Daily Roundup: Nokia Warns of COVID-19 Related Traffic Spike

In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter to get these stories in your inbox. In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter to get these stories in your inbox. Nokia warns that network traffic may spike again, especially as COVID-19 infections surge and public health restrictions are being re-instituted in many regions. Read more. The company’s largest funding round to date helped to push the SASE pioneer into unicorn territory. Read more. The company is developing 5G modems for industrial IoT with integrated artificial intelligence capabilities. Read more. The partnership caps a busy year for the startup, which raised $167.2 million this year alone in two funding rounds that sent its valuation soaring above $9 billion. Read more. Data Cloud aims to free data from silos and bunkers so that users can drive far greater faster insights to act on, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman said. Read more. AT&T said its ability to use the same open hardware for core and edge routing demonstrates the power of open source systems. Read more. The commercial product works with VMware’s NSX-T platform to support container connectivity for Kubernetes clusters in a software-defined data center. Read more. The appliance effectively turns an employee’s home into a branch office, creating a secure VPN tunnel to the nearest corporate office or data center. Read more.