnership with Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) to set up the first ICT Academy in Singapore. The not-for-profit academy, titled Huawei Authorised Information Network Academy (HAINA), allows NYP to deliver Huawei Certification training to their students. The program is expected to benefit about 300 students at NYP's School of Engineering and School of Information Technology...

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Dell'Oro: Chinese cloud giant to overtake U.S. providers in server growth by 2022

The top three Chinese Cloud service providers – Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu – are forecast to outpace the top four U.S. Cloud providers – Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook – in server growth by 2022, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Over the same period, Small/Medium Businesses (SMB) are accelerating their migration to Public Cloud, while large Enterprises – i.e., Fortune 1000 companies, which includes the Private Cloud – will...

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Nutanix hits revenue of $286.7 million, shifts to software sales

Nutanix reported revenue of $286.7 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2018, up 44% year-over-year from $199.2 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2017, and reflecting the elimination of approximately $14 million in hardware revenue in the quarter as the company executes its shift toward increasing software revenue. Billings for the quarter amounted to $355.9 million, growing 57% year-over-year from $227.4 million in the second quarter...

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