The cuts, which were first reported by Bloomberg, are tied to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The survey of finance executives found that 11% cut staff in March compared with 25% that have or are planning to cut staff in May and June.

Nutanix furloughed 25% of its workforce; IBM targeted 5G and edge deployments; and Microsoft Azure Sentinel scored a MDR win.

The bulk of these employees (1,434) work at Nutanix’s headquarters in San Jose, California. Another 11 are in San Francisco, 12 in San Mateo, and eight in Redding.

AT&T selected Stankey as its new CEO; Google to slow hiring; Cisco vowed no job cuts; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Verizon’s 5G network was live in 34 U.S. cities at the end of the quarter, and CEO Hans Vestberg said 5G deployments are still on track.

Google had originally planned to release the product later this year. But then the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increased demand for remote worker security.

Google slowed hiring and data center spend due to COVID-19; GSMA marched on with MWC; and Storage unicorn Vast Data scored $100M.

“We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for the remainder of 2020,” Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said his company has the wherewithal to survive the pandemic without laying off employees.

The operator tapped Cisco’s SD-WAN to “solve corporate challenges from workstyle reform, security measures, and labor shortage,” said NTT East SVP Naoki Shibutani.

SAP revamped org structure, exited 2 board members; Intel slashed jobs despite record quarter; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

The layoffs, which will affect between 128 and 1,100 Intel employees around the world, come after a record quarter for the chipmaker.

Mavenir’s fully virtualized 4G and 5G open RAN offering became commercially available to operators in October 2019.

“We are rebalancing some areas of our business to align to our top growth priorities,” a VMware spokesperson said.

“By going SDN these very big network operations are becoming extremely efficient to run, and that means unfortunately jobs," analyst Roger Entner said.

The company did not provide specifics on the number of jobs that will be cut, but reports indicated it could be up to 50 positions, which could be about

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

“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.

The network edge compute service ties together Microsoft’s Azure cloud and AT&T’s network edge locations.

Edge computing is a dispersion or distribution of the cloud and latency is the driving force of this evolution, said MEF CTO Pascal Menezes.

Oracle reportedly cut 10% to 15% of its Data Cloud business unit this week amid its ongoing struggle to reinvent itself as a cloud company.

The 300,000-square-foot factory will begin commercial operations early next year in Lewisville, Texas, near Ericsson’s North America headquarters in Plano.

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