Weekly Top Posts: 2018-11-04
- Weekly Wrap Podcast: Nokia to Slash Thousands of Jobs Amid 5G Transformation
- Modern Networks Enable Programmability by Interfacing via APIs Instead of CLIs
- Google Cloud Revenue Boosts Alphabet’s Earnings
- L’Oreal Deploys Catchpoint to Manage, Monitor the Breadth of Its Digital Business
- Ericsson and Fujitsu Are the Latest Vendors to Partner on 5G
IBM’s $34B Bet on Red Hat Will be Fun to Watch
If IBM does what it says it’s going to do with the assets, then it becomes a more formidable competitor against Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
Weekly Wrap Podcast: IBM Gobbles Up Red Hat for $34B in Hybrid Cloud Push
SDxCentral Wrap for November 2, 2018. IBM Gobbles Up Red Hat for $34B in Hybrid Cloud, Container Push.
Extreme’s Data Center Biz Rebounds in Fiscal Q1
Company executives hinted about a new data center product that is slated to launch next week.
Fortinet Posts Solid Q3 Growth, Wins ‘Quadruple Competitor Displacement’ Deal
Execs didn’t say which competitors Fortinet’s security products displaced, but it competes against companies including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point Software, and Cisco.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — November 2, 2018
Qualys buys Layered Insight for container-native security; Microsoft and Nasdaq partner on blockchain; Resin.io renames as balena, releases core platform.
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.
Nutanix’s Multi-Cloud Management Moves Into the Data Center
The software initially supported AWS and Azure, and the company extended this cost-comparison and governance tool to on-premises Nutanix environments.
Cisco Study Finds Enterprises Racing Toward ‘Preemptive’ IT
Cisco developed a four-step model for IT operations maturity showing where organizations are now and where they would like to be in two years.
Expanding the Possibilities With 5G
To understand where next-gen communications will be tomorrow, look to the 5G trials of today.
HashiCorp $100M Series D Renders $1.9B Valuation
The company offers open source-based software platforms that allow enterprises to manage distributed application infrastructure. It competes against companies like Puppet and Chef.
SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — October 2018
Verizon outsources IT Department to Infosys; Wikileaks exposes Amazon's data centers; Nokia cuts thousands of jobs.
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GE Digital Adds a Private Cloud to Its Predix IoT Platform
The company also enhanced its Predix edge capabilities to include analytics and device management.
Icahn Sues Dell Over VMware Tracking Stock Deal
A Dell spokesperson said the company will file a legal response later today and called Icahn’s lawsuit “unfounded.”
Is SD-WAN a Managed Services Game?
Gartner's recent 2018 Magic Quadrant report for WAN Edge Infrastructure provides a good overview of the SD-WAN market but its viewpoints may be a bit old-fashioned.
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.
Edgeworx ioFog Platform Drills Software Down to the Edge
“Our goal is to bring a full software layer down to the lowest edge layer possible and to make building for the edge as easy as building for the cloud,” says CEO Kilton Hopkins.
MEF Focuses on Revenue-Generating Services, Not Just Specs
MEF President Nan Chen said the organization has transformed from a pure-play standards group to a software and specification development organization.
T-Mobile, Sprint Talk 5G as Rivals Launch
Both carriers posted increased revenues and earnings for their most recent quarters, and their pending merger received approval from T-Mobile's shareholders.
Viavi Launches Mobile Core Emulator to Speed 5G Deployments
With the 5G Core Emulator added to its product mix, Viavi can provide complete, end-to-end 5G base station testing and validation.