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SK Telecom Surges Forward on Blockchain Platform and Ecosystem
The South Korean telco provider will use blockchain for asset management and digital real-name authentication. It is also forming a cryptocurrency hub to create social value and resources around blockchain technology.
EMA Report: Network Management Teams Shift Focus to SD-WAN, SDN, and SDDC
SD-WAN is priority for enterprises that want to make their networks more automated.
Cato SD-WAN Hunts Down Threats With Zero-Footprint Data Aggregation
The company’s cloud-based SD-WAN platform upgraded its security offering by adding a threat hunting system that eliminates enterprises’ need to deploy data collection infrastructure and analyze raw data.
Masergy Makes Its SD-WAN More Agile With Bandwidth On-Demand
Customers can now scale their broadband connections up and down on a schedule or in real-time.
How U.S. Tech Firms Are Spending Their Newly Repatriated Cash
Following concerns from Senator Marco Rubio that American companies are not using their repatriated cash to invest in the American worker, we looked into what seven tech companies are planning to do with the billions they brought back.
House Committee Snubs Trump’s Request to Save ZTE
Trump today said his support of ZTE came directly from a request made by Chinese President Xi.
Oracle Beefs Up Its Machine Learning With DataScience.com Acquisition
Oracle will integrate the DataScience.com cloud workspace platform for data science into its Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
RingCentral Unites SD-WAN and Unified Communications
RingCentral partners, such as VMware and CloudGenix, are optimizing their SD-WAN offerings to work in concert with RingCentral’s unified communications products.
Adtran Shepherds Broadband Forum Project on Application-Level Testing
While Adtran has been working internally to build models for application-level testing, with Broadband Forum it can create a standards-based approach to the modeling.
Trump Intervenes in ZTE Drama to Get Company ‘Back in Business, Fast’
President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that he and Chinese President Xi were in talks to resolve, or potentially lessen, the ban imposed on the Chinese firm last month.
Struggling BT to Axe 13,000 Jobs, Shutter London HQ
The telecom will cut costs and employees as it attempts to evolve its legacy networks and fend off regulatory impact.
Headcount: The Latest in Hirings, Firings, and Retirings — May 9, 2018
Orange Business Services names a new CEO; Andy Elder becomes Riverbed’s new chief sales officer; and a former Coriant CEO returns.
New Relic Boasts 34% Revenue Increase in Fiscal Q4 2018
The monitoring company’s four-year-old enterprise business continues to grow based on new innovations, customer wins, and integrations.
CA Technologies To Cut 800 Jobs As Company Shifts Business Model
The company said that it is consolidating the number of its offices and letting go of employees that don't have the right skill sets.
Apcela Launches Network Telemetry and Monitoring Agent
The agent AppMon's sensors are pervasively deployed in a host environment to generate precise granular performance measurement, impairment detection, and anomaly detection.
Telefónica Extends Its Nokia Nuage SD-WAN Infrastructure to Include SDDC
The service provider is using a single platform from Nokia's Nuage to enable end-to-end automation between its WAN overlay service and its data center overlay service.
NetScout Revenue Sinks 27% in Q4 Fiscal 2018
The company also reported more downward guidance for its upcoming fiscal year, but remains optimistic about its product revenue.
Radware Reports Third Consecutive Quarter of Double Digit Growth
The company’s recent transition to a SaaS subscription model proves favorable as it reported an 11 percent increase in revenue year over year, along with several deals in the first quarter of 2018.
An Influx of Microservices Creates New Requirements for APM, Report Says
A Dimensional Research report found that 73 percent of enterprises using microservices had application performance issues. Startups LightStep and Instana are working on APM tools to address the complexity and dynamism of these environments.
Cisco’s IoT, Collaboration Head Rowan Trollope Exits to Join Cloud Startup as CEO
The news of Trollope's departure comes as Cisco announced its intent to acquire AI startup Accompany. Cisco appointed Accompany's CEO and founder Amy Chang as SVP of its Collaboration group.