Dan O'Shea

IBM added 250 hybrid cloud platform customers during the second quarter and is seeing significant increases in revenue for hybrid cloud infrastructure, software and consulting services, according t | IBM gained 250 hybrid cloud clients during the second quarter, and now has more than 4,000.

As the nature of how we work becomes more distributed and complex, Cisco Systems is looking to enable a more unified and predictive experience for enterprise users. At Cisco Live! | Cloud Management for Catalyst, Cisco Nexus Cloud and ThousandEyes WAN Insights reflect the changing nature of how organizations use their cloud environments.

Consolidated Communications is running about one quarter ahead of where it had expected to be on its fiber build-out, particularly in its New England markets, where good weather has allowed faster | The company is running about one quarter ahead of its plan, thanks to good weather and efficient supply chain management.

Cisco Systems at the RSA Conference in San Francisco announced Cisco Security Cloud, a unified, end-to-end security platform designed to stretch across hybrid multi-cloud environments. | The company launched new Zero Trust and SASE features at the RSA Conference, among other cloud security capabilities.

Amazon Web Services continues to be a major money machine for its corporate parent, and continues to hold steady as the market share leader in the public cloud market, according to Amazon’s most re | AWS’ cloud market share remains at 33% with Microsoft a distant second at 22% and Google in third at 10%.

HPE later this month plans to announce new features for its HPE GreenLake platform, a step coming on the heels of the company’s fiscal first quarter 2022 earnings report this week, in which it tout | HPE GreenLake continues to pull in customers, and orders continue to boom three years after the firm announced its as-a-service transformation.

Testing and service assurance company EXFO has aligned with Red Hat to make EXFO’s Nova Active μ-Verifier service assurance solution available as a Red Hat-certified container. | EXFO’s Nova Active μ-Verifier service assurance solution is now available as a Red Hat-certified container through the OpenShift platform.

Juniper Networks is launching Juniper Secure Edge, a new single-stack Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offering, which is better equipped than physical firewall appliances to address the security requ | The Juniper Secure Edge solution comes as FWaaS is becoming more popular with the move to remote working scenarios.

Consumer information labels finally could be coming to the broadband marketplace, as the Federal Communications Commission later this month is scheduled to discuss a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking t | A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking would revive consumer labels for broadband services six years after their initial planned introduction.

Windstream Wholesale has partnered with II-VI Incorporated, which provides engineered materials and optoelectronic components, to co-develop next-generation transceivers that the companies said wil | Windstream called the partnership a game-changer for making 400G a default choice for large wholesale and hyperscale customers.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in its fiscal third quarter (ended July 31) faced both the highs and lows of the new normal in technology sectors: It experienced great demand and increased orders | HPE’s intelligent edge revenue soared 27% during its most recent quarter as the company continued to feel supply constraints amid order increases.

Kirkland, Washington-based Ziply Fiber is adding 14 more communities in Washington and Oregon to the list of markets where it will expand fiber broadband services this year as it continues its $500 | Following acquisition of Frontier properties, Ziply is just one indie telco among many to place a big bet on fiber broadband.

Coming off the completion of a $1.94 billion wireless asset sale, Shenandoah Telecommunications (Shentel) next week will pay $937 million to its investors in the form of an $18.75-per-share dividen | Independent telco will distribute $18.75-per-share dividend as it completes its shift to become a broadband-centric provider.

HPE has agreed to acquire Zerto, a cloud data management and protection company, in a $374 million cash deal that expands the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and fits with HPE Storage’s ongoin | The deal continues HPE Storage’s shift to become a cloud-native software-defined services business.

Cisco Systems intends to acquire Israel-based Sedona Systems in a bid to add more network visibility and automated operation capabilities to its Routed Optical Networking family. | Cisco is looking to increase automation of optical network operations and management.

Apcela and Versa Networks have expanded their ongoing partnership to enable Apcela to offer Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure S | The move allows Apcela to improve network optimization and security for its enterprise customers.

BT said Thursday it would “build like fury” to expand fiber broadband services to 20 million homes in the U.K. | Ofcom rules that BT Openreach will remain free for now from further wholesale pricing regulation.

Windstream Wholesale and Colt Technology Services recently conducted an optical spectrum solution trial in which Colt used the Windstream Flex grid open line system between Chicago and Ashburn, Va. | The partners leveraged Windstream’s Flex grid optical network and ICON architecture capabilities for the trial.

North American broadband providers will invest more than $60 billion in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) projects over the next five years, a figure about twice the amount invested in FTTH buildouts during | All types of network operators are expected to participate in the coming FTTH boom cycle.

Cogent Communications posted modest increases in off-net and on-net services revenue during the fourth quarter of 2020, though company executives acknowledged Cogent’s revenue growth is still being | Cogent saw revenue increase for the fourth quarter of 2020, but it’s clear the pandemic is still affecting demand in some segments.