SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — October 26, 2018
Microsoft completes GitHub purchase; Verizon names its fifth 5G city; Nokia and Samsung extend patent license agreement.
Mesosphere Revs Up DC/OS With a Kubernetes Engine
The Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine allows for multi-cloud and infrastructure management from a single pane of glass and reduces cluster sprawl.
Cloud Business Sends Intel Data Center Revenue Soaring
The chip giant’s third-quarter fiscal 2018 revenue of $19.2 billion was an all-time record, up 19 percent year over year, with all business groups posting record revenue.
BT Replaces Departing Chief Executive With Worldpay’s Philip Jansen
The London-based telecom provider’s current Chief Executive Gavin Patterson announced in June that he would leave BT amid company struggles.
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.
Trump Wants a National 5G Spectrum Policy
The president issued a memorandum that is intended to make more spectrum available so that operators can more quickly deploy 5G.
Nokia Will Cut Thousands of Jobs Amid 5G Transformation
CEO Rajeev Suri told investors the company need to shave nearly $800 million in costs by the end of 2020.
Mirantis Rides Kubernetes to Supercharge Open Source Edge Ecosystem
The company admits that Kubernetes might not be the answer for managing edge deployments. But it says it's important to get an open source option out now ahead of 5G deployments.
Lenovo Leads Scale Computing’s $34.8M Series F
CEO Jeff Ready expect this to be the last round before reaching profitability. But he won’t comment on IPO plans.
Engineers With SDN Expertise Don’t Necessarily Attract Higher Salaries
IT organizations complain that the lack of SDN-specific skills among engineers is resulting in a slow transition to virtualization but engineers don’t have much incentive to get those skills.
Does NFV Stand For Not Financially Viable?
It's been more than six years since NFV became a reality but for service providers the transformation is far from over.
Making the Most of Big Data in a 5G World
Learn how Dell EMC can help service providers navigate this new data-intensive world to operate more efficiently and profitably.
Microsoft Cloud Biz Drives Growth, but Competition Weighs
The company posted strong growth across its cloud operations but also saw some of that growth come in slower than what it had been reporting.
Check Point Buys Cloud Security Startup Dome9 for $175 Million
Dome9’s platform will add new capabilities — specifically cloud management and policy enforcement — to Check Point’s recently launched CloudGuard product portfolio.
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.
Alibaba Cloud Brings Its Blockchain Service to the Global Stage
The blockchain service is based on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric and the Alibaba Group financial affiliate’s blockchain platform.
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.
Cisco, Nokia, Microsoft Back $85M Team8-Led Security Fund
These investors and other major companies also joined a Team8-led coalition that aims to rethink security by building it into network and cloud infrastructure.
Samsung, NEC Join Forces on 5G
The partnership will provide Samsung with access to the Japanese market and NEC with its first hardware foray outside of its home market.
CenturyLink Will Use Cisco-Viptela to Expand Its Managed SD-WAN Offering
This is the second vendor CenturyLink is using for its managed SD-WAN. The company launched its service in 2016 using Versa Networks' platform.