Silver Peak enables high performance VMware vCloud Hybrid Service

Silver Peak has collaborated with VMware to offer its virtual WAN optimisation software to support deployments on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service. Silver Peak accelerates data transfers to the cloud and provides an on-going LAN-like experience for cloud-hosted applications, enabling VMware vCloud Hybrid Service users to more quickly and easily transition to a public cloud or hybrid cloud environment.

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Wind River becomes Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation

Wind River is now a Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. As part of the OpenStack community, Wind River will help apply OpenStack to telecommunications infrastructure and collaborate with other members to further promote and support open source cloud infrastructure advancements across industries.

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ACOnet trials ADVA 100G Metro for intensive research and education demands

ADVA Optical Networking says that ACOnet, the Austrian Academic Computer Network, has successfully trialed the ADVA 100G Metro in its research and education infrastructure. The trial stretched over 450km, between the University of Salzburg and the University of Vienna. The purpose of the trial was to explore ways ACOnet can use direct detect 100G technology to transport data both domestically and internationally. The trial was also designed to test if the ADVA 100G Metro could simply plug into...

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Openstack support

Astute Networks™,Inc. has announced its support of OpenStack, an open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. By supporting the OpenStack Cinder standard as both an iSCSI target and a NFS server, Astute's ViSX appliance offers end users and cloud service providers alike a flexible and cost effective method for meeting their storage and application performance requirements when deploying infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

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TDAzlan expands

TDAzlan, the value-added enterprise distribution arm of Tech Data UK, has extended the reach of its state-of-the-art Business Solutions Centre (BSC) in Birmingham to its offices in Heathrow, with further extensions to Warrington, London and Basingstoke planned for the near future.

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Talking FSP 3000 OLS for ultimate DCI flexibility at OFC

Gareth Spence talks to Paul Morkel at OFC 2019 about the launch of ADVA’s newly expanded FSP 3000 open line system and how it’s the ultimate one-stop shop for all DCI applications.

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