Portworx and HPE deliver joint solution for stateful containers
Portworx and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently debuted a solution-based reference configuration, which enables enterprises to launch stateful container workloads with Kubernetes.
Containers are a lightweight form of virtualization, which break down monolithic applications into small chunks...
Mavenir delivers virtualized Media Breakout Controller (vMBC)
Software company Mavenir recently premiered its virtualized Media Breakout Controller (vMBC), which enables operators to host virtual routing, firewall and user plane data offload with white box routing.
Networks currently are under pressure to meet consumer demands for more...
Baudi deploys new Blockchain-as-a-Service platform
China’s search engine giant Baidu recently deployed a Blockchain as-a-Service (BaaS) called Baidu Trust.
Blockchain refers to a technology that enables users to make transactions online. The technology consists of records called blocks, which are strung together and secured using cryptography....
Aqua Comms to sell capacity services and raw spectrum for HAVFRUE cable system portion
Aqua Comms DAC, the operator of Ireland’s first subsea fibre-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, has been appointed system operator and landing party of a new undersea cable connecting...
ThousandEyes and Juniper team up on joint solution
Network intelligence company ThousandEyes is partnering with Juniper Networks to provide visibility into network performance and application delivery across hybrid wide area networks (WANs).
Enterprises that largely depend on the web often lack insight into their network performance,...
LG unveils ThinQ A.I., CLOi, service robots and OLED TVs at CES
Las Vegas, Nev. -- LG’s Chief Technologist I.P. Park broke into the company’s 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference with the introduction of its global artificial intelligence (A.I.) brand LG ThinQ. The...
Qualcomm highlights RF front end design at CES
In the ongoing discussion around 5G—the standard release, network infrastructure readiness, support for sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave frequencies—device compatibility is a major issue and challenge. With the 3GPP working toward a standalone 5G New Radio specification...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich begins CES with keynote presentation
Las Vegas, Nev. -- Intel CEO Brian Krzanich kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week with a keynote presentation centered around drones, autonomous vehicles and quantum computing.
Krzanich began his keynote addressing a security glitch...
Huawei CEO discusses Mate Pro 10 smartphone
Las Vegas, Nev. -- CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group Richard Yu spent the better part of an hour boasting the features of the company’s new Mate Pro 10 smartphone during a keynote presentation at the 2018 Consumer...
There should be quite a bit of embarrassment at Apple in the last couple weeks since they admitted to the iPhone slowdown. But is there? I wrote about this problem several times in recent years. What happens next--as Apple pushes three new iPhone models-- now...
House and Senate intelligence officials reportedly involved in decision
According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, AT&T has backed out of a deal with Huawei to sell the Chinese technology company's smartphones in the U.S. Unlocked Huawei devices are already available in...
Verizon and Fhoosh strengthen partnership
Cybersecurity software company Fhoosh announced it is collaborating with Verizon to boost the company’s Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) service with fast end-to-end data protection.
Verizon’s SDP secures the connectivity between customer protected applications and authorized endpoints. What makes the solution different,...
WhiteHat boosts SAST services portfolio
WhiteHat Security recently expanded its portfolio of static application security testing (SAST) services with the addition of Sentinel Source for Microservices, which is aimed at companies currently embracing microservices-based architecture.
Microservices architecture involves piecemealing large-scale monolithic code into isolated chambers known...
IBM report highlights service provider executives’ perspectives on blockchain
Although blockchain only recently made its way onto the telecom stage, communications service providers (CSP) executives are already expressing interest in the technology. That is at least the conclusion of a recent report by the IBM Institute...
Container security vendor premiers Twistlock 2.3
Container security company Twistlock announced the availability of Twistlock 2.3 with a focus on protecting container workloads. The debut marks the 12th release of the company’s main product with new features like cloud native firewall, app aware system call...
New Kubeflow project brings machine learning to Kubernetes
Google engineers recently announced a new project dubbed Kubeflow, which leverages machine learning to address the hurdles of launching convoluted workloads on Kubernetes.
Kubernetes is an open source platform that serves as the backbone of container orchestration management....
Zain Group, Cisco work to meet demands placed on network infrastructure
Zain Group and Cisco announced the former is leveraging the latter’s segment advanced routing platforms and WAN automation to introduce the advantages of distributed intelligence and centralized control to its network.
Zain Group is a...
Thales outbids Atos for Gemalto
French aerospace specialist Thales outbid Atos for Dutch cybersecurity provider Gemalto. The company has agreed to purchase Gemalto for $5.6 billion, surpassing Atos’s bid valued at $5.06 billion.
Gemalto is considered the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and credit cards....
Nokia unveils Data Refinery solution
Nokia premiered a new data processing software today called Nokia Data Refinery, formerly Comptel Data Refinery, which aims to provide real-time data for context-aware intelligence.
According to the company, Nokia Data Refinery provides intelligent fast data processing to power complex event...
Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain is a buzzword frequently making news headlines, largely due to the numerous use cases it opens up. With roots tracing back to Bitcoin, the potential of blockchain exceeds digital currency and to a host of other industries, including telecommunications. The only question...
Each year Ericsson looks ahead at consumer technology trends that will likely shape the way humans interact with their devices and with each other. In its latest report, The 10 Hot Consumer Trends for 2018 and Beyond, a theme emerges of a continuously more...
Bell deploys product with ONAP platform
Canadian telecommunications company Bell announced it has become the first company to launch an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in production.
The announcement was noted by Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking and orchestration at...
Kubernetes 1.9 moves Workloads APIs to stability
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced version 1.9 of the container orchestration and management platform Kubernetes is expected to be released December 13 with various updates and expanded features. The release follows on the heels of the...
EasyStack launches EasyStack Kubernetes Service (EKS)
EasyStack, an open source cloud computing solutions provider in China, premiered EasyStack Kubernetes Service (EKS) at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, with capabilities like orchestration, scheduling, security, operations and maintenance holding the spotlight.
Kubernetes, a platform that...
