Arista Lifts Its Mojo by Acquiring a Cognitive WiFi Company
At first blush, a WiFi acquisition seems a little far afield for a data center switching company. And Jefferies analyst George Notter expressed that same sentiment. But Arista makes a good argument for it.
Nutanix Boosts Its Cloud Stack With $165M Frame Acquisition
Adobe, Siemens, VMware, and Autodesk, are some of Frame’s customers using the infrastructure-agnostic platform to deliver apps from the cloud.
Segment Struggled With Microservices, Went Back to Monolith
The data aggregation platform provider jumped in early on using microservices but found scaling and monitoring challenges actually hurt productivity.
Deploying Secure Kubernetes Containers in Production: Understanding the Threats
Inadequate container security is increasingly leading to strikes related to ransomware, cryptomining, data theft, and service disruption attacks.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — August 3, 2018
Huawei's first half of 2018 revenues increased 15 percent year over year; Harbor joins CNCF; Linux Foundation and Hyperledger continue to grow.
ARM Spells Out Its New IoT Platform — Pelion
The company says the Pelion IoT Platform “definitely complements our chip design business.”
Fortinet CEO Cites 7-Figure SD-WAN Win on Q2 2018 Earnings Call
The security company’s impressive growth results boosted its stock and put it on track to beat its previous closing high.
Cisco-Google Hybrid Cloud Love Fest: Real Deal or Hype?
When the hybrid cloud product, based on Kubernetes, launches this month it will face stiff competition from other similar services, including Google’s own GKE On-Prem.
T-Mobile, Sprint Race to 5G as Merger Looms
Both carriers remain committed to spending billions on their respective 5G deployments.
Amazon Plots Its Departure From Oracle by 2020
Adding insult to injury, Amazon’s foray into data center technology poses a competitive threat to Oracle.
Zenlayer SD-WAN Connects the Middle Mile of Networks
The SD-WAN newcomer believes that high quality connections in the middle mile — between data centers and clouds — will be a key component of future networks.
Cisco Buys Duo Security for $2.35 Billion
Acquiring the two-factor authentication startup boosts Cisco’s cloud security portfolio and its intent-based networking strategy.
Kontron Acquires Inocybe, Will Compete Against Lumina Networks
Inocybe’s SDN controller will run on Kontron white-box hardware. And Kontron also gets Inocybe’s enterprise customer base.
AWS Cloud Share Slips as Competitors Claw at Its Lead
The worldwide IaaS market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner.
Headcount: The Latest in Hirings, Firings, and Retirings — August 1, 2018
Nutanix President Sudheesh Nair exits to become CEO of a startup; CenturyLink's VP of SDN leaves; Ariel Dan promoted to Cloudify CEO.
CenturyLink Gives Customers a Direct Link to IBM Cloud
This cloud collaboration is part of a bigger partnership between the two firms. CenturyLink already supports other IBM services such as its business resiliency and managed cloud platform.
NEC Bolsters Traffic Management Platform to Handle 5G Speeds
The TMS platform works with software-defined networking to allow mobile operators to manage network traffic at speeds in excess of 5 Gb/s.
Serverless Battles Vendor Lock-in With Beta Platform
The company also scored $10 million in Series A funding to further expand development of the platform.
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Eliminates Data Center Roller Coaster
The amusement park’s IT team selected Cohesity's hyperconverged appliance and software-defined storage after a run-off against Rubrik.
Istio Hits 1.0, but Testing, Education, and Adoption Challenges Remain
The platform has strong backing from Google, Red Hat, and IBM, but lacks official support from AWS and Microsoft.