Daily Roundup: IBM Gifts $3M for School Security

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. 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. The grants, valued at $500,000 each, will go to six U.S. school districts to help them prepare for and respond to cyberattacks. Read more. The 5G Global Enterprise solution Consortium will kick off those efforts in Thailand later this year with planned commercial services starting in 2022. Read more. Building on the success of ExtremeCloud IQ, Extreme aims to extend the service to third-party equipment vendors and 5G applications. Read more. The pluggable multiplexer/demultiplexer eliminates the need for dedicated aggregation appliances. Read more. The VMware Cloud Foundation update adds vSAN Data Persistence support for S3-compatible, Kubernetes-based object-storage via MinIO and Cloudian plugins. Read more. Cisco Secure Application continually scans code execution to prevent exploits and can automatically block attacks, the vendor says. Read more. “2021 is the year during which we believe that, for all relevant and significant parts, we will complete the catch up” on 5G, CEO Pekka Lundmark said. Read more. Xilinx EVP and GM Liam Madden noted in a statement that the combined product “will be deployed in a major greenfield 5G network,” which is expected to be Dish Network. Read more.