An Omdia report commissioned by OCP found that equipment revenue among non-board member companies grew 40% in 2019, hitting $3.6 billion.

Beginning today, customers can purchase and pay for Cradlepoint equipment and services, including its new edge router, from AT&T.

Oracle challenged AWS to a cloud calculator duel; Rakuten delayed its 5G timeline; and enterprise job-cut plans are accelerating, said Gartner.

The latest funding comes on the heels of a precarious $320 million debt financing that the cloud provider claimed would set it on a course toward profitability.

"In general, we are not seeing any side effects of the epidemic" and no impact on 5G construction, Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin told SDxCentral last month.

The new feature lets application teams build software-defined perimeters around individual application instances.

Oracle claims the cloud cost calculator offers an “apples-to-apples” comparison between its own cloud infrastructure and that of AWS.

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.

The deal comes less than two months after Microsoft acquired virtualized evolved packet core vendor Affirmed Networks.

“I think it’s up to us as leaders and as teams to not accept the world the way it’s been, but to actually change the world," AWS CEO Andy

The new Google Cloud VMware Engine comes almost a year after the two companies first announced a hybrid cloud partnership.

Microsoft Azure gained similar capabilities last year.

The ongoing pandemic has only served to exacerbate the situation and reveal these challenges, said Fortinet CMO John Maddison.

“Customers in times like these want to go with people they trust and know, and I think that will work in our favor,” CEO Chuck Robbins said on Cisco’s

VMware bought security startup Octarine; Rakuten Mobile's ambitious 5G plan bled red; and Microsoft moved Project Cerberus to OCP.

The research firm noted that the rate of growth of the installed base of storage capacity will be most visible in core and edge deployments.

Despite growing financial losses tied to its deployment plans Rakuten Mobile still found money to purchase its OSS vendor Innoeye.

It also formed a coalition with leading SIEM and SOAR providers Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic.

The move is part of an effort to drive OCP members to think beyond the narrow, albeit lucrative hyperscale market and focus on adoptability.

AT&T warned of 5G Impact from COVID-19; Trump rallied US chip firms to end reliance on Asia; and Nutanix HCI automated disaster recovery.

Dell and Apstra targeted enterprise SONiC adoption with networking hardware, software, and enterprise-grade technical support.

AT&T is “still cautious about the visibility and limited in the visibility going forward” as it relates to COVID-19, CFO John Stephens said.

“Legacy backup and recovery solutions suck – they’re complex, slow, expensive, and offer no path to cloud,” said Rubrik President Dan Rogers.

It now supports multi-site disaster recovery designs, which use automation to help enterprises more quickly recover from the simultaneous failure of two or more data centers.