ALE, operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand, today announced a new strategic partnership with Sol Distribution, a leading UK-based Value Added Distributor specializing in networking infrastructure and services. Sol Distribution will provide new resellers and systems integrators with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise solutions with a focus on innovative, low-latency, high performance data center and core switching hardware.

With Alcatel-Lucent Network on Demand service, you can obtain your network infrastructure as a managed service and benefit from:

• Paying only for what you use; no capital investment is required
• Minimize paying for unused infrastructure such that infrastructure costs align with business revenues
• Refocus your IT staff on business applications and communications

Global Launch of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Cloud-based Collaboration Platform. ALE, operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand, today announced availability of Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow™ , an innovative cloud-based relationship management platform that connects business users, business contacts and systems. With Rainbow, employees can be more collaborative and productive, reaching beyond corporate boundaries.

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Rubrik, the cloud data management company, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Yvonne Prest as UK channel manager, following impressive growth in the UK just ten months after its launch into the region. Yvonne’s role will be to further strengthen the partnerships Rubrik has grown as well as creating a motivated channel community.

MacStadium today supports a larger number of use cases for Mac® hosting than ever before with exciting new progress in agile development for mobile developers working in diverse locations around the world. Recent data center launches in Las Vegas, Nevada and Dublin, Ireland by MacStadium enable developers and organizations in more areas of the world to access dedicated, remote Mac server infrastructure.

In 2016, MacStadium launched a data center in Dublin, Ireland attracting a new audience in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia. Hundreds of new developers in these regions have already taken advantage of the remote Mac servers and MacStadium solutions now available in Europe.

"We're attending Cloud Expo Europe in London to meet and speak face-to-face with this large, diverse new customer base," stated MacStadium CEO Greg McGraw. "This customer base has always existed in Europe and we're excited to finally have solutions nearby in Dublin to make developing for iOS and macOS on remote Mac servers easier than ever".

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The traditional data center network infrastructure must evolve to respond to new technologies such as virtualization and to new applications and new devices that are now connecting to the network. With SDN-enabled design, an application fluent data center is built on resilient architecture, automatic control and streamlined operations.

Alcatel-Lucent provides a blueprint for data center network evolution that offers low latency, high density and sustainable design while also incorporating the essential capabilities for optimizing the user experience, improving network manageability, increasing agility and reducing costs. With the Alcatel-Lucent

Pod for small organizations and Mesh for larger organizations, and models for private and hybrid cloud computing, application fluent data center switching is available as a means to begin data center network evolution.