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Xilinx, Under a New CEO, Mulls Acquisition of Mellanox
Xilinx is renown for its field programmable gate array (FPGA), which the company's founder invented. A purchase of Mellanox could give it additional products to sell into the data center.
IDC: It’s Too Early to Determine 5G Vendor Winners and Losers
The 5G-related network infrastructure market will grow from about $528 million in 2018 to $26 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate of 118 percent, predicts IDC.
Citrix, Teridion Combine SD-WAN With a Routing Optimization Network
Teridion says its technology optimizes the middle mile of connectivity between public cloud providers and ISPs, but where enterprises have no control. And Citrix brings SD-WAN to the first and last mile of enterprises.
Telefónica Business Solutions Uses VMware for Its Virtual Data Center Cloud Service
The VDC service is based on VMware’s Cloud Provider Platform, and it enables customers to create virtual infrastructure combining compute, storage, and advanced networking.
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Foes Raise Security Concerns Related to Huawei, ZTE
It's no surprise that groups representing wireless workers claim the merger will cost American jobs. But connecting T-Mobile and Sprint to possible security risks related to China is a new angle that could have an impact on the deal.
400G Conversation Dominates Arista Networks Q3 2018 Earnings Call
Arista also said that due to the tariffs on some Chinese components that have been implemented by the U.S. government, it is adding a universal 3.3 percent add-on charge for worldwide customers.
NetFoundry Deploys Its Overlay Network in EdgeConnex Edge Data Centers
With NetFoundry, EdgeConnex will provide enterprise customers with private and direct connections to public cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
MTN Consulting Names AWS’ Infrastructure Vendors
In addition to using vendors, AWS manufactures a range of equipment from routers, chips, network interface cards, and network gear for high-speed data transfers.
MEF Releases SD-WAN Technical Specification to Its Members
MEF aims for its SD-WAN service standardization to accelerate sales of SD-WAN products and services like MEF accomplished with Carrier Ethernet service standardization.
Ericsson Collaborates With Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel in India
The work is part of a wider drive to develop 5G in India, boosted by the Centre of Excellence and Innovation Lab for 5G at the Indian Institute of Technology, which Ericsson established in Delhi in July.
AWS Cloud Revenues Grow 46% During the Third Quarter 2018
AWS cloud revenues are slightly down, but they're at an annualized run rate above $26 billion, compared to about $18 billion this time last year.
Gartner Ranks VMware Highest in Its Inaugural WAN Edge Magic Quadrant
VMware has more than 2,000 SD-WAN customers, while the second and third ranked SD-WAN vendors count about 1,000 customers, each.
OpenStack Says Its New StarlingX Edge Computing Project Is Important for IaaS
Jonathan Bryce, the executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, said that the scope of edge computing is extremely large, and StarlingX is needed to fill one of the spaces in the stack.
The Cloud Vertical Continues to Haunt Juniper’s Revenues
The company lowered its guidance for the fourth quarter due to the slower pace of expected deployments in cloud.
Fortinet Buys ZoneFox, a Security Startup That Hunts for Insider Threats
The company’s software enables organizations to see where business-critical data is going and if people are doing things with it that they shouldn’t be – either accidentally or maliciously.
Arista Networks Introduces 400 Gigabit Ethernet Platforms
Arista is predicting that 400G volumes will be relatively low in 2019. But the company cites Dell’Oro research that predicts 400G to grow dramatically beginning in 2020.
Harmonic Offers a Container Version of Its CableOS
The CableOS software core can be deployed on common-off-the-shelf servers.
ARM Reveals Neoverse, Its New Dedicated Infrastructure Brand
Neoverse represents a new unifying brand identity for ARM-based technology for high performance computing, cloud, storage, network infrastructure, and edge computing.
WikiLeaks Publishes the Location of Amazon’s Data Centers
The news comes as major cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft, and IBM are competing for a $10 billion, 10-year cloud contract from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Telco Systems’ Arm-Based uCPE Costs Less Than Its x86 uCPE
The NFV vendor says it can demonstrate more than 30 percent cost savings on Arm-based hardware. Telco Systems now has three different manufacturers for Arm boxes.