While the Open19 Project started as a way for LinkedIn to optimize its data centers, its founders quickly realized that the platform was well suited for edge deployments.

Patel oversaw CenturyLink’s integration with Level 3 Communications and has experience with many large acquisitions.

Digital Realty already has data centers in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. This expands its data center footprint to Latin American — a region primed for growth.

The initiative supports the movement of transactional, operational, customer, or IoT data between the data lake and a customer’s operations.

Kong CEO and co-founder Augusto Marietti has touted the company’s platform as an “air traffic control to manage, broker, and hold APIs.”

SD-WAN 2.0 takes into account the new requirements of IT and new enterprise communication patterns to spread SD-WAN across multiple locations and clouds, says Nuage CEO Sunil Khandekar.

McAfee says Presidents Trump and Obama have malware campaigns named after them. Tenable discloses a flaw that could affect hundreds of thousands of security cameras globally.

“Because the developers love Stackpoint.io so much, after our testing I bought the company. It’s just that good,” said NetApp's Anthony Lye.

The job cuts will impact employees of the former Motorola Solutions infrastructure business that Nokia purchased in 2011.

Both vendors have scored significant 5G deals with all of the major U.S. operators but are not afraid to throw shade at each other.

Virtualization is the key to making new 5G use cases a reality, according to top tech chiefs at U.S. wireless operators.

Barefoot says its Tofino chip is used for more than just “niche” applications, and the P4 programming language gives it gravitas.

The data center giant will pursue business opportunities in NFV, IoT, and 5G services, according to the new CEO.

VMware’s Rajiv Ramaswami says the virtualization company wants to bring more cloud-native services into customers’ on-premises data centers.

Sprint CTO John Saw said the carrier’s rivals were “trying to make 5G lemonade out of the lemons that they have.” He was referring to Verizon and AT&T using

Now that it is publicly traded the company intends to continue focusing on acquisitions like its recent purchase of SD-WAN provider Elfiq Networks.

Sysdig CEO Suresh Vasudevan declined to comment on the company’s plans for an initial public offering.

Meyers succeeds Peter Van Camp, who was named interim CEO in January when former CEO Steven Smith resigned suddenly after “exercising poor judgment with respect to an employee matter.”

Jack Ma is retiring to focus on philanthropic efforts in education. Current CEO Daniel Zhang will take over Ma’s role as chairman of the board.

Kurian, who reports directly to CTO Larry Ellison, didn’t say when he’ll return or why he’s taking time off.

CEO Hock Tan said the company will sell hardware to new customers and will see a boost from 5G.

The serverless security library targets the runtime environment but is not a replacement for an enterprise-grade platform deployment.

Aryaka names new CEO (again); Former AlienVault CEO will now head AT&T cybersecurity; and Kontron absorbs Inocybe leadership in acquisition.

LTE growth coupled with the early stages of 5G deployments fueled the evolved packet core market in the second quarter of the year.