It’s the largest swath of spectrum allocated for WiFi since 1989, and it comes as WiFi 6 begins to proliferate in routers and silicon

AT&T selected Stankey as new CEO; Verizon claimed its 5G is COVID-19 proof; and Intel posted strong Q1 earnings, warned of Q2 headwinds.

Despite pandemic related challenges, Intel reported revenues of $19.8 billion for the quarter, up 23% year over year, exceeding expectations by more than $800 million.

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.

The move comes on the heels of AT&T’s most recent quarterly earnings release that was dominated by uncertainty tied to the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak.

The latest release includes what Canonical calls “kernel self-protection measures,” which target control flow integrity and includes stack-crash protection.

Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany embraced 5G DSS; Edgewise Networks CEO shared security-related consequences of COVID-19; and AT&T topped managed SD-WAN ranking.

Edgewise Networks CEO Peter Smith discusses the rapid shift to remote work because of COVID-19 and how zero-trust security can help.

Ericsson closed Q1 with 86 commercial 5G contracts and 29 live 5G networks. It activated an additional two 5G networks this month.

“AT&T’s been through a lot of other crises before and each time you’ve seen us emerge in a stronger position and I’m confident we’ll do it again with this

The goal is to provide service providers using ONAP with more flexibility in creating intent-based policies while supporting automation use cases.

Anthos customers can now run Google-managed workloads inside of AWS. Azure support remains a work in progress.

IBM Cloud Data Shield is based on Fortanix’s technology that encrypts data at rest, in transit, and while in use, thus allowing general-purpose computation on encrypted data.

Cognitive WiFi provides visibility into WiFi users’ experience and initiates root cause analysis to make recommendations for resolution.

Juniper claims its technology will provide customers with a cost-effective alternative to MPLS, with greater visibility and reliability across the network.

Cisco, Google drove SD-WAN to the cloud; Commvault sued competitors Cohesity and Rubrik; and IBM reported a hard hit from pandemic in earnings report.

Long-time executive and short-time co-CEO Jennifer Morgan is set to leave the company on April 30. SAP tied the move to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told financial analysts that “in the last few weeks we faced a shift in client priorities toward the preservation of capital.”

The Payment Flexibility Program offers customers 0% interest financing with no down payment and up to 180-day deferrals on payments.

“The unauthorized use of our patented technology by Rubrik and Cohesity forces us to compete against our own inventions," said Commvault's Marcus Muller.

The Chinese juggernaut reported a 1.4% year-over-year increase in revenue during Q1 totaling almost $25.8 billion.

Customers “get no visibility from the public cloud because they treat it as a black box,” CEO Steve Mullaney said.

The companies aim to apply consistent service level agreements, security policies, and compliance data to applications and enterprise networks.

Google brought BeyondCorp zero-trust security to the masses; Alibaba injected $28B into the cloud; and Rackspace readied its $10B IPO.