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Contrail’s Founder Raises $25M for Volterra, a New Startup Focused on Business Use Cases
Ankur Singla says that solving business problems has more value than simply selling a technology.
NTT DoCoMo Moves Toward 5G by Updating Existing Base Stations
NTT DoCoMo and NEC also trialed data transmission between a 5G base station and a 5G mobile station using a car moving at 189 mph.
Istio and Envoy: Hot Topics Among Enterprise IT and Cloud Execs
With service-mesh technologies, such as Envoy and Istio, web services can effectively talk to each other and become building blocks to create applications.
Off-Premises Cloud Services to Reach $374B in 2022, Says IHS
In 2017 Amazon led the IaaS market with 41 percent of revenue, while Microsoft topped the list for PaaS with 26 percent of revenue, according to IHS Markit.
ONUG Members Aren’t Very Interested in OpenStack, But They Are Interested in Multi-Cloud
While OpenStack is widely used by service providers, ONUG's enterprise members are dealing with a different ecosystem with different issues, such as thousands of applications.
Arista Networks Enters Campus Switching Market
Arista is also working with HPE’s Aruba and VMware as part of its foray into the campus. This is an area where Cisco dominates.
CenturyLink Plans to Lay Off 2% of Its Workforce
Union leaders lash out at CenturyLink's CEO Glen Post, but it's likely the layoffs come from former Level 3 executives who are taking over leadership of the company.
Arista Predicts 20% Growth for the Remainder of 2018, But Stock Drops
Arista reported excellent earnings for its Q1 2018, but Wall Street, with its insatiable appetite, is concerned the company's growth rates are slowing.
Cloud Provider RapidScale Offers Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN
The partnership between a cloud provider and an SD-WAN vendor allows Citrix’s technology to run on a RapidScale’s global backbone.
Investors Give Juniper More Time to Improve Earnings
Juniper has been quelling concerns about cloud providers' transition from MX to PTX routers. The company now says a lot of that transition is behind it, and the math starts to work in its favor in 2019.
OPNFV’s 6th Release Brings Testing Capabilities That Orange Is Already Using
ONAP had started to run tests for various components it was developing. But it wanted to store test results and run tests more often. Meanwhile, OPNFV had already solved that problem.
Microsoft Beats AWS in Cloud Revenues for the First Quarter of 2018
Microsoft reported cloud revenues of $6 billion, while AWS reported revenues of $5.4 billion for the quarter.
Silicon Startup Innovium Closes $77M in Series D, Ships Samples
The company has developed Ethernet switch chips for data centers. It competes against Broadcom, Barefoot, and Cavium.
U.S. Justice Department Investigates Huawei
The bad news just won't stop for Huawei. This latest investigation seems similar to the case against ZTE because it involves selling equipment to Iran.
Juniper Unveils Contrail Software to Compete With Cisco, VMware
Contrail Enterprise Multi-Cloud focuses on the data center as part of Juniper's overall strategy to help enterprises deal with multiple clouds.
HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relations
HPE says that Huawei's claim that is is partnering with HPE is not true. This is just the latest public relations problem for Huawei in the U.S.
Huawei Names Vendor Partners for Its Three-Layered SD-WAN
Huawei is working with several third-party vendors to enhance its SD-WAN. These include Riverbed Technology, F5, and HPE.
Networking Gets Entangled in Geo-Political Feuds
ZTE might look to judicial remedies after the U.S. ban; Huawei lays off its Washington, D.C. liason; and Twitter bans ads from Kaspersky Labs.
iconectiv Brings Device ID Expertise to the Linux Foundation
iconectiv has already created unique codes for more than 1,000 virtual network functions.
U.S. Leads the World in the Origination of DDoS Attacks, Says CenturyLink Report
CenturyLink tracks botnets and the C2 servers they communicate with to thwart distributed denial of service attacks.