Aryaka has announced an additional $45m funding from Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and Third Point Ventures. This is series D funding has been led by Third Point Ventures, and existing…
PLUMgrid pudding for Christmas, who gains weight?
In 2013 PLUMgrid emerged from stealth mode, delivering a virtualised network infrastructure using standard x86 hardware, using an "IO Visor". This sat within the host, rather than using an external…
Amazon carry lots of Snowballs in their SnowMobile
Amazon have a service called AWS Snowball, but if you're importing a large dataset into the cloud, 80TB might simply not be enough. So now you can upgrade your transfers…
CenturyLink moves on Level3
On this side of the pond, CenturyLink isn't a particularly well known carrier, but they've just made a bid for Level 3 Communications, known for their fiber network services. This…
Vocus buys NextGen for fibre backhaul in Australia
Australia's Vocus Communications has just completed the acquisition of NextGen's network assets. (Vocus and NextGen - Better Together). The deal is worth AU$861mn (according to ZDNet, Vocus completes AU$861m acquisition of…
Multi-Gigabit Ethernet is here – IEEE 802.11bz
In June 2015, the IEEE created a working group to bring two industry alliances together to deliver Multi-Gigabit Ethernet. Work done by the NBASE-T and MGBASE-T industry groups is brought…
RESTful Server Management with some Redfish
Managing servers is hard enough. Doing it with a rack of servers is more difficult. Maintaining a data centre full of servers can provide a significant challenge. There are lots…
HP Inks $1.05bn deal for Samsung’s printer business
HP Inc (the printer and consumer business) has announced a deal to acquire Samsung's printer business. (HP Acquires Samsung Printer Business) HP is looking to disrupt the $55bn copier industry…