IBM today announced a global expansion of its enterprise-grade cloud. IBM's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud, SmartCloud Enterprise+ (SCE+), is now live in Japan, Brazil, Canada, France and Australia as well the U.S. and Germany.
Cisco and SingTel launch Carrier Ethernet Network, NTT selects Juniper for next-generation video, IBM helps India's Nextra Teleservices.
This week Gartner and IBM release reports studying the true impact and direction of the big data market, while Teradata (TDC) launched a big data analytics appliance.
VMware extends vCloud suite to manage assets at Amazon Web Services, IBM and AT&T tout "network-enabled cloud service."
IBM has expanded its PureSystems family of expert integrated systems with the introduction of PureData System. These systems compete with Oracle's Exadata and SAP's HANA in the high performance computing (HPC) appliance market.