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Cloud consolidation with $34 billion IBM acquisition of Red Hat

IBM wants to maintain Red Hat "open source innovation" As it stands, IBM's cloud customers have moved around 20% of their workloads to the cloud, according to CEO Ginni Rometty. She called that chapter one. Chapter two is moving the other 80%, which she said...

Signaling and network slice-as-a-service mark Oracle 5G strategy

Oracle looking from non-standalone 5G NR to standalone 5G NR Current and near-term standards-based 5G deployments are focused on the non-standalone 5G New Radio specification, but that's just a first step. That will be followed by an upgrade cycle to the standalone 5G NR spec,...

Four edge computing market predictions

Analysts’ predictions for the edge computing market include rosy expectations, although they vary significantly in sizing the market and its rate of growth over the next few years. Gartner, in a report commissioned by Equinix, went so far as to posit that “the edge...

On strong Q2, VMware pushes multi-cloud enablement

Service providers key link between enterprises and multi-cloud opportunity: 451 Research Cloud infrastructure vendor VMWare on Aug. 23 reported a 13% year-over-year increase in Q2 revenues to $2.17 billion, which CEO Pat Gelsinger chalked up to the expanding adoption of cloud-based solutions as enterprises, service...

Orange Poland trialed cloud RAN with Nokia

RAN is part of larger 5G, cloud strategy Orange Poland is continuing with its 5G strategy most recently by working with network infrastructure vendor Nokia to test out a cloud-based radio access network. The cloud RAN trial, which ran from March to May, saw radio...

Transforming legacy infrastructure into powerful and profitable next-generation cloud communications services (Reader Forum)

To quote the famous Rolling Stones song, “You can’t always get what you want, but you can get what you need.” That’s wisdom for communications service providers (CSPs) and the large, global enterprises, who own networks that rival the size, scope and scale of...

Cloud-native VNFs for 5G highlighted in HPE, Deutsche Telekom proof-of-concept

Cloud-native approach necessary to deal with complexity of 5G As it continues to develop, 5G will eventually require a fully virtualized, software-controlled network in order to automate the complexity of network management and service delivery. Although we're not there yet, test and proofs-of-concept like Deutsche...

Kagan: Frontier AnyWare lets you manage your company from the cloud

Frontier Business is expanding their AnyWare business service offering. They let users manage their company’s usage through the Frontier Cloud. This service is growing into a fully integrated set of services that is easy to manage for any business over the cloud. Let’s take...

The advantage of running a telco ranch vs. a wireless pet store (Reader Forum)

With the transformation from hardware-centric networks to networked cloud platforms, the relationship between telecommunications companies (telcos) and their server(s) is inherently changing. Cloud computing introduced a software design paradigm that required a change in the ways enterprise and telco approach operations, and with it...

3 strategic imperatives for winning the secure cloud transition (Reader Forum)

Networking and security IT infrastructures have evolved to a level of complexity unmanageable by operators and enterprises using a conventional approach. The ongoing reliance upon legacy network hardware and disjointed WAN architectures inhibit the operational agility required by global organizations looking to digitize business...

Wireless smart farming to keep frost away from citrus

Computer scientists from UCSB team up with citrus researchers to make a smart farm system that reports temperatures and may eventually automate the use of wind machines that keep frost off citrus crops. Computer science researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara are using...

On-premise enterprise data center investment booming, report says

Private networks another potential boon to enterprise data center segment Adoption of cloud-based services has long been transforming the way business functions. In addition to investing big to access public cloud's like those operated by Google and Amazon, investments in on-premise enterprise data center infrastructure...

AT&T to sell data center operations to Brookfield Infrastructure

In a $1.1 billion deal, AT&T is transferring its data center operations to Brookfield. AT&T is selling its data centers to Brookfield Infrastructure for $1.1 billion and entering into a strategic alliance with the company which includes a colocation services agreement that will enable AT&T...

Nokia deploys its largest cloud packet core for Vodafone India

Cloud packet core will support nearly 8 million subs Bangalore, India, a tech hub in the rapidly developing subcontinent, just got a little more connected with Vodafone India's deployment of a Nokia cloud packet core that will support some 7.8 million enterprise and consumer users. Vodafone...

Infrastructure key to enabling intelligent edge computing

AWS exec lays out four principles guiding edge computing vision According to Satyen Yadav, general manager, IoT and edge services, Amazon Web Services, the network edge is all around us—at our homes, along our roadways, at the hospitals we visit and at the manufacturing facilities where...

Bringing software-defined networking to the data center

Nuage Networks projects highlight progress toward network slicing with data center SDN The long-term vision of 5G includes network slicing--using virtualized network functions and software-defined networking (SDN) to enable operator networks to automatically create service-specific data pipes that precisely meet the needs of a particular...

Nokia AirFrame edge computing meets open source

Nokia announces its AirFrame Open Edge computing server blade. SAN JOSE, Calif.--Nokia revealed its building block for edge deployments and small data centers at the NFV World Congress yesterday. The Airframe Open Edge server is compact and uses open-source software to manage network functions. The server...

Cloud Foundry eyes China’s market with Alibaba Cloud’s membership

Alibaba Cloud joins Cloud Foundry as gold member Alibaba Cloud announced it is deploying Cloud Foundry on its infrastructure alongside joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member. Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi-cloud application platform-as-a-service governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. According to...

Comparing public, private and hybrid clouds

Three different models Nearly everyone uses the cloud, but not everyone uses the same type of cloud. There are in fact three different cloud models, including public, private and hybrid clouds. To help determine which cloud best suits your company’s needs, the following explores how...

Kaspersky Lab launches security offering for hybrid cloud visibility

Kaspersky Lab announces Hybrid Cloud Security offering Kaspersky Lab is expanding its virtualization and cloud security portfolio with the launch of its Hybrid Cloud Security offering. As the name suggests, the purpose of the solution is to secure hybrid clouds environments. It provides API-integration with...

Docker incorporates Kubernetes into Enterprise Edition 2.0

Docker launches Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 Docker recently rolled out Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0, which enables customers to run multi-container applications with either Kubernetes or Swarm. Docker EE emerged last year as a Container-as-a-Service platform that secures applications across disparate infrastructure, both on-premises and in the...

VMware’s vSphere, vSAN updates focus on hybrid cloud management

VMware introduces version 6.7 of vSphere and vSAN VMware premiered version 6.7 of both vSphere and vSAN with a focus on new hybrid cloud management capabilities. VMware vSphere and vSAN are the company’s flagship virtualization products. The former serves as the company’s hypervisor and virtualization management platform,...

Cisco enhances endpoint protection with visibility capabilities

Cisco announced enhancements to its Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints, new investments in email security and an expanded partnership with ConnectWise. Cisco AMP for Endpoints is a next-generation endpoint security solution made to thwart, detect and respond to advanced threats. The company says the...

Esri software comes to Alibaba Cloud under partnership

Alibaba Cloud and Esri join forces Spatial analytics company Esri and Alibaba Cloud have entered a partnership, which will allow both organizations to deliver technologies to customers who want to implement Esri technology on Alibaba Cloud. Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) was founded in 1969 and...