Saturday, September 19, 2020

Red Hat, Google, Rancher Top Managed Container Ranking

Red Hat, Google, and Rancher Labs scored prime spots in Forrester Research’s latest ranking of multi-cloud container development platforms, which is another way of saying Kubernetes-based hosted platforms. Those three ranked ahead of five other vendors on the list including VMware, D2iQ, and Mirantis.
           

Friday, September 18, 2020

Salesforce will add 12,00 jobs over the next year

On the heels of job cuts a several weeks ago, Salesforce CEO March Benioff said on Twitter Thursday night that his company would add 12,000 jobs over the next year. Benioff said in his tweet that Salesforce plans to add 4,000 jobs over the next six months.
           

SoftBank to sell majority stake in Brightstar

The private equity firm of Brightstar Capital Partners (BCP) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Brightstar, the Miami-based cell phone distributor founded in 1997 by former Sprint CEO and Chairman Marcelo Claure.
           

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Webscale operators ride the high tide of Covid-19—report

While various economies in general, and SMBs in particular, endure steep declines due to the Covid-19 crisis, web scale operators set several records in Q2. According to a report by MTN Consulting, webscale network operators (WNOs) hit all time highs across several financial measures including capex, R&D expenses and revenues during Q2 and the first half of this year.
           

AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile go live with ZenKey

ZenKey, a joint venture of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, is live this week on the first of several major apps and websites – all designed to make it easier for consumers to sign into apps and websites without having to remember passwords or flip through stacks of sticky notes.
           

Judge green lights Frontier's bankruptcy exit financing

Frontier Communications received a judge's stamp of approval for its bankruptcy exit financing on Wednesday. In the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Robert Drain approved Frontier's bankruptcy exit financing after the motion was unopposed by other stakeholders, according to a story by Bloomberg (pay wall applies.)
           

Madden: Is ORAN really cheaper?

Mobile Experts has recently applied its well-known cost models to the question of ORAN networks. And we can confirm that the conventional wisdom is accurate for rural networks: ORAN can save 34% in Total Cost of Ownership for a network that is deployed for coverage.
           

Comcast to deploy 1,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots for online learning

Comcast has had a couple of fantastic quarters in terms of broadband additions, and it’s making an effort to give back so that kids can access the internet for their schoolwork. Today, Comcast launched a multi-year program to provide free Wi-Fi at more than 1,000 community centers in the United States. It’s working with city leaders and nonprofit organizations to install these Wi-Fi spots, which it refers to as “Lift Zones.” The goal is to help students participate in distance learning and to do their homework.
           

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Sumo Logic IPO Set to Raise $326M

In a big week for tech initial public offerings, Sumo Logic today began trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol “SUMO” and hopes to raise $325.6 million from its IPO.
           

AT&T Hits Its SDN Goal

AT&T achieved its long-standing goal to virtualize 75% of its network functions with SDN, according to CTO Andre Fuetsch. Better late than never. 
           

Cloud Native Ecosystem Feels COVID-19 Crunch

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on how nearly everyone around the world conducts their day-to-day life. This obviously also extends to the software developer and cloud native community, which is typically viewed as a solitary environment that would seem to be immune from outside influence.
           

Telefónica works with Rakuten Mobile to deploy open RAN

Rakuten Mobile has established its first partnership with another service provider to share its learnings from building its greenfield wireless network. Today, Rakuten Mobile signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work with Telefónica on open radio access network (RAN), operation support systems (OSS) and 5G core technologies.
           

AT&T CEO: Fiber is the top priority

When it came to naming the company's top-priorities, AT&T CEO John Stankey said adding more fiber topped the list. Speaking Tuesday at the annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Stankey said AT&T's second key priority was making sure that it has broadband connectivity on 5G, which means even more fiber.
           

Nokia expands private wireless platform

With more than 180 private wireless customers (20% of whom are now using 5G), Nokia has a lot of experience talking to enterprises about what they need from private networks. That experience informs the latest iteration of the vendor's Digital Automation Cloud private wireless networking platform. 
           

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Pandemic Reveals a Work From Home Success Story

Keeping a distributed workforce connected was anything but simple even before the pandemic. With the onset of COVID-19, enterprises faced a reckoning as millions of employees set up shop at their kitchen tables, home offices, or spare bedrooms.
           

