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Nokia Veers From Red Hat OpenStack With Latest CloudBand Update
The latest update uses an in-house developed open source version of OpenStack that provides for more agility and a smaller footprint to support edge computing environments.
Germany Jumps on Huawei 5G Ban Plans, Says Report
Government officials want to prevent German telecom operators from using equipment from Chinese firms to construct their 5G networks. This would be similar to moves made by the U.S. and Australia.
Rancher Labs Ropes Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei Support Into Container Platform
The company now supports the six largest Kubernetes providers in the world.
Red Hat Squeezes OpenStack, OpenShift Closer Together
The OpenStack Platform 14 update makes it easier to install and run OpenShift in that environment and to run Kubernetes-orchestrated containers on bare metal.
Nokia Cleaves Customer Operations With Focus on 5G
The company's current global head of Customer Operations Ashish Chowdhary will depart Nokia on Jan. 1, 2019. He will take a leadership position at another unnamed company.
VMware’s Heptio Deal Shows the Open Source Water Is Warm and Inviting
Some expect the open source M&A wave to hit its apex next year. I say "why wait?"
Intel Accelerates Multi-mode 5G Chip Launch
The chip design is unique in the market because it supports legacy 2G, 3G, 4G LTE, and the various 5G specifications on one module.
Cisco, Huawei Among Alef Mobitech Edge Platform Test Partners
The software-based platform is focused on mobility network functions needed to interconnect any edge application without any upgrades to the underlying network or origin cloud.
Broadcom Cuts More Than 300 CA Technologies Jobs, Report Says
Broadcom closed on its $18.9 billion acquisition of CA earlier this week.
Mimik Unleashes the Server Power of Edge Devices
The platform minimizes the need for cloud resources to power edge devices by turning ordinary devices, like a mobile phone, into a mini cloud server.
Nokia Strikes Infosys Deal That Targets Enterprise Digitization
The vendor recently announced plans to slash thousands of jobs as part of a major corporate restructuring.
Packet Pockets Edge Data Center Deal With SBA
Packet is working with other tower owners besides SBA on similar projects. The company plans to install around 50 new sites.
VMware Snaps Up Heptio to Boost Its Kubernetes Cred
The deal was based on growing demand from enterprise customers that want to use Kubernetes as the basis for their cloud-agnostic infrastructure.
TriggerMesh Taps Knative for Serverless Management Platform
Developers are able to manage their serverless and FaaS deployments from the platform to work across different infrastructure environments.
IBM’s $34B Bet on Red Hat Will be Fun to Watch
If IBM does what it says it’s going to do with the assets, then it becomes a more formidable competitor against Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
HashiCorp $100M Series D Renders $1.9B Valuation
The company offers open source-based software platforms that allow enterprises to manage distributed application infrastructure. It competes against companies like Puppet and Chef.
Edgeworx ioFog Platform Drills Software Down to the Edge
“Our goal is to bring a full software layer down to the lowest edge layer possible and to make building for the edge as easy as building for the cloud,” says CEO Kilton Hopkins.
T-Mobile, Sprint Talk 5G as Rivals Launch
Both carriers posted increased revenues and earnings for their most recent quarters, and their pending merger received approval from T-Mobile's shareholders.
IBM’s Acquisition of Red Hat Hinges on Integration
Red Hat is viewed as an open source software beacon and some worry a heavy-handed integration from IBM could snuff out that light.
Nokia WaveSuite Taps SDN to Boost Optical Network Control
The platform uses the MEF 63 Optical Transport Services specification focused on Layer 1 orchestration but is not intended as an end-to-end orchestrator.