Fujitsu has added a Silver Peak SD-WAN environment to allow service providers to deliver pre-built platforms for their enterprise customers. The service combines Fujitsu's consulting and managed network services alongside…
Data Responsibility: Treat your data like your daughter..
IBM has published in their policy blog, a pieceĀ about Data Responsibility. In this, they seek to address the questions about data in the cloud age. First, a personal note. We…
Azure Data Box is Microsoft’s Snowball and Azure’s sneakernet
Microsoft's Azure platform is gaining a portable hard disk import capability. The shippable disk transfer device will bring them into line with Google's Transfer Appliance and Amazon's AWS Snowball (but…
Optus uses Riverbed Steel connect for SD-WAN
Optus are launching their Fusion SD-WAN service using Riverbed's SteelConnect technology. Optus Fusion SD-WAN operates as an "over-the-top" SD-WAN service allow its use on any other network providers platform. They…
Rackspace announces intent to acquire Datapipe
Rackspace announce their intent to acquire Datapipe. This will make Rackspace a global leader in multi-cloud managed services, as well as hosting and private cloud provision.
SDxCentral: Physical SD-WAN appliances aren’t going anywhere
SDxCentral has a piece on the current state of SD-WAN appliances. It distinguishes the three different forms SD-WAN can take (or at least for the purposes of their article). They…
Sputtered tape capacity boosts from IBM and Sony
The most cost and energy-efficient way of storing data is still tape. Offline data storage is still a major requirement for many organisations. For the fifth time since 2006, IBM…
Viptela to accelerate Cisco’s intent vision.
Cisco have announced that they have completed Viptela's acquisition, with a press-release that indicates this fits within their intent-based networking strategy announced last week. As predicted, the value of the…