Allied Telesis Introduces EtherGRID™ Cloud-in-a-Rack Solution

Allied Telesis, a global provider of secure IP/Ethernet switching solutions, and an industry leader in the deployment of IP Triple Play networks, today announced that it will showcase its EtherGRID™ application hybrid cloud delivery platform at the Light Reading Big Telecom Event in Chicago, June 9-10, Booth #461. EtherGRID, a next-generation hybrid cloud platform, is… Continue reading Allied Telesis Introduces EtherGRID™ Cloud-in-a-Rack Solution

SimpliVity Adds Support for Cisco UCS Director, Simplifies IT and Cloud Environments

Today at Cisco Live! U.S., SimpliVity announced that its leading hyperconverged infrastructure will support Cisco UCS Director to optimize customer private and hybrid cloud environments. Available next quarter, SimpliVity’s hyperconverged solution will support Cisco UCS Director to automate infrastructure management and orchestrate the provisioning of virtual machines (VMs) with native data protection and mobility across… Continue reading SimpliVity Adds Support for Cisco UCS Director, Simplifies IT and Cloud Environments

EMC To Acquire Virtustream

Hopkinton, MA: EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Virtustream. When the transaction closes, Virtustream will form EMC’s new managed cloud services business. The acquisition represents a transformational element of EMC’s strategy to help customers move all applications to cloud-based IT environments. With the addition of… Continue reading EMC To Acquire Virtustream

VMware Introduces Open Source Projects for Cloud-Native Applications

VMware, Inc. today announced two new open source projects built to enable enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications — Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project that will extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications; and Project Photon, a lightweight Linux operating system optimized for cloud-native applications. Designed to help enterprise developers securely build, deploy… Continue reading VMware Introduces Open Source Projects for Cloud-Native Applications

SkySync Enables Hybrid Storage Options for Oracle Customers

Documents Cloud Service

Portal Architects, Inc., the creators of SkySync, today announced the release of a new connector for Oracle WebCenter Content. The new SkySync connector, along with the existing SkySync Oracle Documents Cloud connector, enables organizations to tightly integrate any existing on-premises or cloud content storage systems with Oracle WebCenter Content or Oracle Documents Cloud Service quickly.… Continue reading SkySync Enables Hybrid Storage Options for Oracle Customers

Datadog Acquires Mortar Data to Enhance Analytics for Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Data Analytics

Datadog, the leading SaaS-based monitoring platform for cloud applications, today announced it has acquired Mortar Data, a New York-based startup enabling companies to build and run custom big data applications and data pipelines. With the addition of Mortar Data’s analytics platform and experienced team, this acquisition will extend Datadog’s data analytics capabilities and will soon… Continue reading Datadog Acquires Mortar Data to Enhance Analytics for Cloud Monitoring

Actifio Introduces Actifio One, the Business Resiliency Cloud

Business Resiliency Cloud

Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, today announced the launch of Actifio One, the business resiliency cloud. Actifio One is a cloud-based service built on Actifio’s copy data virtualization technology that provides businesses of all sizes with the fastest and easiest way to make their applications available when and where they need them. Built on… Continue reading Actifio Introduces Actifio One, the Business Resiliency Cloud

Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC

UC-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solutions

Unequivocally, 2015 will see strong growth in the Cloud computing, Big Data Analytics, Social media, Internet of things, and Mobility (CASIM). Frost & Sullivan believes that CASIM will mark a positive impact on the unified communications (UC) market, making UC more critical to the businesses than ever before. “UC will no more be just about… Continue reading Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC