Saturday, December 12, 2020

Money Moves: November 2020

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

Friday, December 11, 2020

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Ciena's opex flex

Looking ahead to 2021, Ciena's CEO talks about its 800G systems, network automation and webscale supplier status as the company looks beyond the pandemic.

Daily Roundup: Ericsson Sues Samsung

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 newsletters to get these stories in your inbox.

Kubernetes Drops 1.20 Release Under Schedule, Security Cloud

The Kubernetes project this week released its 1.20 iteration, which is the third and final platform release for the year. The release comes after a difficult year for most and resulted in the alteration of the project’s typical quarterly update cycle and also came just days after a spurious new security issue was found that impacts every version of Kubernetes.

AWS Blends Cisco, 12 Other SD-WAN Vendors Into VPC

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed a new feature designed to natively integrate SD-WAN into its virtual private cloud (VPC) service. AWS Transit Gateway Connect simplifies what was previously a manual operation for the provisioning of AWS VPC via VPN and replaces that framework with natively integrated SD-WAN appliances and services.

Ericsson Slaps Samsung With Patent Lawsuit

Ericsson filed a lawsuit against Samsung claiming its infrastructure rival violated contracts for “good faith” negotiations on patent terms and conditions. Ericsson said the issue could cost it up to $177 million in operating income per quarter beginning next year.

Wednesday, December 09, 2020

CBRS drives military to experiment with private wireless

Open RAN, CBRS, 5G, public/private partnerships and IoT technology are all coming together at Colorado’s Fort Carson, where US Ignite has partnered with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to build a dedicated 4G/5G network to monitor smart vehicles. The network will be part of ERDC’s $4 million Fort Carson Smart Transportation Testbed and will upload and analyze data from ERDC’s automated shuttle, called the Mountain Express. Fort Carson is home to a large number of retired military personnel, many of whom use the Mountain Express for transportation. 

A glimpse into Microsoft’s edge compute ambitions

Operators such as Verizon and AT&T have made announcements about partnerships with big cloud providers, including AWS and Microsoft Azure, to co-build edge compute locations. But we’ve not heard a lot from the cloud providers, themselves, about their perspective on edge compute.

Nutanix lands VMware COO as its new CEO and president

On Wednesday, Nutanix announced it has hired VMware COO Rajiv Ramaswami as its new CEO and president. Ramaswami will take over his new roles at Nutanix, which competes against VMware, on Monday when co-founder and current CEO Dheeraj Pandey steps aside. Pandey had previously said he would retire as CEO once his replacement was found.

Verizon Business expands its SD-WAN roster with Silver Peak

Verizon Business has added another arrow to its SD-WAN quiver with a new Silver Peak-based managed service. Verizon is now using Silver Peak's Unity EdgeConnect Platform to provide its enterprise customers more options as they transition to integrated WAN optimization for their managed business applications.

Industry Voices—Cochran: Who needs to SASE!

Every enterprise and business entity needs to Somehow Administer Security Everywhere! (SASE!). Meanwhile, the magic SASE (secure access service edge) notion promises to simplify this challenge through the integration of SD-WAN and a mixture of cloud-based security capabilities such as firewalls, zero trust network access and more. SASE does not tackle the repercussions of relying solely on security in the clouds.

Tuesday, December 08, 2020

AWS Exec Predicts IoT Namesake’s Demise

Sarah Cooper has been working to advance IoT, and the world of machine-to-machine (M2M) that preceded it, for at least 13 years and she thinks the namesake for this technology is facing an imminent demise.

Arista Drives Big Switch, Awake Deals Into DMF

Arista Networks made its first big move to integrate its Big Switch acquisition, rolling out an enterprise-focused network observability software platform that provides network visibility across data centers, campus, and edge use cases.

Daily Roundup: Nutanix Steals VMware COO

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 newsletters to get these stories in your inbox.

Open Source Community Conquers 2020’s Pitfalls

The open source community has made its mark on the software development space through its one-for-all, all-for-one group think and pace of innovation that no single enterprise could ever hope to match. This has allowed open source-based platforms to spread quickly through the market and become the basis for much of the advancements across the software-defined ecosystem.

Nutanix Steals VMware COO to Lead Company

Nutanix today said it hired former VMware COO Rajiv Ramaswami as its new CEO effective Dec. 14. Ramaswami will succeed co-founder Dheeraj Pandey, who announced his plans to retire as CEO of Nutanix upon the appointment of a successor, earlier this year.

Firebolt Emerges With Guns Blazing At Snowflake

The data warehouse market is shaping up to become a battle of the elements as Firebolt, a cloud-native data warehouse startup, emerged from stealth today with $37 million in financing and an offering that claims to boast speeds hot enough to melt Snowflake’s hype into a springtime puddle. 

HPE Brings HPC to GreenLake

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is betting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will drive the adoption of high-performance compute (HPC) in the data center. The company today announced it will offer HPC clusters through its GreenLake platform.

Trump’s FCC nomination gets approved by Senate

The U.S. Senate voted 49-46 on Tuesday to confirm Nathan Simington to replace Michael O’Rielly on the FCC. Simington’s term is for five years. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and fellow Republican Brendan Carr immediately issued congratulatory statements, as did the heads of groups that will continue working closely with the FCC for the next five years. On the flip side, Democrats charged that the nomination was rammed through, designed to do President Trump’s bidding.

Lowenstein: My view of top priorities for the new FCC

When the Biden administration takes over in January 2021, the FCC will sport a new chairman and a 3-2 Democratic majority. In this column, I’d like to offer my views on what I think the FCC’s top priorities should be and what might be some strategies for fulfilling some of these objectives.

AT&T’s Stankey cites Q4 wireless momentum

AT&T CEO John Stankey said he likes what he’s seeing in the company’s wireless business when it comes to fourth-quarter momentum, and that’s in part because AT&T tweaked plans earlier this year to make them appeal to not only new customers but existing ones as well.

Monday, December 07, 2020

Verizon Slides In Silver Peak SD-WAN Expansion

Verizon Business is expanding its relationship with SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak that includes a new deployment model and more options for customers selecting the managed offering. The move also fills out Verizon’s SD-WAN portfolio, which also includes its managed Cisco-based service.

Verizon CEO Defends DSS, Details 5G Edge Strategy

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg today defended the mobile operator’s decision to lean heavily on dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) for its recently activated low-band 5G network, but he didn’t go so far as to admit the company had no other option. 

Can Open Source Technology Keep Our Planet Alive?

In the face of a looming recession and climate catastrophe, technology titans, service providers, and consumer giants are taking collaborative action and turning their technology to fight the effects of climate change and fundamentally transform practices that harm both people and the planet through sustainable innovation.

Cloudflare Moves to Keep Data Local

Cloudflare delivered an early holiday gift to customers with the launch of the its namesake Data Localization Suite. Through Cloudflare’s global cloud network, the new set of tools give enterprise customers the helicopter-parent control they need to manage where data goes and ensure it stays where it should. 

Untangle SD-WAN Adds VLANs to the Fray

SD-WAN Vendor Untangle launched version two of its SD-WAN router today, which adds support for local network segmentation through VLANs. The company claims the new capabilities provide small to midsize businesses with new tools to more effectively manage their internet connections.

Comcast extends support for internet access through June

For the third time, Comcast has extended its initiatives to keep users connected during the Covid-19 pandemic. Comcast will continue to provide free internet service for the first 60 days for new Internet Essential Customers, as well as keep providing free access to more than 1.5 million Wi-Fi hot spots, through June 30.

Sunday, December 06, 2020

Russian Hackers Exploit VMware Bug

Russian state-sponsored hackers are actively exploiting a bug in some VMware endpoint and identity management products, according to a U.S. National Security Agency warning issued today.

Common Edge Computing Framework Remains a Longshot

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is making progress in defining mobile edge computing integration standards, but the extent to which operators, developers, and cloud providers will embrace common interfaces is very much an open question. 

Open Source Accelerates Arm’s Data Center Fire

Not long ago x86 processors’ dominance in the data center and hyperscale spaces was uncontested. Today, Intel and AMD face new competition from a swath of chipmakers championing Arm-based data-center chips with more cores, lower power consumption, and greater scalability.

Will Open Source Cybersecurity Reach Critical Mass?

Cybersecurity professionals are quick to see the risks associated with open source — a developer may unknowingly insert buggy open source code into an enterprise application, which could make the company, its partners, and customers vulnerable to attacks.

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