The Meraki SD-WAN is being positioned as an entry-level managed SD-WAN offering, with VMware's VeloCloud being positioned as a more "premium" offering.
Big Blue tapped Arvind Krishna, who led its Red Hat acquisition, to replace long-tenured CEO Ginni Rommety, and promoted Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to president.
Open cloud data warehouses are still data warehouses, and savvy enterprises are moving directly to architectures built around cloud data lakes, said Tomer Shiran.