Oracle’s Purchase of Talari Makes It the First Major Public Cloud Provider to Offer SD-WAN
Oracle had previously tried to create its own SD-WAN technology, but it couldn’t get it to market fast enough for its customers.
SDxCentral’s Year of Change, Looking Toward 2019
As we wrap up the year, I want to reflect on some lessons learned and preview a few changes coming to SDxCentral in 2019. When 2018 started, we took a hard look at what was valued by our audience and realized we had overextended ourselves in some areas and underinvested in others. As part of... ...
Ericsson Turnaround Could Limit Growth Potential, Says TBR
The report cited a divergent business path compared with Nokia and hinted at a potential upside for Ericsson due to continued geo-political issues for Huawei and ZTE.
Watch Out Networking, the Service Mesh Will Rock Your World
Service meshes could displace many L4-7 networking functions. But will they?
IoT Security Startup Phosphorus Builds Agentless ‘Update-All’ Button
IoT devices have two types of update mechanisms: an API call or user-initiated update. Phosphorus covers all that with its update-all button for IoT.
Kubernetes Security Flaw Expected, Won’t Be the Last
The latest flaw was coincidentally announced on the same day as the latest version of Kubernetes was released. Project members said security concerns do not impact the release cycle.
InterDigital Solves Mobile 5G Problems Far in Advance of Standards
InterDigital competes with Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, and Samsung. These vendors also do technology innovation in conjunction with emerging standards. But their standards work is “subsumed” within other business units, while InterDigital does its work on a standalone basis.
Huawei Is the No. 1 IoT Platform Vendor, Says IHS Markit
The Chinese vendor beat out Cisco, Microsoft, and PTC for the top spot in the analyst firm's IoT Platform Vendor Scorecard.
Telefónica Germany and Nokia Enter 5G Testing Stage in Berlin
The German carrier along with Nokia is now in a position to test use cases for industry and enhanced massive broadband.
T-Mobile and Sprint Get Nod of Approval From U.S. Gov Agencies
According to reports, the deal was cleared after Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank offered to stop using Huawei equipment.
Red Hat Flat as IBM’s $34B Purchase Nears
The company closed 100 deals valued in excess of $1 million and added more than 100 new customers to both its OpenShift and Ansible platforms during the quarter.
CenturyLink Combines Managed Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Threat Detection, and Visibility
The managed firewall, integrated with CenturyLink’s Security Log Monitoring platform, gives companies better threat intelligence capabilities and visibility across their hybrid network environments.
AT&T Launches Mobile 5G in 12 Markets
The launch is the first for a standards-based 5G network in the U.S. and taps AT&T's deep SDN deployments.
Packet and Netronome Team Up on Microservers Built for Edge Workloads
The networking-focused hardware is built for the Open19 Foundation infrastructure platform.
Industrial Internet and OpenFog Consortiums Merge to Create Industrial IoT Powerhouse
The two groups will combine memberships to develop industry guidance and best practices for Industrial IoT as well as fog and edge computing.
Cisco Buys Silicon Photonics Company Luxtera for $660 Million
Luxtera’s technology integrates high performance optics directly with silicon electronics, bringing what it calls “fiber to the chip” connectivity to speed the transfer of data between servers.
Ericsson Bangs Microwave Drum for 5G Backhaul
As operators roll out 5G, they need to get to grips with the thorny issue of which will be the best backhaul solution to support the higher data speeds and lower latency.
GE Spins Off Its Digital Business, Including Predix, Into a Separate Company
GE Digital CEO Bill Ruh departs the company "to pursue other opportunities."
AT&T’s Extensive SDN Plans Pave Way for 5G
AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said the carrier is at 63 percent SDN control of its network operations that can be virtualized, pushing toward its goal of 65 percent control by year-end.
VMware Helps Make-a-Wish Foundation Save Millions on IT
On average, it takes $10,500 for a wish. And the Foundation must balance the need to grant wishes with the need to update its IT infrastructure.