Cisco Throws Yet Another Punch at Arista
At Cisco's request, the US Customs agency revoked its own prior ruling in favor of Arista.
Ekholm Takes Helm of Ericsson, Frykhammer Will Serve as an Advisor
The Cisco-Ericsson partnership is one bright spot for Ekholm.
Microsoft to Acquire Deep Learning Startup Maluuba
The AI arms race continues.
Mellanox’s Infiniband Switches Give Machine Learning a Boost
Offloading GPU cycles could be a sharp idea.
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — January 13, 2017
Ericsson does CloudRAN R&D with China Mobile; Korean operator rolls out Juniper routers in advance of 5G.
Amdocs Will Contribute Modules to OpenECOMP
The Linux Foundation's new moniker for the project is OpenECOMP.
Mobile Edge Computing Creates ‘Tiny Data Centers’ at the Edge
Vendors jump on MEC, and ETSI creates a working group.
Juniper’s OpenContrail Is a Hit With OpenStack, Mirantis Says
When OVS won't do, customers are turning to Contrail, Mirantis says.
DT Does IoT with Roambee & Invests $3.1M in the Startup
Roambee switched from AWS to DT’s Open Telekom Cloud.
SK Telecom to Invest $9B for IoT and 5G
New technologies like artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles will be the focus.
Interview: Understanding Cloud-native Applications Is Key To Better Performance
SDxCentral recently interviewed Mellanox's VP of Software Architecture, Dror Goldenberg, covering topics ranging from infrastructure efficiency, key trends in storage space, and intelligent offload technology. Read the full interview here.
Viptela Snags Former Cisco & VCE Exec Praveen Akkiraju as CEO
Viptela hosts 90% of its SD-WAN customers out of AWS.
Cloud-Storage Startup Panzura Raises $32M
Like Nasuni and Ctera, the startup is rethinking storage for the hybrid cloud.
ETSI Delves Into Making Data More Relevant & Valuable
The group will act as a clearinghouse for data that is relevant to the Internet of Things.
Verizon Uses SD-WAN Monitoring Software from SevOne
Paradox: SD-WAN makes some things simpler, but others more complicated.
SD-WAN Summit Brings Together Leading Enterprises, Analysts and Vendors
Attend the online FutureWAN’17 Summit to experience first-hand accounts of the Software Defined-Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) transformation.
Q&A: Ericsson CTO on 5G Standards, the WiFi Angle, and Connected Cars
Ewaldsson says 5G will disrupt nearly every industry, from cars to entertainment
Baidu Picks Mellanox Switches to Support Machine Learning
Mellanox scores a win in its battle with Broadcom.
China Mobile Picks Nuage Networks SDN for Public Cloud
It’s deployed about 2,000 servers for the project.
Fortinet Preps Security for Intent-Based Networking
FortiOS 5.6 gets the spotlight in Vegas.