Saturday, January 02, 2021

Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — December 2020

Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in December. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s movers and shakers, or if you’ve got a tip about layoffs and restructuring, please send the information to Sydney Sawaya (ssawaya@sdxcentral.com) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.
           

Friday, January 01, 2021

Is Google the Future of Clean Energy?

“Google is more likely to become an energy company of the future than a lot of utilities” Shuli Goodman, executive director at LF Energy, said during an interview earlier this year when she shared her latest prediction for what’s to come in the energy industry.
           

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

SDxCentral's Top 10 Articles of 2020

Despite the enduring chaos 2020 threw down, technology kept communities connected, businesses afloat, and tethered us to some semblance of stability. Here’s our list of the 10 most read articles of 2020, covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the year.
           

Cisco, VMware, Nutanix Among Biggest Tech Battles of 2020

The world’s biggest technology vendors’ battles over market share, rankings, and overall bragging rights continued in 2020, and this year the feuds stretched from the clouds to court and even to a galaxy far, far away. We saw Cisco and VMware duel over SD-WAN, while Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise moved beyond hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to cloud-delivered everything. However, the ongoing VMware-Nutanix feud stole the show with VMware filing an 11th-hour lawsuit against the new Nutanix CEO with just three days left until 2021.
           

FCC’s Pai circulates draft NPRM on 12 GHz band

With just a few weeks left in his tenure at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Chairman Ajit Pai circulated to his colleagues a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that, if adopted, would seek comment on whether to allow mobiles services in the 12 GHz band.
           

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

5 Ransomware Predictions to Ring In 2021

Ransomware and a red, spiky virus were perhaps the only winners in 2020, and both celebrated a banner year. But while 2021 will (hopefully) usher in mass immunizations against COVID-19 and the beginning of the so-called post-pandemic new normal, ransomware’s not slowing down in the year ahead. By all accounts, it will only get bigger and badder in 2021.
           

COVID-19 forces UCC rethink – report

A new report from Omdia says lockdown measures have underlined the importance of business continuity over disaster recovery and shunted unified communications and collaboration (UCC) to the fore of industry thinking.
           

Industry Voices—Raynovich: Will 2021 get more SASE?

If you are an analyst, jargon and buzzwords can get you in some trouble. For example, when I decided to jump on the SASE (Secure Access Services Edge) train in 2020, a few people grumbled behind the scenes. Is Raynovich selling out to the Gartner propaganda? Let me explain why that matters and also why we jumped on the SASE train—and why we think it has legs. 
           

Monday, December 28, 2020

SAP’s Qualtrics Files IPO Plans

SAP’s Qualtrics division finally moved on its long-simmering initial public offering plans that could value the customer experience management company at more than $14 billion.
           

Chua: Edge computing in 2021 —When elephants dance

Technology pundits and media proclaimed that 2019 would be the year of 5G, then reasserted one year later that 2020 would be THE year. As we wrap up 2020, the same folks declare that 2021 is the year 5G will live up to its hype. 5G used to be the source of national pride. Remember the April 2019 fracas between U.S., China and South Korea MNOs fighting for the mantle of world's first commercial 5G rollout? Today, consumers appeared uninterested, unfazed and confused by the super-hyphenated qualified firsts — "world's-fastest-5G-mid-band-for-consumers-within-100-miles-of-any-U.S.-metro-area-with-more-than-1M-in-population-per-U.S.-2010-census."
           

Pongratz: What comes after the C-Band?

With the U.S. C-Band auction on track to approach or surpass $70 billion, the question is not so much about the investment thesis but more about what this means for future mobile bands. After all, global mobile data traffic has advanced roughly 1,000-fold since the 3G smartphone was introduced. And even though traffic growth rates are slowing, operators need to consider the potential of another 20x of growth over the next decade. Expanding the available capacity will remain essential objectives for any operator that wants to remain competitive.
           

Sunday, December 27, 2020

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