Comcast's Roberts: Broadband business is booming

It looks as though Comcast's Q3 broadband additions are blowing the doors off of previous quarters, according to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. At the Goldman Sachs 29th Annual Communacopia Conference on Tuesday, Roberts said the single best quarter Comcast previously ever had for net broadband adds was 492,000 in 2008.
           

Dell starts job cuts this week

On Monday, Dell Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke notified employees the company would start cutting jobs this week. Bloomberg reported that Clarke notified employees about the job cuts during a quarterly meeting. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell had about 165,000 global employees at the start of the year, including 31,000 at VMware.
           

Monday, September 14, 2020

VMware Drives Tanzu, Kubernetes Deeper Into Its Portfolio

VMware continues to tighten its embrace of the Kubernetes ecosystem by more deeply integrating its Tanzu platform into its legacy products. The move comes just days after VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told an investor conference that the company wants to “pave the world with VMware Kubernetes.”
           

Netskope Claims Most Connected Security Network in SASE Race

Netskope executives claim their network is the most well-connected with the most data centers and network adjacencies of any other security vendor. Specifically, 50 data centers and 335 network adjacencies — these come from cloud, content delivery network (CDN), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) partnerships — now support its NewEdge architecture.
           

Google Fiber to unleash '2 Gig' service

In a move that could accelerate cable upstream upgrades and DOCSIS 4.0 development, Google Fiber will soon launch 2-Gig service in Nashville and Huntsville for $100 per month, and expand it to most markets by early 2021.
           

5G Open RAN Failings Frame FCC Forum

A long delayed forum on 5G open radio access networks (RAN) delivered no surprises today. Brownfield operators paid lip service to open RAN in a largely theoretical sense, greenfield operators and some of their respective vendors claimed the mantle of disruptors taking on entrenched network infrastructure frameworks, and an incumbent vendor said it’s been embracing open interfaces for many years without recognition.
           

Dish picks Nokia for containerized 5G SA core

For more than a year Dish has been talking about building its new infrastructure-based wireless network using modern cloud-native technologies. There’s been a lot of speculation that Dish would emulate Rakuten Mobile’s new greenfield network in Japan and perhaps buy technologies from Rakuten. But today, Dish announced that it has chosen Nokia’s 5G standalone (SA) core software for its new U.S. 5G network.
           

Wi-Fi 6: Expanding the role of Wi-Fi in the enterprise

Wi-Fi is ubiquitous in the enterprise. Can you think of an office building, a warehouse, a hospital, or a college campus an enterprise without Wi‑Fi? With Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi has become an even better fit for the enterprise, for voice and data connectivity, and for new IoT and industrial IoT (IIoT) use cases. As enterprise connectivity needs grow, Wi-Fi has stepped up to the challenge with higher capacity, greater reliability and security, and lower latency, alongside a new set of traffic management tools. Far from Wi-Fi being replaced by 5G, the two technologies continue to develop and be adopted in parallel, complementing each other in increasingly integrated enterprise wireless private networks.
           

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Daily Roundup: Nvidia’s $40B Arm Deal

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.
           

Google Renews Climate Vows, Commits to Carbon-Free by 2030

Google is going all in on carbon-free energy. The cloud giant today pledged to run all of its worldwide data centers and corporate campuses on 100% carbon-free power by 2030. The new pledge builds on the cloud giant’s  previous achievement of matching its energy use with 100% renewable energy by 2017. 
           

COVID-19 Amplifies Existing Cybersecurity Crisis

Back in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown, Palo Alto Network hosted a webinar about how to run a remote security operations center (SOC). One of the first slides says “remote SOCs are the new reality,” and it includes a photo of Matt Mellon, who heads Palo Alto Networks’ SOC. He’s working from home, running the $950 million security company’s SOC, with his adorable toddler sitting on his lap.
           

SMB Cloud Migration Spurs Demand for MSPs

If the coronavirus pandemic has taught small to midsized business (SMB) anything, it’s that they have no choice but to cross over to the cloud. The workplace is no longer defined by cubicles, walls, and windows — or lack thereof. It’s a virtual space defined by cloud-based software for video meetings, chat, and file sharing. 
           

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