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Cinnabar, USMetro prepare six-city cloud-managed LAN
Cinnabar Ventures (OTCBB: CNBR) is getting ready to leverage its pending acquisition of a small Florida CLEC and its own development-stage Web-based operating system into a six-city rollout ...
New group asks large enterprises for cloud input
The TM Forum’s new ‘buyer’s council’ to learn how service providers can better serve businesses’ emerging cloud requirements...
Force10 brings Ethernet’s cost to MPLS core
As promised this spring, Force10 Networks is adding MPLS capabilities to its ExaScale core switch router this month, promising to bring Ethernet economics to the MPLS core....
Alcatel-Lucent pushes app tools, vision
As next step in app enablement strategy, vendor moves into the cloud...
180Squared targets hospitality with IPTV managed service
Carrier Ethernet provider MBO Video will use the service to target hotels, hospitality with real-time billing and segmentation....
Linesider launches to automate cloud configuration
A new startup focused on automating cloud computing infrastructure management exited stealth mode this week....
Amazon links cloud to enterprise data centers
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has had success providing its cloud infrastructure to startups and Web companies, but a new service announced today aims to move its cloud offering further into the enterprise...
Study: IT shops have cash in hand for cloud computing
More than 80% of large enterprises are at least in trial stage on a cloud computing initiative, according to a new study released today, signaling potentially solid demand for this new style of managed services...
Savvis CTO on Cloud 2.0
Cloud computing provider Savvis hints at open APIs, hourly pricing and desktop clouds...
Inside Juniper and IBM’s data center strategy
Juniper Networks’ original equipment manufacturer deal with IBM, announced today, is Juniper’s first OEM deal outside of the carrier space, a departure that signals the vendor’s desire to penetrate the data center networking world...
Commentary: How the cloud will transform mobile apps
It’s commonly accepted by now that mobile application storefronts are a new frontier of wireless...
Using the cloud to broker small-business outsourcing
A new startup is using cloud computing to help broker outsourcing and software development work for small businesses...
Legal risks in cloud computing
Security, transparency and ease of data portability are among growing issues...
Verizon debuts cloud computing service
Verizon Business (NYSE: VZ) unveiled its much-anticipated cloud computing service today, which the company calls Computing as a Service, a deliberate departure from the approach taken by cloud innovators such as Amazon that focuses more on the needs of large and mid-sized enterprises....
Commentary: Cloud computing can solve business competition challenge
The saga of the telco and cable rivalry has moved to the business market place...
Highdeal CTO on cloud computing and new broadband billing models
Earlier this month, Highdeal, a telecom billing software vendor spun out of France Telecom’s labs in 2000, was acquired by German software giant SAP, giving even greater global reach to privately held Highdeal...
The cloud and the future OSS
Larry Dennison, the MIT computer science and engineering Ph.D. who co-founded core router vendor Avici Systems and control-plane pure-play Soapstone Networks,...
How Telcos Could Conquer the Cloud
Telecom providers could play an important and lucrative role in the burgeoning world of cloud computing by combining their natural advantages as network...
SIMTone: Multiple carriers launching cloud-based desktops this year
After engaging top-tier telcos across the globe for the last year and a half, SIMTone executives expect at least three or four carriers to start offering services over the company’s cloud-based PC desktop platform this year...
A Telephony Podcast | Pulling the PC into the cloud
Telecom service providers can offer PC desktops as a service and other applications over a variety of user devices with help from SIMTone, a startup focused on cloud computing. SIMTone CEO Mario Dal Canto explains how...
