Aviatrix's CEO claimed SD-WAN is dead and that AWS killed it; VMware's CEO taunted IBM for paying too much for Red Hat; and AT&T, Sprint, and Cisco execs threw

Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney raised eyebrows earlier this month when he predicted the demise of the SD-WAN market. However, not everyone sees it that way.

Broadcom paid $10.7B for Symantec; Cisco bought Acacia Communications for $2.6B; plus 2019's biggest VC/M&A headlines.

JR Rivers left Cumulus Networks for AWS; Nutanix’s Sunil Potti joined Google; plus 2019's biggest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

While there have been many twists and turns in the 20 months since the deal was announced, the nation’s third- and fourth-largest operators are effectively no closer to being

Instana CEO Mirko Novakovic said the acquisitions advance the company's vision to "accelerate overall product vision to take APM further, faster."

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“AWS has not copied anybody’s software or services," wrote Andi Gutmans, VP for analytics and ElastiCache at AWS.

Former co-CEO Mark Hurd passed away in October. Safra Catz will take on sole leadership at Oracle.

Amid double-digital growth in 2019, Ciena CEO Gary Smith says Infinera's 600G optics lack the competitive advantages necessary to steal away market share from Ciena.

The VividCortex acquisition better positions SolaWinds against competitors including Cisco, Aruba, Datadog, Dynatrace and New Relic.

Verizon’s organizational structure and network position has changed more during the last 12 months than at any other time during its 19-year history.

"This is the opportunity for the carriers to step away from just being data pipes and actually participate in making and taking some of that value in the world

The alliance also makes Microsoft’s Azure NTT’s preferred cloud platform for modernizing its own global IT infrastructure.

IBM Cloud Identity now uses adaptive access capabilities to continually assess employee or consumer user risk levels when accessing applications and services.

“Through slush funds, bribes, gifts, and graft, Ericsson conducted telecom business with the guiding principle that ‘money talks,’” said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman.

The decades-old framework of virtualization is unfit for modern cloud infrastructure and, as such, Amazon is working to achieve near bare metal performance.

Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney says using SD-WAN to connect branch offices to the cloud misses the boat. “SD-WAN is dead. I mean, it’s over.”

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“When you actually look at the details, we’re growing at a meaningfully larger absolute dollar rate than anybody else,” AWS CEO Andy Jassy said.

“If you do a truly objective and detailed apples-to-apples comparison of the platforms, you don’t end up in the spot where that decision was made,” said AWS CEO Andy

It uses AWS’ new edge computing service called Wavelength to allow developers to deploy ultra-low latency applications to mobile devices using 5G networks.

“We’re ready to roll but I think we need to wait for the right moment,” Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete said about 5G.

The company today said it hired Raj Yavatkar as the new CTO. Like Koley, Yavatkar previously headed cloud networking at Google.