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Huawei sealed a 5G strategic partnership agreement with China Unicom. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the partnership, Huawei and China Unicom will fully leverage their respective innovative strengths in 5G and focus on cooperation in E2E 5G technical verification, cooperation with vertical industry partners, building of the 5G ecosystem, and 5G service […]
Google has become a Platinum member of The Linux Foundation, and captured a board seat at the foundation in the process. Sarah Novotny, the head of open source strategy for Google Cloud Platform, will join The Linux Foundation Board of Directors as Google’s representative. “Google is one of the biggest contributors to and supporters of […]
Microsoft announced commercial availability of Azure IoT Hub automatic device management. Automatic device management automates many of the repetitive and complex tasks of managing large device fleets over the entirety of their lifecycles. Microsoft said the release provides the ability to perform IoT device configuration at scale including updating settings, installing software, and updating firmware […]
Google Cloud Platform announced two hardware appliances for helping users transfer large quantities of data into their service. The appliances slide into a 19″ rack and can be used for migrating data center stores to the Google Cloud. The service comes in two configurations: 100TB or 480TB of raw storage capacity. The 100TB model is […]
A10 Networks discusses its SSL Insight technology for decrypting traffic. Rather than decrypting traffic at every single hop, enterprises can now decrypt once and send to multiple devices. Presented by Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, and Parth Jagirdar, Product Marketing Manager, at A10 Networks. https://youtu.be/DFDfOmTXths
Puppet, which develops software automation tools, announced $42 million in funding led by Cisco Investments along with EDBI, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, and VMware. In the last year, Puppet opened five new offices in Seattle, Singapore, Sydney, Timisoara and Tokyo to meet the increasing demand for DevOps and automation throughout the world. The most significant […]
CloudBees, which offers a DevOps suite for enterprises, closed $62 million in growth funding comprised of $37 million of equity led by Delta-v Capital and $25 million of growth financing from Golub Capital’s Late Stage Lending business. CloudBees Suite builds on emerging DevOps practices and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) automation adding a […]
Qualcomm is working with Gizwits, a global leader in Internet of Things (IoT) development platforms, to deliver the world’s first commercial 2G cellular modules with field upgrades to LTE IoT (eMTC/Cat-M1 and NB-IoT/Cat-NB1). The Quectel BG36 module –aimed to be compatible with China Mobile’s network and manufactured by Quectel based on the Qualcomm MDM9206 LTE […]
Gigalight introduced a new, lower cost 40G QSFP+ LR4 10km optical transceiver. The company said it has optimized the cost this new generation 40G transceiver by applying its mature 100G optical engine technology to the development of the 40G optical module. Previously, Gigalight has been producing the 40G QSFP+ LR4 optical modules through external sourcing […]
A10 Networks appointed Anthony Webb as VP of sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Before joining A10, Webb served as vice president EMEA of Ixia Technologies. Prior to joining Ixia, he held positions at the vice president and managing director level for Juniper Networks, running sales organizations across EMEA and in the […]
Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), in collaboration with MEF, successfully concluded its 2018 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) multi-vendor interoperability demonstration. The multi-vendor demo led by four network operator labs included lab deployed and cloud deployed systems testing new dynamic behavior use cases and deployment scenarios. The demo also incorporated service provisioning scenarios […]
Google Cloud Platform is ready to launch a new Los Angeles cloud region next month, joining its current regions or Oregon, Iowa, South Carolina and northern Virginia. The new Los Angeles cloud region will target the aerospace, music, media and entertainment industries of southern California. “Los Angeles is a global hub for fashion, music, entertainment, […]
SSE Enterprise Telecoms, which operates a 13,700km private telecoms network and an estate of 15 data centres across the UK, has selected Infinera’s XTM Series to deliver a resilient, ‘dark fibre-like’ network across the UK. Specifically, SSE Enterprise Telecoms’ network will provide fibre connectivity from BT exchanges to more than 80 commercial data centres. The […]
