Telefónica Touts Internal Carbon Pricing Strategy

Telefónica says its internal carbon pricing strategy provides a holistic perspective on the efficiency of its operations while also considering its “exposure to the risks arising from the transition to a decarbonized economy,” Maya Ormazabal, Telefónica’s director of environment and human rights, explained in a blog. The Spain-based telecom giant presented its model at the World Bank’s climate change conference.

Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — May 2022

Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in May. 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 Julia King (jking@sdxcentral.com) for inclusion in the monthly Headcount column.

Zero-Trust Segmentation Saves Users $20M Annually, Illumio Found

A large majority (81%) of segmentation users agree this technology is a critical pillar of a successful zero-trust strategy, and they found it helps save an average of $20 million in application downtime and avert five cyber disasters per year, according to a recent survey commissioned by Illumio.

T-Mobile Vectors Voice Traffic Over 5G SA

T-Mobile US launched commercial voice traffic running over its standalone (SA) 5G network core in a pair of markets, portending toward a growing push by operators to consolidate their network traffic.

Op-Ed: Broadcom’s VMware Deal Is Chaos I Can Get Behind

Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of VMware is a bombastic move by the chip giant that if approved will cause nothing but chaos for both parties. Not surprisingly, it has received a less than stellar reaction from many industry observers, but I am here to tell you they are wrong.

SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap: Broadcom’s VMware Pursuit Aggrieves Analysts

Microsoft, Accenture Jumpstart Joint Sustainability Services

Microsoft, Accenture, and their joint venture Avanade announced a collaborative initiative to use data, artificial intelligence (AI), and each company’s existing sustainability tools to build software offerings that address horizontal and industry-specific challenges posed by climate change.

Daily Roundup: CSW Reports Attackers Weaponize Vulnerabilities Days After Publishing

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Gartner Crowns Amazon No. 1 Public Cloud As Microsoft, Google Gain Ground

Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintained its domination of the global public cloud services market in terms of market share and revenue growth in 2021. But rivals Google (No. 4) and Microsoft (No. 2) grew at a much faster rate than the longstanding cloud giant, according to Gartner, Inc.

Ciena, Fujitsu, Infinera, Cisco Drive Optical Network Growth

Optical networking vendors Ciena, Fujitsu, Infinera, and Cisco continue to dominate and drive that market in North and Latin America, which are the two regions that are also leading global growth, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group.

VMware Builds Contexa Brain to 'Identify Friend From Foe’

VMware introduced a threat intelligence database dubbed Contexa today, which gathers telemetry from different systems including network and hybrid cloud to better identify suspicious behaviors and abnormalities. 

Daily Roundup: Google Cloud AI Optimizes Wind Energy Production

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CSW: Attackers Weaponize Vulnerabilities Days After Publishing

Cyber Security Works (CSW) reported 22 new vulnerabilities associated with ransomware in the first quarter, a 7.6% spike since January, and the time window to patch before vulnerabilities are exploited is getting shorter. 

HPE Hit by Supply Chain, Takes Dig at Cisco

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released its latest earnings results showing expanded supply chain concerns that impacted its performance versus rivals like Cisco and Dell, but HPE did sneak in a dig that at least one of its operating divisions outperformed a rival.

Samsung Electronics Collaborates With NAVER Cloud To Launch Korea’s First Private 5G Network

Samsung Electronics and NAVER Cloud today announced that the companies have joined together to switch on South Korea’s first private 5G network.

Ravenous VMO2 customers used 39 billion gigabytes of data in a year

One year to the day since the merger which created it, UK telco group Virgin Media O2 reveals what the 39 billion GB of data its customers have gobbled up was used on.

Telia offloads 49% of its towers in Sweden

Swedish operator group Telia has completed the sale of a minority stake in its Swedish tower business to investors Brookfield and Alecta.

UK regulator launches probe into BT and Warner Bros merger

The UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority is investigating the proposed joint venture between BT and Warner Bros Discovery, which would to merge their sports content into a new entity.

Nearly One-Third of Cybersecurity Professionals Aim to Shift Gears: Trellix

Thirty percent of surveyed global cybersecurity professionals plan to change professions in the future, and 85% stated that the talent shortage is impacting their companies’ security posture, according to a recent survey commissioned by Trellix.

SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — May 2022

Check out our top 10 articles for May 2022 covering the SDxCentral universe of cloud, telecom, security, and networking.

Daily Roundup: Trellix Reports Nearly One-Third of Cybersecurity Professionals Aim to Shift Gears

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Arista Lashes Latency From 7130 Lineup

Switch and routing giant Arista launched a pair of products targeted at extreme low-latency requirements of the financial market. The products also mark an integration milestone for Arista following its Metamako acquisition in 2018.

Google Cloud AI Optimizes Wind Energy Production

Google Cloud today announced plans to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) and data management platform designed to optimize renewable wind energy and render it more cost effective than carbon-intensive fossil fuels.

Hybrid Cloud, Multicloud Becoming 'New Norm,' Says Cisco Research

As businesses turn to the cloud for their IT needs, hybrid cloud and increasingly multicloud environments have become the “new norm,” according to a new study from Cisco.

Nokia plugs in Microsoft Azure into its industrial edge platform

Kit Vendor Nokia and tech giant Microsoft team up to integrate Microsoft Azure Arc cloud capabilities into the Nokia MX Industrial Edge platform, designed for digital transformation.

VMO2 teams up with Greggs to dish up piping hot free data

UK operator VMO2 has joined forces with high street pastry stalwart Greggs to donate mobile data to families feeling the pinch in the UK.

BT beefs up its Industry 4.0 toolkit with Ericsson deal

UK telco group BT has signed a new deal with Finnish kit vendor Ericsson which will provide it with new private 5G network services for factories, warehouses, retail and others industry customers.

Daily Roundup: Netskope, Illumio, Jumpcloud Pace Zero Trust Fund Parade

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Telefónica $1B Bond Targets Inclusive Connectivity, Energy Efficiency

Telefónica is issuing a $1 billion senior sustainable bond that will allow the telecom operator to increase its focus on environmental and socioeconomic issues by targeting network energy efficiency and inclusive connectivity.

Brookfield and Cellnex reportedly eying up DT’s towers for €20 billion

Brookfield Asset Management and Cellnex Telecom are in talks about going in on a joint bid for German telco Deutsche Telekom’s tower unit for €20 billion, sources have told Bloomberg.

TIM signs MoU to merge fibre network with Open Fiber

Italian telco TIM and Open Fiber – as well as investors CDP, Macquarie and KKR –  have signed a document designed to bring the two fibre networks under one roof.

Ericsson to hire 250 boffins to work on 5G cloud research

Swedish kit vendor will hire 250 cloud native software developers, engineers and architects to its R&D facility in Ireland to work on 5G projects.

Rakuten: ‘This is the most important industry and it shouldn’t be left to chance’

INTERVIEW: We caught up with Geoff Hollingworth, CMO at Rakuten Symphony, who explained the dangers of ‘doing the new thing the old way’, his thoughts on OpenRAN, political pressure on telecoms, and more.