Gartner sees 23 percent growth in global server shipments, IBM buys Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 billion, and Level 3 provides wholesale services for EtherSpeak.
Metro fiber provider Lightower Fiber Networks is acquiring Veroxity Technology Partners in a deal that will combine the networks of two Massachusetts connectivity providers.
Google's Senior Network Architect Bikash Koley said that machine-to-machine traffic is rising at Google and as such the company reconsidering overall optical network choices. Plus more highlights from the Light Reading optical conference.
Allied Fiber is announcing a $140 million dark fiber network running from northern Virginia to New York to Chicago. The company will provide local access to the network through 19 colocation facilities located along the network.
Juniper Networks (JNPR) has unveiled new partnerships, software and product offerings were designed to reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking.
The cost of video delivery over major content delivery networks (CDN) continued to trend lower in the first quarter of 2010, but at a more gradual rate than seen in recent quarters, according to industry analyst Dan Rayburn.
Its earnings season. Here's a roundup of first quarter 2010 results from Level 3 (LVLT0, Internap network Services (INAP), Limelight Networks (LLNW) and Abovenet (ABVT).
NTT America partners with OpSource on a multi-tenant public cloud, network infrastructure management provider Infoblox acquires Netcordia, Akamai (AKAM) and IBM team on app acceleration.
Verizon (VZ) adds a second data center in Hong Kong, while Verizon Business adds data center consulting and security services, and adds WAN optimization from Riverbed (RVBD).