Data Services Journal

Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, announced today that it has won the B2B Customer Strategy Award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards. Broadview has been in the forefront of adopting cloud-based services to improve its customers’ operations, and as a leader in the cloud-based IP phone solutions market, has extended their expertise to cloud computing. Their suite of cloud computing services offers fully-managed enterprise-grade hosted business applications and infrastructure tailored to make it easy-to-use for the small- and medium-sized business. Broadview’s cloud-based services target the growing opportunity for Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Their cloud computing solutions allow companies to move software, applications, storage and server har... (more)

Sprint plays central role in emergency preparedness simulations at Coastal Bend Hurricane Conference and Evacuation Exercise

Sprint (NYSE: S) this week played a key participant role in the Coastal Bend Hurricane Conference and Evacuation Exercise. Sprint helped support over 500 participants with Emergency Satellite coverage, interoperable wireless devices, and other equipment and services. Sprint this year also served as a primary sponsor of the event, which simulates crisis situations for Texas first responders and public safety agencies. During the event, Sprint’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) provided one Satellite Cell on Light Truck (SatCOLT) and deployed its ERT personnel and local market ERT Re... (more)

Fitch Rates Proposed Frontier Communications' Offering 'BB+'

Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BB+' rating to Frontier Communications Corporation's (Frontier) (NYSE: FTR) proposed offering of $500 million of senior unsecured notes due 2021. Frontier will use the proceeds to partially tender for its 2014 8.25% notes due 2014 and 7.875% notes due 2015, of which there are $600 million and $500 million outstanding, respectively. Fitch's Issuer Default Rating (IDR) on Frontier is 'BB+', and the Rating Outlook is Stable. Frontier's 'BB+' IDR reflects the meaningful improvement in its credit profile following the acquisition of access lines in 14 st... (more)

Advent Wins 2012 "Best Technology for Start-Up Funds" Award by HFMWeek

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and LONDON -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that it has been recognized as "Best Technology for Start-Up Funds" in the 2012 HFMWeek Fund Services Awards. The annual award recognizes Advent, for the fourth year in a row, for its industry-leading platform for alternative investment managers,* a solution that delivers powerful, innovative features that support the growth and maximize the efficiency and transparency of start-... (more)

SSE Telecoms Lights 100G Between UK Data Centres

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced the UK’s fourth largest asset owning telecoms operator, SSE Telecoms, has selected Ciena’s coherent 100 Gb/s optical networking technology as the exclusive solution for deployment in its UK national network. By utilising Ciena’s WaveLogic™ coherent optical processors, the 100 Gb/s network, which is operational, can now connect the operator’s main data centres and enable a far more efficient provisioning of high-capacity services. Key Facts: SSE Telecoms, a strategic business unit of SSE plc (formerly Scott... (more)