Dimitris Mavrakis, senior research director at ABI Research, called the product a “major breakthrough and significant milestone in the evolution of open RAN.”
Adding MinIO object storage to the new vSAN platform gives VMware a healthy dose of the DevOps and open source appeal it needs to to win the Kubernetes wars.
A new vSphere-Tanzu combo provides enterprises with more flexibility to bring their own networking or storage compared with VMware's Cloud Foundation platform.
This mirrors Oracle’s broader strategy to win public cloud customers by touting its “second-generation” infrastructure with built-in security that costs less than competitors — notably Amazon Web Services.
The new routing chip is built on a 7-nanometer manufacturing process and is aimed at high-line rate use cases including data center interconnect, edge routing, and disaggregated routing.