The joint venture Working Group Two, which was formed in 2017 to innovate on 5G, open vRAN, security, IoT, and enterprise use cases, also gained a new round of

Network slicing is a key feature of 5G, and it’s expected to allow operators to assemble private or app-specific networks on the fly.

HPE CEO talked racism, COVID-19, and edge-to-cloud strategy; Dell (again) mulled VMware’s future; and John Chambers shared pandemic advice.

GCP also announced it had pushed 15,000 nodes per cluster in its Kubernetes Engine platform.

Dallas, America’s ninth most populated city, is now a bonafide test bed for 5G and edge computing.

The initial markets will now serve as a testing ground for edge-native applications and workloads that require interconnection, low latency, and high throughput.

HPE challenged VMware, IBM Red Hat with Ezmeral; Nokia readied an aggressive Open RAN portfolio; and Arm elbowed Intel, AMD for new ground.

Antonio Neri delivered the HPE Discover opening keynote from his living room after the pandemic forced the event to go digital and after Neri tested positive for COVID-19.

Arm chips are increasingly finding their way into x86 strongholds long-held by Intel and AMD, including the cloud, 5G base stations, and even supercomputers.

Illumio Edge is managed in the cloud and uses a lightweight agent on endpoints — either an Illumio agent or customers can use an existing CrowdStrike Falcon agent.

The gamble could also help the Finnish vendor regain momentum following early challenges with its 5G portfolio.

“Tanzu and OpenShift are the two swim lanes, and Ezmeral will be a third swim lane with very unique opportunities,” HPE CTO Kumar Sreekanti said.

Alongside its all-new Ampere-based supercomputing cluster, Nvidia also announced PCIe-based A100 GPUs, server partners, and a unified fabric manager to preempt outages.

The carrier said the move will allow that business to be more agile in responding to the rapidly evolving market.

The cuts will impact 1,233 jobs at Nokia's Alcatel-Lucent operations in France.

This is Microsoft’s second IoT-related acquisition this year. The company pledged to invest $5 billion in IoT by 2022.

Cisco’s Chief Strategy Officer Anuj Kapur hinted at future merger and acquisition targets to satisfy the tech giant’s seemingly endless appetite for smaller companies.

AT&T clarified its nationwide 5G timeline; Microsoft bought ADRM; and Verizon teased of its forthcoming DSS launch for Nationwide 5G.

Infinera says it has achieved 800 Gb/s line rates over a 730-kilometer from San Diego to Phoenix on Windstream's network.

Verizon’s market position on 5G is heavily dependent on its ability to use dynamic spectrum sharing, and testing of that software is underway.

Verizon tapped Cisco for a NFV services push; HPE's Neri contracted COVID-19; and Cisco updated its IBN portfolio for full stack automation.

AI continues to be a core component of Intel's portfolio. The third-generation Xeon Scalable chips add bfloat16 support, and Intel debuted an AI-first FPGA.

The operator’s network guru clarified that AT&T will have a nationwide 5G network running on low-band spectrum later this summer.

"We have to realize that the metric by which IT will be measured is probably going to shift toward agility and the ability to react seamlessly," Cisco's Todd Nightingale