Weekly Top Posts: 2019-01-27
- Google Dominates CNCF Code Commits, Stackalytics Says
- SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: Vodafone, IBM Launch $550 Million Multi-Cloud Joint Venture
- Blockchain for Multi-Cloud Management? WANdisco’s Down to Boogie
- Microsoft Adds AzureDevOps Bug Bounty, Offers $20K Rewards
- T-Mobile Lures Former Ericsson CTO to Head It’s 5G Strategy
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: Nutanix CEO Calls Out VMware for Bullying Its Customers
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for Jan. 25, 2019: Nutanix accuses VMware of bullying customers, AT&T details its 5G strategy, and Nokia poaches Vodafone's head of cloud.
Vodafone Suspends Huawei Networking Equipment Purchases
The carrier said it will “pause” buying Huawei equipment for its core mobile networks in Europe while Western governments work to clear up security concerns.
Microsoft Snaps Up Another Open Source Startup: Citus Data
Citus Data offers an extension that transforms open source management system PostgreSQL into a distributed database.
McAfee Cuts 200 Employees as Buyout Rumors Persist
Thoma Bravo, the private equity firm rumored to want to buy McAfee, spent billions scooping up security companies in 2018. It also approached Symantec about acquiring that company.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — January 25, 2019
Google receives the largest GDPR fine to date; The Department of Labor accuses Oracle of wage discrimination; Digital Realty expands its footprint.
Carbon Black Reports 1 Million-Plus Security Attacks Daily
China and Russia were responsible for almost half of the incident response episodes.
Confluent Raises $125M Atop Popularity of Its Data Streaming Platform
The startup's customers include Audi, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, and Priceline.
Ericsson Returns to Top-line Growth in 2018, Hones In on 5G
CEO Börje Ekholm trumpeted the fact that Ericsson returned to full-year organic sales growth in 2018 for the first time since 2013.
Intel Still Doesn’t Have a CEO, Reports Q4 Revenue Miss
Intel has been on the hunt for a new CEO for more than seven months. Pundits expected the chipmaker to announce a new chief executive before or on its earnings call today.
Baidu’s Cloud Playbook Goes ‘All Out’ for AI
Baidu, China’s search and ad giant, has aggressively re-focused its business on artificial intelligence and connected vehicles as the U.S.-China trade war heats up and online advertising becomes less profitable.
Netskope IDs New Google Cloud Attack, McAfee Finds Ransomware
Threat researchers at Netskope and McAfee this week described new and potentially dangerous networking vulnerabilities.
Linux Foundation Launches LF Edge Group With 5 Projects
The new group’s list of founding members reads like a who’s who of chipmakers, telecommunications companies, cloud providers, edge infrastructure vendors, and others.
Vodafone Loses Its Head of Cloud, Automation Fran Heeran to Nokia
This is the latest in a series of major changes at Vodafone, which just said goodbye to a number of executives and announced large real estate changes in the U.K.
IBM’s Multi-Million Dollar Cloud Wins Keep on Coming
Another day, another multi-million dollar cloud deal for IBM, which signed a $260 million agreement with the Bank of the Philippine Islands.
CoreDNS Becomes First CNCF Graduate of 2019
CoreDNS replaced kube-dns as the default DNS server in the most recent update of Kubernetes. It is the fourth project to graduate CNCF.
EU Trumpets 5G Progress as Number of Trials Hits 138
The most important 5G pilot in the EU to date, according to the report, was carried out by Elisa in Finland because it used at least two cell sites and involved end users.
Battle of the Multi-Clouds: SD-WANs, VPNs, and More
Expect network connectivity between clouds to get more complicated.
Arrcus Joins the 400G Ethernet Switch Party
The white box OS startup, which is taking on data center big dogs Cisco and Arista, launched its hardware-agnostic operating system last July.
IBM Boasts Another Big Win, Touts Hybrid Cloud Prowess
One analyst puts the eight-year cloud deal France’s largest bank “around or somewhat above $2 billion.”