OpenStack's "Rocky" release enhances bare metal provisioning

OpenStack, which now powers more than 75 public cloud data centers and thousands of private clouds at a scale of more than 10 million compute cores, has now advanced to its 18th major release. OpenStack "Rocky" has dozens of dozens of enhancements, the significant being refinements to Ironic (the bare metal provisioning service) and fast forward upgrades. There are also several emerging projects and features designed to meet new user requirements...

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Database for the Instant Experience -- a profile of Redis Labs

The user experience is the ultimate test of network performance. For many applications, this often comes down to the lag after clicking and before the screen refreshes. We can trace the packets back from the user's handset, through the RAN, mobile core, metro transport, and perhaps long-haul optical backbone to a cloud data center. However, even if this path traverses the very latest generation infrastructure, if it ends up triggering a search in...

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Ciena posts strong quarter as revenue rises to $818.8m

Ciena reported revenue of $818.8 million for its fiscal third quarter 2018,  as compared to $728.7 million for the fiscal third quarter 2017. Ciena's GAAP net income for the fiscal third quarter 2018 was $50.8 million, or $0.34 per diluted common share, which compares to a GAAP net income of $60.0 million, or $0.39 per diluted common share, for the fiscal third quarter 2017. Ciena's adjusted (non-GAAP) net income for the fiscal third quarter...

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ZTE counts its losses for 1H18, renews focus on 5G

ZTE Corporation reported revenue of RMB 39.434 billion for the first six months of 2018, down 27% from RMB 54.010 for the same period in 2017. For the six months, ZTE's net profit attributable to holders of ordinary shares of the listed company amounted to RMB-7.824 billion, representing year-on-year decline of 441.24%. Basic earnings per share amounted to RMB-1.87, which reflected mainly the company’s payment of the US$1 billion penalty to the...

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QSFP-DD MSA Group completes mechanical plugfest

The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) completed a mechanical plugfest to validate the compatibility and interoperation between member’s designs. The MSA said the event confirmed that the maturity of design experience resulted in a highly successful outcome. A key value proposition of QSFP-DD form factor is the backward compatibility with the widely adopted QSFP28. The areas of focus for this...

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Nutanix says software sales growing at 49% annual clip

Nutanix reported revenue of $303.7 million for its fourth quarter ended July 31, 2018, up from $252.5 million a year earlier, reflecting the elimination of approximately $95 million in pass-through hardware revenue in the quarter as the company continues to execute its shift toward increasing software revenue. Software and support revenue amounted to $267.9 million in the quarter, growing 49% year-over-year from $179.6 million in the fourth quarter...

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Dell'Oro: Sales of 25 Gbps NICs take off

Sales of 25 Gbps controller and adapter ports is forecasted to grow at a 45 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group, as 25 Gbps advances to become the mainstream speed in cloud and enterprise servers. “25 Gbps has seen a strong initial ramp-up and is now expected to be the dominant speed over the next five years. We have seen Amazon and Facebook as early adopters of 25 Gbps technology,...

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Dell'Oro: Server landscape shifts toward white box cloud servers

The server market is on track to surge $10 billion higher in 2018 before growth rates taper, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.  Vendor landscape is trending to lower-cost white box cloud servers. “Although we forecast a five-year compounded annual growth rate of only two percent, the growth of the server market in 2018 will be at an unprecedented level,” said Baron Fung, Senior Business Analysis Manager at Dell’Oro Group. “However,...

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A10 announces preliminary revenue of $60.7 million

A10 Networks announced preliminary revenue of $60.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, up 12% year-over-year. GAAP net loss was $4.5 million, or $0.06 per share, and non-GAAP net income was $1.6 million, or $0.02 per share. “We have made steady progress across our key initiatives including strengthening our team, increasing our pace of innovation, and targeting our R&D investments in cloud, security and 5G. While our first quarter...

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