OnLive and Juniper Networks Announce Partnership.

Juniper Networks and OnLive has announced that the companies will form a strategic partnership. Through this partnership, Juniper Networks will become the exclusive network provider for Onlive’s infrastructure. Also the companies plan to develop a cloud-based service that will deliver an interactive media experience to mobile, desktop and presentation devices, instantly and from any location. OnLive’s cloud-based video compression technology has introduced a new way to play video games. OnLive moves the computing function to the network so that the user computer or device becomes a display device instead. With this technology media rich content and application can be transmitted instantly and securely to desktops and mobile devices through the cloud. Wit

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EMC targets FISMA compliance in cloud networks

EMC is developing technology to track and verify the location of virtual machines in cloud networks, potentially solving one of the key sticking points preventing customers from using the cloud.

Because of FISMA, the Federal Information Security Management Act, customers who put sensitive data in cloud services need guarantees that VMs stay within the country, says Chad Sakac, vice president of the VMware technology alliance at EMC. This is a problem for a cloud provider like Terremark, an EMC partner, which operates data centers in multiple continents and uses live migration technology to move virtual machines, potentially from one country to another, he says.

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Cisco Completes Acquisition of Starent Networks

SAN JOSE, California – December 18, 2009 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Starent Networks (NASDAQ: STAR), a leading supplier of Internet Protocol (IP) based mobile infrastructure solutions targeting mobile and converged carriers.

With the Mobile Internet at an inflection point as IP-enabled Smartphones and other connected mobile devices gain rapid acceptance, service providers have been actively investing in this market. Global mobile data traffic is expected to more than double every year through 2013, according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index.

Starent Networks’ mobile infrastructure solutions play an important role in enabling service providers to scale their mobile infrastructure and monetize their investments via differentiated experiences. T

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