Friday, April 22, 2022

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Verizon CEO Hints at 5-10 Year Wait for 5G ‘Payoff’

Verizon entered 2022 with no mid-band 5G network and ended the first quarter with 113 million people covered by its C-band spectrum. The carrier also remains confident its deployment activities are on pace to allow it to reach 175 million people with mid-band 5G by 2023.

Forrester Warns Against Sustainability Emerging Tech Externalities

Emerging technologies like automation, blockchain, edge, and artificial intelligence (AI) show potential to power a net-zero future. But enterprises still must carefully assess the environmental costs of those technologies “and not just follow every shiny ball,” Forrester analyst Abhijit Sunil told SDxCentral.

Security Agency Adds ICS Vendors to Cyber Defense Project

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week expanded the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) project to include industrial control systems (ICS) security vendors and operators. The announcement came out the same day as Five Eyes cybersecurity authorities released a joint advisory warning of increased Russian state-sponsored malicious cyberattack activity.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

AT&T Enters New Era Wounded But Focused

As AT&T enters a new era, back where it began as a company singularly focused on connectivity, it’s confronting acute challenges that could hamper its ability to grow and remain competitive on 5G.

Oracle Sustainability Survey Finds Bots Trump Humans

Human bias and emotions can hurt corporate sustainability efforts, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs might be more impactful if left in the hands of bots, according to the results of a recent study by Oracle and CIO Advisor Pamela Rucker.

Canonical Ubuntu Update Gains VM Compute Confidence

Canonical fleshed out its latest Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) platform, touting expanded security and functionality updates to its widely-used Linux operating system. Company CEO Mark Shuttleworth also dusted off the vendor’s planned initial public offering pledge that sat dormant through the pandemic.

AMD EPYC, VMware Power Dense New Oracle Cloud Instances

Oracle tapped AMD’s EPYC 3 processors to power its latest VMware Cloud-backed instances. The company’s E4 Dense bare-metal compute instances provide customers with memory dense, high-core-count instances designed to power large artificial intelligence and real-time transactional processing applications.

Nokia Nabs Microsoft Data Center Switch Sale

Nokia is providing data center switches to Microsoft’s tier-two network architecture, building on past work between the two companies tied to the Microsoft-developed Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) open source platform.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Amazon Claims 100% Renewable Energy by 2025

Amazon today revealed an accumulation of 37 new renewable energy projects that will help it power all of its operations with renewable energy by 2025. This accelerates the company’s plan to reach 100% renewable energy five years ahead of its original 2030 target.

Monday, April 18, 2022

Can AI Save IBM’s Mainframe Biz From AWS?

You’d be forgiven for thinking mainframes were a relic of a bygone era. In reality, they’re responsible for processing nearly every financial transaction today. But that could soon change if public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) have their way.

Rakuten Symphony CMO Sets Open RAN Limits

Open radio access network (RAN) architecture enjoys a simple premise with complicated caveats — ones that require an understanding or acceptance that not everything can be truly open in a wireless network environment.

Mandiant Plans to Partner Its Way to Security Domination

After splitting with FireEye, Mandiant set out to collaborate with its former competitors, fellow security vendors, and cloud service providers. Google’s $5.4 billion takeover bid is unlikely to change that strategy, according to executives at the company.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Will the Data Center Industry Grow Sustainably?

Data center capex is expected to grow, supply-chain willing, at a 10% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2022 and 2026, according to Dell’Oro Group. Now the industry is grappling with how to achieve that growth sustainably, analyst Lucas Beran said during an Open Compute Project webinar.

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