IBM and Salesforce name each other preferred vendor
IBM and Salesforce announced they are building on their partnership by combining IBM Cloud and Watson services with Salesforce Quip and Salesforce Service Cloud Einstein.
As part of the collaboration, IBM will build IBM Watson Quip Live Apps,...
Kaminario and Tech Data announce partnership
Storage software company Kaminario is transitioning from a hardware to software-centric business model as the company partners with Tech Data.
Under the agreement, Kaminario will focus on IP and software, while Tech Data provides supply chain, integration and product support...
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...
Nokia lands deal with Telia
Telia Company is adopting Nokia's cloud native packet core solution across the Nordics and Baltics, covering Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania. The move is part of a wider initiative by Telia to improve mobile broadband and manage mobile...
NXP and China Mobile finish virtualization networking trial
NXP Semiconductors announced it finished a virtualization networking trial with China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) with its virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) solution. The solution completed laboratory and field testing in Beijing and Shanghai. NXP reports the...
Blockchain use cases for telcos
Blockchain is poised to disrupt the telecom industry. The technology provides users with a distributed, decentralized way to conduct online transactions with an assembly of records called blocks, which are strung together using the mathematical language of cryptography. While still...
Google announces five new cloud computing regions and three submarine cables
Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its global infrastructure with the addition of three new submarine fiber-optic cables and five new cloud computing regions to be launched later this year.
The five new areas Google...
AT&T finishes Gbps XGS-PON field trials
AT&T announced Tuesday it finished open-source 10 Gbps XGS-PON field trials as part of a wider initiative to virtualize access functions over the last mile network.
The operator originally announced it would conduct 10 Gbps XGS-PON field trials last June....
Verizon becomes ONAP platinum member
Verizon announced it has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project as a platinum member, underscoring the service providers efforts to propel network virtualization and automation.
ONAP is an open source community consisting of global carriers and vendors focused on...
Microsoft outcompetes AWS in fourth quarter of 2017
While Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have both been deemed leaders in infrastructure-as-a-services (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) segments, the former is gaining a competitive edge over the latter, according to research from KeyBanc analysts cited by...
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....
Cradlepoint announces new subscription-based solution pricing model
Moving forward with its Elastic Edge strategy, Cradlepoint announced a new subscription-based solution pricing model for software and cloud-based wireless wide-area networks (WANs). Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Solution Packages serve as a basis for the new model.
Cradlepoint offers an Elastic...
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,...
Huawei and Telefónica finish T-SDN tests
Spain-based telecom provider Telefónica and Chinese smartphone maker Huawei announced they have successfully finished laboratory tests on the T-SDN (Transport Software-Defined Network) solution. The aim of the test was to demonstrate that the controller can incorporate improvements for the...
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...
Baidu COO talks why China is well positioned to advance A.I. systems
Las Vegas, Nev. -- During a press conference at CES, Baidu COO Qi Lu emphasized how China is poised to dominate the global artificial intelligence (A.I.) market. According to Lu, China is well positioned to...
CES panel talks about the role of 5G in A.I., automated cars and more
Las Vegas, Nev. -- A panelist of tech leaders gathered on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Wednesday for a discussion moderated by Editor-in-Chief of SDxCentral Sue Marek about what...
Ford to launch vehicle-as-a-service platform in 2018
Las Vegas, Nev. -- Ford CEO Jim Hackett highlighted opportunities within the transportation sector the company would like to seize upon during a keynote presentation Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). While Ford’s address was short on...
Saguna launches MEC Starter Kit
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) company Saguna launched what it claims to be the world’s first MEC Starter Kit.
MEC is a network architecture that allows IT and cloud-computing capabilities to be performed at the edge of the cellular network. The purpose...
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,...
Google announces Preemptible GPUs
Google has launched preemtible GPUs, a programmable logic chip made for display functions, which enable users to use virtual machines with GPUs at a 50% discount. Although, it should be noted the company can shut down the use of the service...
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...
