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…
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…
Big four cloud providers continue to dominate in 2017Q2
Synergy Research has completed their analysis of the cloud marketplace for the end of Q2 2017. This shows that Amazon is still out in front (34%), with share exceeding the…
SDxCentral: Viptela Updates SD-WAN Fabric to Enhance Cloud Usage
SDxCentral are reporting that Viptela have extended their SD-WAN solution with Cloud Onramp. This was previously available for IaaS services in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Now it takes adds…
SD-WAN: What are the business benefits?
What are the business benefits of SD-WAN deployment? SD-WAN stands for a Software-Defined Wide Area Network. It simplifies network management. It reduces the cost of the network infrastructure. It provides…
Masergy Adds SD-WAN Go Managed Service
Masergy has launched their in-house developed SD-WAN Go service. This complements their Silver Peak based SD-WAN Pro service delivered last year. Deployed as just a single site, or across wider networks,…
Whatever happened to Blackberry?
A few years ago, you couldn't move in London on the Tube for businessmen checking and answering email on their Blackberry device. Now they have disappeared, being replaced by Apple…