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250M Microsoft Customer Records Exposed; Cisco Prescribes Patches

In the past three weeks, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, and Citrix have announced a slew of vulnerabilities as the companies have scrambled to lock down their product lines. Read more.

Ericsson Returns to Profit Amid Rising 5G Costs

“Today, we are a leader in 5G with 78 commercial 5G agreements with unique operators and 24 live 5G networks on four continents," CEO Börje Ekholm said. Read more.

Data Center Revenue Drives Intel to Record Q4

Intel's Data Center Group accounted for more than 50% of its Q4 revenues, said CEO Bob Swan on the company's quarterly earnings call. Read more.

Podcast: SDxCentral Weekly Wrap

Big Switch will bolster Arista’s enterprise play; IBM taps Red Hat as part of a bank IT overhaul; and Privafy goes after Palo Alto Networks, VeloCloud. Presented by: Silver Peak.