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.
The updates include application and infrastructure additions designed to ease operations in a Kubernetes environment and further integrate VMware’s Kubernetes properties.
The vendor said the update assumes the demand environment continues to deteriorate through Q2 before slowly rebounding "as economies reopen and population lockdowns end.”
The operators will share base stations used to transmit 5G signals in rural areas and collaborate on the construction design and management of those base stations.
The reported 775% increase in cloud usage in areas operating under enforced social distancing or shelter-in-place orders was not as specific as it should have been.