Ovum finds stronger North American ON market propels Ciena, Fujitsu and Infinera forward in 3Q13

Global optical networking (ON) spending in 3Q13 is down according to the latest market share alert* from Ovum, the global market analyst firm. Revenues of US$3.7bn have decreased 9 percent from 2Q13 and were flat against the year-ago quarter, while sequential and year-over-year gains in North America have mitigated declines in Asia-Pacific, EMEA and South & Central America. Market spending continues to fluctuate by quarter depending on region/sub region and seasonal spending patterns,...

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China rates itself as world’s #1

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Tier 3 forms foundation of CenturyLink Cloud, new Seattle-based Cloud Development Center

CenturyLink, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Tier 3, an innovative provider of public cloud services based in the Seattle area. Tier 3's cloud platform is immediately available as "CenturyLink Cloud." In addition, Tier 3's products, roadmap and vision are now the foundation of CenturyLink's cloud strategy and anchor the new Seattle-based CenturyLink Cloud Development Center.

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Nexenta to collaborate around CloudStack solutions

Nexenta has announced a collaboration with Opscode® Enterprise Chef™ to help CloudStack customers provision and automate their storage, creating the Software-Defined Data Centre of the future. The solution will be demonstrated at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 20-22 November.

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