Oracle to acquire Aconex for approximately $1.2 billion
Oracle announced it has entered an agreement to purchase Aconex, an Australian company that makes cloud-based collaboration software for construction projects, for approximately $1.2 billion.
Oracle has been working to realign itself around web-based products. Last year, for...
Thales outbids Atos for Gemalto
French aerospace specialist Thales outbid Atos for Dutch cybersecurity provider Gemalto. The company has agreed to purchase Gemalto for $5.6 billion, surpassing Atos’s bid valued at $5.06 billion.
Gemalto is considered the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and credit cards....
Nokia unveils Data Refinery solution
Nokia premiered a new data processing software today called Nokia Data Refinery, formerly Comptel Data Refinery, which aims to provide real-time data for context-aware intelligence.
According to the company, Nokia Data Refinery provides intelligent fast data processing to power complex event...
Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain is a buzzword frequently making news headlines, largely due to the numerous use cases it opens up. With roots tracing back to Bitcoin, the potential of blockchain exceeds digital currency and to a host of other industries, including telecommunications. The only question...
Hutchison 3 Indonesia embraces Nokia’s Cloud Packet Core solution
Telecom service provider Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) announced it has selected Nokia’s Cloud Packet Core solution to help manage data volume growth in the Indonesian market.
The Indonesian cloud computing market is anticipated to witness the most...
Cyber attack recap
Cyber attacks have been on the rise in recent years. The year 2017 was no exception, with terms like “data breaches” an “malicious malware” seemingly making news headlines every other day. As the year 2017 comes to a close, let’s recap some...
Juniper premieres new security appliances
Juniper announced a new line of network appliances and capabilities aimed at making security easier through automated policy management.
The latest security capabilities include the Junos Space Security Director, which offers security management with a centralized interface that provides enforcement across...
Cisco, Digicel sketch digital vision for Caribbean countries with new agreement
Cisco and Digicel announced they have signed a Caribbean Countries Digitalization Frame Agreement, detailing each company's plans for advancing the digital agenda and policies for 26 countries in the Caribbean and Central America. As...
Bell deploys product with ONAP platform
Canadian telecommunications company Bell announced it has become the first company to launch an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in production.
The announcement was noted by Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking and orchestration at...
AWS launches new cloud region in China
Amazon announced Monday it is expanding its cloud computing service Amazon Web Services (AWS) in China with a local partner and launch of the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. The China cloud region consists of two...
VMware and Carbon Black announce new app security solution
VMware and endpoint security firm Carbon Black announced they are building on their partnership with a new security solution, which combines the former’s AppDefense with the latter’s Cb Defense. The purpose of the solution is to...
ONF launches CORD 4.1
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced that Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) has undergone some significant changes with the release of CORD 4.1 in order to provide a single platform for multi-access edge cloud.
CORD is an architecture of the...
Huawei and China Mobile submit BNG proposal to IETF
Huawei and the China Mobile Research Institute submitted a standards proposal at the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) 100th meeting for the first cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) interface protocol requirements. According to the companies, the...
Weaveworks announces free tier Weave Cloud on Google Cloud Platform
Weaveworks announced free tier of Weave Cloud for Google Cloud Platform users. The platform is intended to make it easier to develop, deploy and oversee container-based applications.
Weave Cloud is a software-as-a-service leveraged by app developers....
Kubernetes 1.9 moves Workloads APIs to stability
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced version 1.9 of the container orchestration and management platform Kubernetes is expected to be released December 13 with various updates and expanded features. The release follows on the heels of the...
EasyStack launches EasyStack Kubernetes Service (EKS)
EasyStack, an open source cloud computing solutions provider in China, premiered EasyStack Kubernetes Service (EKS) at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, with capabilities like orchestration, scheduling, security, operations and maintenance holding the spotlight.
Kubernetes, a platform that...
Snapdragon 845 brings major advancements in immersive AV, AI, security, connectivity and performance
For the past five year, Qualcomm Technologies has spent more than $1 billion per quarter on research and development. Last week, with a bevy of executives, partners, press and analysts on hand...
CoreOS unveils Tectonic 1.8
CoreOS, maker of the Tectonic cloud-management platform built on Kubernetes, announced Tectonic 1.8 will ship with the beta version of Open Cloud Services Catalog. In addition to circumnavigating cloud vendor lock-in, the catalog aims to enable companies to launch key infrastructure...
Software company launches Cloudify 4.2
Austin, Texas -- Software company Cloudify unveiled Cloudify 4.2 at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 this week, which includes -- among other features -- interoperability and cross-cloud functionality through the new Kubernetes provider plugin. According to the company, the latest...
Companies tag team Heptio Ark project
Austin, Texas -- Microsoft and Heptio announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 they are working together to ensure the Heptio Ark project provides a Kubernetes disaster recovery solution for customers wanting to use it on Azure. The companies collaboration...
Oracle brings two Kubernetes projects to open source community
Austin, Texas -- Oracle announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon it is open sourcing Fn project Kubernetes Installer and Global Multi-Cluster Management, two projects made to aid the development of the next generation of container native applications...
Alibaba Cloud and Baidu become CNCF members
Austin, Texas -- The two major cloud companies, Alibaba Cloud and Baidu, have announced their support of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) by becoming members of the organization, as noted this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017.
The...
The role of Kubernetes in AWS
Austin, Texas -- Pay-as-you-go, self-service, global distribution and high utilization -- those are the principles that undergird cloud native, noted Adrian Cockcroft, vice president of cloud architecture strategy at AWS, during a keynote presentation at this year’s KubeCon +...
Big Switch addresses data center scaling issues with SDN
Big Switch Networks, a data center networking company, unveiled a new capability of its SDN-based Big Monitoring (Big Mon) Fabric called GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) correlation. According to the company, Big Switch will provide the GTP...
