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The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab will encourage MIT faculty and students to launch companies that will focus on commercializing artificial intelligence inventions and technologies IBM and MIT today announced that …

Los Angeles, Calif. — Jono Bacon, founder of Jono Bacon Consulting, delivered a keynote presentation titled “The Impact of the Ecosystem” at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America …

Los Angeles, Calif. — Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, had a conversation with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux kernel and Git, at the Open Source Summit North …

Los Angeles, Calif. — Alan Clark, director of industry initiatives, emerging standards and open source at SUSE, and chairman of the OpenStack Foundation’s board of directors, delivered a keynote presentation …

ABI Research says open source communities and individual telcos are fueling development in Asia-Pacific NFV market As telecom service providers in Asia-Pacific continue to virtualize their network architecture, a new …

ETSI interoperability plugtests help technical committees develop global standards for NFV platforms The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is set to host the second Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Plugtests event from …

VMware joins forces with Frame to deliver Windows apps to Workspace One users VMware recently announced a partnership with Frame that will enable Workspace One users to stream Windows apps …

Huawei and Microsoft join forces to expand cloud app portfolio Microsoft and Huawei have signed a memorandum of understanding, which will bring the former’s applications to the latter’s public cloud. …

Zello walkie-talkie app provided connection for Hurricane Harvey volunteer rescue efforts For the civilian volunteers who braved the flood waters of Hurricane Harvey, the walkie-talkie application Zello provided a lifeline …

HPE and Micro Focus merge to create world’s seventh largest software vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced it completed a $8.8 billion spin-off and merger with U.K. software businesses Micro …

Openstack’s newest platform focuses on usability, flexibility and scalability The Openstack Foundation unveiled the 16th version of its software platform called Pike yesterday. Although Pike isn’t exactly loaded with new …

Mosaic Alliance brings vendors together to improve NFV and SDN solutions In an effort to speed up the implementation of its software-defined access (SD-access) networks, Adtran Inc., a global provider …

Abbott Labs recall impacts six different pacemaker models The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a recall of nearly half a million pacemakers out of concern that IoT security …

The two industry giants addressed questions centered on customer service, containers, VMware AppDefense and A.I. CEO of VMware Pat Gelsinger and CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell took questions this …

Cisco looks to bring ACI to three major cloud vendors with initial field tests Cisco recently announced it will commence early field trials for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual …

New Pivotal Container Service promises to simplify container creation and management Pivotal Software, Inc., VMware Inc. and Google announced at the VMWorld 2017 conference this week they are collaborating on …

VeloCloud’s SD-WAN security ecosystem continues to grow with four new partners VeloCloud’s SD-WAN Security Technology Partner Program is picking up steam with the addition of four new partners: Palo Alto Networks, …

The threat of cyber attacks Securing any sort of technology is an arduous undertaking, especially in a world of cyber threats. SAP reports more than 80% of all cyberattacks are …

The two firms are testing their respective IoT products to offer a single-point IoT solution VMware has signed an agreement with ADLINK Technology to provide mutual customers with a pre-integrated …

Cisco’s ACI to move beyond data centers to customers managing hybrid networks Cisco recently announced it is devising a way to bring its software-defined networking (SDN) solution, Application Centric Infrastructure …

A container renaissance? Data centers have a new found interest in containers these days. The technology provides an alternative way to host multiple processes on an individual console without using …

Versa Networks seeks to simplify branch management Versa Networks, a vendor in the SD-WAN and SD-security market, announced its new Software Defined Secure Branch (SD-Branch) managed service is now available …

Nokia-led 5G-MoNArch focused on 5G for vertical markets including automotive, healthcare and media Network slicing, seen as a key 5G enabler, partitions a single physical layer into multiple virtual networks. …

Overview Docker is one of the hottest products on the devops scene today. The open source platform deploys and updates applications inside containers on a single Linux operating system (OS). …

Red Hat patches vulnerability in OpenStack subsystem that manages virtual machines Red Hat recently patched a security glitch in an OpenStack subsystem used to provision network services to virtual machines …