Former Red Hat CEO Backs Tidelift’s $25M Series B
The startup's business model works like this: companies pay Tidelift a subscription, and in return they receive support for the open source projects they use from the developers who created and maintain these projects.
Bouygues Telecom Signals 5G Progress as France Gets Its Ducks in Line
France may have been propelled to the 5G race by the U.S. and South Korea, but its 5G roadmap and competitive mobile players support its ambition to play a leading role.
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: ZTE Hires Former US Senator to Lobby on Its Behalf
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for January 4, 2019: ZTE hires former US Senator to lobby on its behalf, T-Mobile/Sprint approval process delayed, Nokia names Fixed Network biz leader.
Kubernetes Dominates in IT Job Searches
Reports from job boards Dice and Indeed found that Kubernetes skills were highly sought after in 2018.
IoT Spending to Hit $745 Billion in 2019, IDC Says
IoT software spending will total $154 billion in 2019 and see the fastest growth over the forecast period with a CAGR of 16.6 percent.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — January 4, 2019
AT&T sells off its data center colocation assets; Cloudera completes merge with Hortonworks; NTT Com's 2019 transformation.
T-Mobile US Measures 5G Awareness With New Consumer Index
Scouting around for things to do, T-Mobile US has published a new 5G consumer index and claims the moral high ground for not launching 5G networks before its rivals.
Podcast: The Evolution of Network Programmability
In this podcast, you’ll hear from Sasha Ratkovic (CTO and Founder at Apstra), Josh George (VP Analytics, Data Science and Telemetry at Juniper Networks), and Ethan Banks (Co-founder at Packet Pushers) about the challenges and successes for network control.
Podcast: Network Control in the Multicloud Era
In this podcast, you’ll hear from Sasha Ratkovic (CTO and Founder at Apstra), Josh George (VP Analytics, Data Science and Telemetry at Juniper Networks), and Ethan Banks (Co-founder at Packet Pushers) about the challenges and successes for network control.
SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — December 2018
AT&T deploys white box cell-site routers in production; VMware CEO lists his top 3 priorities; Huawei's CFO is arrested.
Alphabet’s Playbook Includes Pumping Billions Into Networking, AI
Alphabet’s share of network and IT capex beat the two top cloud providers Amazon and Microsoft for the 12-month period ending Q3 2018.
ZTE Taps Former Senator Joe Lieberman to ‘Lobby’ on Its Behalf
William Plummer, Huawei’s former VP of external affairs, said that company needs to diversify its leadership and not solely rely on Chinese nationals in its relations with the U.S.
T-Mobile, Sprint Deal Approval Delayed by Government Shutdown
The $26 billion deal sits about halfway through the FCC's informal timeline for its review process.
Embattled Huawei and ZTE Get Spanish Boost
Some sources told the Wall Street Journal that Ericsson and Nokia have been slow to capitalize on Huawei’s woes.
2019 Resolutions for a Healthier NFV and SD-WAN Ecosystem
A collaborative approach from service providers might yield better results than one that seeks to disempower the vendors.
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