It's across designing products, building products, and optimizing operations that the industrial metaverse will have the most impact, said Microsoft EVP and COO Judson Althoff, at Ignite.

Enterprises will now be able to automatically move calls to a stronger 5G network in cases of signal loss.

It's a full week of events with SDxCentral's Security in the Cloud-First Era, Google Cloud's Next, and Microsoft Ignite.

CEO Satya Nadella introduced Azure Elastic storage area network service as "the industry's first" cloud-native and fully managed SAN offering.

"There's just not a lot of transparency," Microsoft Senior Director of Sustainability Rosie Mastrandrea said.

Google Cloud’s Next event covered a lot of ground, including the company's vision after its Mandiant acquisition and new partnerships.

"Google Cloud is accelerating the transformation of global leaders in every industry," CEO Thomas Kurian said.

The cloud provider extended its partnerships with Elastic and MongoDB to support data transferability.

Graphiant guns for Cisco's market; T-Mobile US sells its Sprint wireline holdings for $1; and Google Cloud acquires Mandiant for $5.4 billion.

AWS supports Asian fintech and health care; the White House limits China's chip access; and Google gives cloud credits to startups and NGOs.

This will delay Chinese military programs that use supercomputing to model nuclear explosions and build networks that surveil dissidents and minorities.

Since launching in 2019, AWS added 15 new regions and is now working to follow through with its 33-zone expansion plan.

The move will transfer Red Hat Ceph Storage, OpenShift Data Foundation, Rook, and NooBaa into IBM storage.

“Zero trust is hard, and it's not something that any one vendor is going to be able to necessarily push the industry to completion with," John Roese said.

The new capability enables features like patch and update readiness, URL category filtering, antivirus and malware scanning, and user identification and control.

T-Mobile US lines up more job cuts; VMware talks diversity, equity, and inclusion; and Verizon Business shakes up its executive structure.

The partnership will see TELMEX-Triara become the host partner for the second planned Oracle Cloud Region in Mexico.

Isn't there an old proverb that says if you can't find the answer, get some smarter people together to figure it out?

The carrier also plans to deploy 30,000 Symware edge appliances across 23,000 of its cell site locations in Japan over the next 10 months.

Orange hopes to manage its network “more systematically” with the new partnership, bringing together cloud-based security and the network.

Nokia claims to be on track to match 60% of its power consumption with renewable energy generation this year.

Telefónica and Qualcomm collaborate on XR; Alibaba invests $1 billion for cloud customers; and GTT partners with Caliber Financial Services.

Tribally-owned Caliber Financial Services has chosen GTT to aid in the self-funded infrastructure project to bring internet to the reservation.

Omdia sees the software infrastructure market at $296B by 2026; Charter appoints a new CEO; and Ofcom investigates AWS, Google, Microsoft.