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Salesforce and partners to drive nearly 500,000 jobs in India by 2020

IDC reports India's cloud computing market will grow at a 26% CAGR through 2020. San Francisco-based cloud computing firm Salesforce.com and its partners are looking to to drive nearly 500,000 jobs in the Indian market by 2020, India press reported. The reports note that...

Reader Forum: Cloud central offices – supercharging networks with SDN and NFV

Virtualization is critical to developing next-generation intelligent networks, with cloud central offices seen as an important part of bolstering SDN and NFV. Communication service providers are facing challenges on multiple fronts in today's digital-first world. Operators need to find ways to cope...

NFV at the ‘point of no return’ for telecom operators

NFV and SDN deployments remain sporadic, though development advances have bolstered platforms with the focus now on making them work better. On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Michael Brenner, chief architect for Network Functions Virtualization at Gigaspaces, to discuss the firm's growing...

AT&T plows NetBond platform into AWS Direct Connect

Amazon Web Services set to include AT&T NetBond product in a move designed to increase security for SaaS providers Infor and Pegasystems. AT&T deepened its work with Amazon Web Services through the integration of its NetBond product with the AWS Direct Connect...

Comcast joins AT&T and Verizon in ON.Lab ONOS and CORD projects

Cable television giant Comcast joins the open source ON.Lab ONOS and CORD initiatives focused on SDN, NFV and cloud development. The Open Networking Laboratory scored a significant new member as cable telecommunications giant Comcast joined the organization’s Open Network...

NFV, SDN deployments driving cloud security to session-oriented awareness

Cloud security plans require telecom operators and enterprises to think about total protection processes and take into account software platforms. Telecommunication operators are increasingly turning towards virtualized platforms in order to bolster agility, reduce costs and better position themselves to compete against...

Offering IoT solutions from physical sensors to LPWAN

We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company's view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more targeted basis rather than looking to provide the widest possible coverage. France-based Qowisio offers...

Offering IoT solutions from physical sensors to LPWAN

We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company's view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more targeted basis rather than looking to provide the widest possible coverage. France-based Qowisio offers...

What can be done to bolster telecom cloud security?

Cloud access security brokers are seen as one way telecom operators can ensure robust protection as they venture into the cloud. With telecom operators increasing their reach into cloud environments, steps need to be taken in order to ensure such moves do...

The internet of things further complicates cloud security

Cloud security challenges are only expected to be exacerbated by forecast growth in the internet of things. A growing security threat in the telecom and cloud space is around the “internet of things," which is forecast to eventually connect tens of billions...

NFV and SDN development, deployment and challenges

Integration, orchestration and security noted by Radware as key challenges facing ongoing SDN, NFV and cloud deployment models. On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Frank Yue, director of application delivery solutions at Radware, on development, deployment and challenges facing the telecom space...

Case study: Reducing costs with cloud-based energy management

The expense of water recycling The Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency claims to operate the world’s largest water recycling facility designed for raw food crop irrigation, using 25 pumping stations to treat 20 million gallons of wastewater every day. Pumping, treatment and conveyance are...

Case study: Reducing costs with cloud-based energy management

The expense of water recycling The Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency claims to operate the world’s largest water recycling facility designed for raw food crop irrigation, using 25 pumping stations to treat 20 million gallons of wastewater every day. Pumping, treatment and conveyance are...

Security remains significant hurdle for industry cloud efforts

One of the bigger challenges facing the continued move towards cloud platforms by telecom operators is security. In the old world of hardware, as long as the door remained physically locked, security was a no-brainer. But, in the new world of software, operators are...

What is an IoT AEP, or application enablement platform?

There is a general agreement that the "internet of things" will produce tens of billions of connected devices in the next few years. How we will get there isn't so straightforward, but enterprises are continuing to look for ways to streamline development for IoT...

A cloud in space, NASA uses AWS for Mars image analysis

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part of the tactical operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the control room...

A cloud in space, NASA uses AWS for Mars image analysis

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part of the tactical operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the control room...

What is an IoT AEP, or application enablement platform?

There is a general agreement that the "internet of things" will produce tens of billions of connected devices in the next few years. How we will get there isn't so straightforward, but enterprises are continuing to look for ways to streamline development for IoT...

Telecom industry continues push into cloud platforms

Cloud platforms along with the move towards virtualization technologies have begun to have a significant impact on the way telecom operators run their businesses. Operators have been very active in providing cloud-based options for customers, as well as have begun to use such platforms...

ONUG set to invest in cloud, analytics and monitoring

Open Networking User Group states plans for significant investment into cloud, analytics and monitoring, formation of ONUG Lab The Open Networking User Group came out of its recent trade event with new momentum behind plans for the formation of $1 billion cloud-based infrastructure analytic applications...

Cloud helps build smart vending machine of the future

Smart vending machine for today and tomorrow Vending machines are a $7 billion industry in the United States, and there is reportedly one vending machine for every 55 people, according to Eurotech. Globally, the installed base is expected to reach 35.2 million units by 2015....

Cloud helps build smart vending machine of the future

Smart vending machine for today and tomorrow Vending machines are a $7 billion industry in the United States, and there is reportedly one vending machine for every 55 people, according to Eurotech. Globally, the installed base is expected to reach 35.2 million units by 2015....

Reader Forum: Cloud-optimizing your network? Here’s where to start

The move towards virtualized and cloud-based network systems can appear significant for telecom operators, but here’s a good place to start the journey Analysts predict that more than half of all enterprise applications will be in the cloud by 2020. For communications services, the timetable...

Vendor cooperation in deploying SDN platforms

Level 3 provides insight into the working relationship with partners on the deployment of SDN platforms in support of service agility For most companies, the deployment of virtualized platforms using software-defined networking, network functions virtualization or cloud technologies requires working with other parties on the...