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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Microsoft Earns Top Marks in Industrial IoT

Microsoft, C3.ai, PTC, and Siemens are leading the industrial IoT (IIoT) market with analytic services to enhance connectivity that enterprises can use with actionable intent, according to new research from Forrester.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung Hype Open Virtualization

Opening and virtualizing the radio access network (RAN) is a pursuit with almost unanimous support — at least on the surface. Operators, software makers, and equipment vendors have coalesced around this effort with varying degrees of force.

NetApp Treads Troubled Waters in Q2

NetApp continued to wade through troubled waters during Q2, and it expects these waters to remain rough through the end of its current fiscal year. However, every cloud has a silver-lining, and for NetApp the cloud remains one area of both calm and promise.

Samsung Taps HPE, Openet for Multi-Vendor 5G SA Core Test

Samsung says it successfully demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability on its 5G Standalone (SA) core with an assist from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Openet. The test, which was conducted at Samsung’s lab in South Korea, featured the integration of Samsung’s control, user plane network function, and orchestrator with HPE’s shared data environment and network functions, and Openet’s cloud-native network functions software.

Cisco Sinks on Rocky Q1, Dour Q2 Revenue Outlook  

Cisco forecast a revenue drop between 3% and 5% for the quarter ahead. Based on this gloomy outlook — and despite the company’s better-than-expected first fiscal quarter 2020 results — Cisco stock fell 7.7% after hours on Wednesday and remained down more than 7% as of this afternoon.

VMware Expands Nokia Test Integration

VMware and Nokia are tightening their embrace to bolster interoperability between VMware’s Telco Cloud platform and Nokia’s software applications. The strengthened ties aim to make it easier for service providers to run Nokia virtualized and containerized network functions on VMware cloud infrastructure — moves that are becoming increasingly important for 5G deployment plans.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

AT&T Down on Low-Band 5G Speed

AT&T is tempering expectations for its forthcoming 5G network riding on sub-6 GHz spectrum. While AT&T says it was the first wireless operator to demonstrate 1 Gb/s and later 2 Gb/s speeds on a commercial 5G network running on millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum, it’s not making any grand projections for a speed improvement on its forthcoming 5G network running on the lower spectrum bands.

Google Injects Network Intelligence Center Into GCP

Google is rolling network monitoring into its public cloud offerings with the introduction of the Network Intelligence Center, which seeks to help enterprises in the process of switching to the cloud address performance and optimization challenges.

AWS, Genesys, Salesforce Purvey New Open Data Model

The weight of a digital transformation looms over on-premises legacy infrastructure and vendors because, as Sid Nag, research VP at Gartner put it, “At this point, cloud adoption is mainstream.” The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% to $266.4 billion in 2020, up from $227.8 billion in 2019, according to Gartner.

Microsoft Bakes Marvell ThunderX2 Into Azure

Microsoft is turning up servers for Microsoft Azure based on Marvell’s ThunderX2 Arm server processor portfolio. The servers are the result of a collaboration that began in March 2017 between Marvell, Microsoft, and Foxconn subsidiary Ingrasys.

TIP Plugs Critical Mass, Expands Community Labs

Operators and vendors are starting to pick up what the Telecom Infra Project is throwing down. The effort, which Facebook launched in February 2016, is now a bonafide industry alliance with hundreds of active member organizations. Technology prototypes tested and validated by the group are now commercially available and being deployed in multiple networks.

DOCSIS 3.1 Takes Hold in Europe

Cable's competitive and complementary relationship with 5G, the industry's progress with distributed access networks and its flirtation with a 10-Gig future will also be hot topics at this week's Cable Next-Gen Europe event in Berlin.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Michael Dell: The Future of Tech Is Autonomous

AUSTIN — Dell Technologies announced an on-demand buying model for its products and autonomous infrastructure that includes its servers, networking, and storage integrated with VMware software today at Dell Technologies Summit.

Money Moves: October 2019

Here are some of the most prominent venture capital (VC) and merger and acquisition (M&A) news items from the past month. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s VC or M&A activity for our Money Moves column, or if you have any tips on that activity, please send the information to Sydney Sawaya (ssawaya@sdxcentral.com).

Sunday, November 10, 2019

AT&T Sounds Alarm on 5G Security

Enterprises aren’t doing enough to prepare for 5G security risks and need to put a greater emphasis on efforts to virtualize and automate security, according to a report commissioned by AT&T.

Juniper Guns for Cisco, Aruba With Mist AI

Juniper Networks rolled out Mist’s artificial intelligence (AI) engine across wired and wireless networks today to kick off its annual Nxtwork event. It’s the first step in what Juniper calls the “AI-driven enterprise” that will use AI and automation to troubleshoot and self-correct across the entire IT environment.

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