The updates ensure interoperability between a 3GPP-defined management system and ETSI’s NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) system.

The partnership will reduce the time and costs associated with operationalizing VNFs, anticipate VNF technical requirements, and bring telecom operators into the innovation loop.

Despite touting the advanced nature of its factory and the fact that it will be “operational in early 2020,” Ericsson has not yet said where that factory will be

The combined entity will count about 60,000 customers and bolster its No. 3 position in the global WiFi equipment market behind Cisco and HPE.

The updates support automated container security deployments that NeuVector CTO Gary Duan described as a “policy-as-a-code concept.”

Co-founder Farah Papaioannou said that Edgeworx was the only vendor to offer “edge-aware Kubernetes,” which is “the only right way to take Kubernetes to the edge.”

Joel Smith, who works with the Kubernetes Product Security Committee, described the latest bug as “high severity."

“Kubernetes is front and center of the partnership as all of these changes are predicated by the massive developer adoption of Kubernetes,” said Cisco's Kaustubh Das.

The latest update comes on the heels of Aqua's rival Twistlock being acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $410 million.

The SD-Branch platform uses its FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, FortiNAC Network Access Control, FortiSwitch, and FortiAP Access Points.

"Vendors want to ensure they can sell SD-WAN in conjunction with other services to maximize potential revenue deal sizes," said IHS Markit's Josh Bancroft.

Despite the Versa deal, Riverbed plans to continue to offer its SteelConnect platform while leveraging its new partner for “larger scale enterprise deployments.”

The Spain-based telecom giant plans to offer the service through a virtual network function marketplace it’s developing.

The company's Crosswalk open source framework "codifies" AWS best practices into a single platform.

The enhanced performance now matches that of its hyperscaler-focused Tomahawk line, though the vendor hinted at performance update to that chip coming soon.

The nearly $16-billion deal comes just days after Google acquired data analytics firm Looker for $2.6 billion.

That victory came on the back of its applications business, which generated $8.5 billion in revenues last year compared to just $32 million generated by Amazon.

The new PoE switch and WiFi access point bolster its software-led equipment products as it battles against heavyweight Cisco.

An analyst noted that the deal will help Google Cloud better compete against Microsoft's BI Power platform.

The partnership takes advantage of Oracle’s embedded enterprise focus with the larger scale of Microsoft’s Azure platform.

The GCP integration will allow Snowflake customers to seamlessly store data in Google's public cloud while also tapping into their own analytics warehouse.

The company pushed back against published reports that it was shutting down and that the job cuts were hitting much of MapR’s executive suite.

The latest flaw allows a witty attacker to target API endpoints behind the docker cp command that would allow them to read and write data on a host machine.

The French carrier has deployed two Nokia 5G base stations to support 8K broadcasts and a mixed reality showcase.