Samsung Takes Advantage of 5G Disruption to Score U.S. Carrier Deals
The vendor has sidled up next to Nokia and Ericsson as a dominant 5G equipment supplier to the largest carriers in the U.S.
Microsoft to Open Source Its Network Replication Software
The cloud is too big to fail. And Microsoft doesn’t want to hoard the emulation technology.
Google’s First Pre-Packaged AI Service Targets Enterprise Call Centers
The cloud giant also launched a reference architecture that companies can code into their existing marketplace to recommend new content or products.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — August 17, 2018
Oracle open sources protocol for machine learning models; IEEE publishes new fog computing standards; and Cohesity achieves AWS storage competency.
What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative?
Some view the platform as the death knell for serverless platforms not based on Kubernetes, while others tout patience.
Classic Rock and Cloud-Native Attacks Collide at Black Hat
Leading cloud access security broker (CASB) vendors McAfee and Bitglass talk security and cloud-native attacks at Black Hat.
Alibaba Cloud Eyes Expansion Into Southeast Asia With New Products, Partners
At the Alibaba Cloud Summit this week, the cloud provider launched a wide breadth of products that span serverless, data, search and analytics, IoT, and machine learning.
India’s Idea Cellular Will Use Nokia’s Cloud Core
Nokia’s cloud-native core technology will help the Indian operator evolve from LTE to a 5G core.
Cisco’s Security Business, Service Provider Wins Propel Fiscal 4Q Results
The company’s service provider business was up 6 percent year over year. But 5G isn’t the reason for the turnaround.
IoT Attacks Doubled in Two Months, Check Point Says
While IoT malware made its top-three debut in July, cryptomining malware remained the top two offenders, according to the monthly report.
F5 Networks’ VNF Manager Scales Capacity
The capacity is correlated with consumption-based pricing, which service providers have been wanting for a long time.
Dell Technologies, Others Invest $33M in Twistlock Series C
The container-focused vendor has now hauled in more than $63 million in funding.
GTT’s Internet-Based SD-WAN Gains Momentum From Acquisitions
GTT President and CEO Rick Calder said that SD-WAN is a "meaningful" part of the company's totals sales numbers.
Verizon Will Bundle Apple TV, YouTube Into Fixed 5G Service
Indianapolis will be the fourth 5G market for the operator, joining Sacramento, Los Angeles and Houston.
Intel Discloses New Sprectre-Like Bugs Called Foreshadow
The flaws could allow hackers to access data that is supposed to be secured in protected areas on Intel’s Core chips or in the cloud. AMD says it's immune.
How NTT DoCoMo Is Cutting Costs and Increasing Efficiency Based on ETSI NFV
DoCoMo’s implementation runs on Ericsson-provided OpenStack-based virtualized infrastructure managers and includes VNFs from multiple vendors such as NEC, Nokia, and Fujitsu.
IBM Hackers, Cloud Security Alliance Take On IoT at Black Hat
Armis surveyed security professionals at Black Hat and found 93 percent expect nation-states will target or exploit connected devices in the next year. So it really feels like an understatement to say IoT security was a hot topic at the event.
Exabeam Scores $50M From Lightspeed, Cisco, Security Investor Shlomo Kramer
“We are on track to overtake Splunk and be the next SIEM market leader,” says CEO Nir Polak.
Cloudreach Snaps Up AWS Enterprise Partner Relus Cloud
Investment firm Blackstone acquired Cloudreach last year, and has bankrolled a number of deals to expand its reach into North America.
India’s Sify Technologies Deploys Cisco SD-WAN
The Indian service provider delivers telecommunications services over a telecom network infrastructure reaching more than 1,550 municipalities in India.