Oracle will announce more autonomous cloud services over the next few months, said CTO Larry Ellison. These will include autonomous “analytics, mobility, application development, and integration services.”

Riverbed rebrands itself and launches new platform; GTT expands into Canada; resin.io adds multicontainer support.

The firm plans to add container and serverless security later this year.

Several carriers including Nokia, BT, and Deutsche Telekom will trial the technologies.

The operator is working with Nokia and Intel on its vRAN 2.0 architecture.

India’s Reliance Jio is the only carrier involved in the Cisco group.

Future CSA papers will address SAP and Oracle ERP security.

The company is also expanding autonomous capabilities across its entire PaaS product line.

The CloudGuard technology takes a device- and application-centric approach.

More than two-thirds of all data centers will fully or partially adopt SDN by 2021.

Symantec, Skyhigh Networks (recently acquired by McAfee), and Netskope are leading vendors.

AT&T to release its dNOS to Linux; Cisco buys BroadSoft; Aryaka and Radware team up.

The update also gives customers a choice between two hypervisors.

N2WS built its backup tool specifically for AWS.

The partnership deploys VNFs on Juniper's branch routers.

Here are some pearls of wisdom (and surprises) said by top tech execs in 2017.

Five companies stand out for their strong hyperconverged moves.

Alibaba Cloud has 33 availability zones across 16 economic centers globally.

Dell EMC continues to lead the HCI vendor market, according to IDC.

The platform originally was part of its Terragraph wireless backhaul network.

Telstra and Ericsson complete 5G data call; SoftBank increases stake in Sprint; Edgecore Networks contributes hardware for white box packet transponder to TIP.

Three new operators — BT, Telefonica, and Vodafone — joined the TIP board of directors.

This moves Cumulus into the data center interconnect market.

CenturyLink closes on Level 3 for $34B; Microsoft Azure to triple its capacity in China; Telefonica Chile virtualizes its core network with Ericsson.