AT&T Is Just Weeks Away From Launching Mobile 5G
Initially, the service will just be available in “parts” of 12 cities. The company plans to launch 5G in seven more markets in early 2019.
DT, SK Telecom Invest in Each Other’s 5G-Focused Pet Projects
The telecom giants will invest a like amount in DT's MobiledgeX edge computing subsidiary and SK's partner ID Quantique, which uses quantum physics to secure communication transmissions.
Fortinet Buys ZoneFox, a Security Startup That Hunts for Insider Threats
The company’s software enables organizations to see where business-critical data is going and if people are doing things with it that they shouldn’t be – either accidentally or maliciously.
Oracle Buys DataFox, Pledges to Embed AI Into Everything
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd predicted that by 2025 all cloud apps will include artificial intelligence. And likely because of this AI strategy, the company reached a deal to acquire DataFox and its cloud-based AI data engine.
How to Balance Cloud-Scale Efficiencies Against Business Realities
The widespread deployment of cloud infrastructure has led IT teams to demand freedom of choice, but that might not always be what’s best for the organization as a whole.
IHS Markit: Off-Premises Cloud Services Will Reach $414B by 2022
This new research increases predictions made by IHS in May as the cloud services market has seen steady growth in existing regions and big growth in developing regions.
Verizon Says 5G Home Launch Will Prepare It for a Nationwide Rollout in 2019
CFO Matt Ellis said there have been no surprises so far in the company’s four-market pre-standard 5G fixed wireless launch.
Huawei Weaves Kubernetes Support Into Its CloudFabric
The vendor is working with Red Hat on a plug-in to link CloudFabric to Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform.
Oracle Brings ‘Star Wars Cyber Defenses’ and Robots to Cloud Security
The company's new cloud architecture features "impenetrable barriers" that block threats and autonomous robots that find threats and kill them, said CTO Larry Ellison.
Arista Networks Introduces 400 Gigabit Ethernet Platforms
Arista is predicting that 400G volumes will be relatively low in 2019. But the company cites Dell’Oro research that predicts 400G to grow dramatically beginning in 2020.
Oracle Curates CNCF Projects
The move provides enterprises that are overwhelmed by available options with the choice of tested, open source tools that can be used to construct cloud-native-based applications.
Harmonic Offers a Container Version of Its CableOS
The CableOS software core can be deployed on common-off-the-shelf servers.
Why CUPS Is a Critical Tool in the 5G Toolbox
Separating the control plane and the user plane in wireless networks will allow network operators more flexibility with different types of traffic.
Pulumi Code Dev Platform Adds Premium Team Tier, Scores $15M Series A
The firm's SaaS platform acts as a translation layer between the language a developer is using to write code and where that code is being sent.
Redis Labs Integrates With Red Hat OpenShift, Hits 1B Milestone
The integration will allow customers to deploy and manage Redis as a stateful Kubernetes service.
Weekly Wrap Podcast: WikiLeaks Unmasks Amazon Data Center Locations
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for October 19, 2018. Ericsson's third quarter results get overshadowed by an ongoing corruption scandal.
Cisco’s Viptela SD-WAN Is the First VNF on Bell Canada’s VNS
The platform allows enterprise customers to deploy and manage applications and services that reside in the carrier’s private cloud. It comes with a 99.9 percent SLA for uptime.
SolarWinds Goes Public (Again)
The company opened on the NYSE at $15.30 per share and offered 25 million shares.
Cumulus, Facebook Push Open Data Center Interconnect
Cumulus Networks launched a transponder abstraction interface, which is a vendor-agnostic way to manage transponders. This makes data center interconnect technology more open.
Twilio Created a NB-IoT Developer Platform for T-Mobile
The platform includes NB-IoT modules, programmable SIM cards, and a software development kit.