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The partnership is focused on ensuring that SD-WAN vendors are developing products that meet the needs of both enterprises and the service providers that serve them.

Mavenir broadened its push into open and virtualized radio access network development with the opening of a new innovation center in Stockholm.

Karen Walker joined Intel as SVP and CMO; Equinix welcomed Justin Dustzadeh as CTO; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Its new analytics tool aims to bridge McAfee’s legacy endpoint security business with its newer cloud portfolio.

Cisco Viptela will power cable network provider Altice USA's entrance into the managed SD-WAN service provider market.

It recently closed its Aerohive acquisition, and CEO Ed Meyercord say the deal solidifies Extreme’s position as the No. 3 player in the enterprise networking market.

As enterprises increase their usage of serverless functions, companies must understand serverless security threats and how to mitigate them.

Rivers left Cumulus three months ago and started “looking for [his] next challenge,” which looks to be data center networking at the cloud giant.

5G will deliver the greatest impact for enterprises, but the technology that will drive that won’t be available at scale until next year and beyond.

Ericsson expects to pay $1.23 billion to cover a potential settlement and related costs to resolve ethics breaches spanning six countries.

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.

In a win for CloudGenix, Hypercore Networks today announced a partnership with the SD-WAN vendor to deliver its cloud-based autonomous WAN to its customers.

With the addition of its cloud offerings, Yellowbrick offers enterprise customers a platform to run workloads on-premises, in the cloud, or both.

Qualcomm showcased its long history of innovation in wireless technology and contends that it’s leading the industry today amid 5G deployment momentum.

The Swedish vendor is also updating factories in an effort to more quickly serve customers in specific regions.

Bigleaf Networks secured $21 million in Series B funding. It plans to use this capital to build out its SD-WAN platform.

The company's founder and CTO explained that it was unable to adequately monetize its operations in light of Kubernetes’ rise.

The partnership aims to simplify data management on cloud-scale architectures through policy-based automation, linear scalability, and cloud mobility.

Operators and developers need to work together to bring edge uses to market and capitalize on the $4.1 trillion opportunity it represents.

The startup says “five of the top five” cloud and colocation service providers are testing its Luxon software-defined interconnect platform.

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

Huawei plans to invest $1.5 billion in developer tools and teased a bevy of AI cloud services and processors amid a push to open source more of its technology.

VMware's vCloud Availability will power Deutsche Telekom's Dynamic Services for Infrastructure platform's new disaster recovery service.