“While I am not yet concerned with the declining Azure numbers as the revenue base is growing, it's something to keep our eyes on,” noted analyst Patrick Moorhead.
The Linux Foundation Public Health initiative launches with a pair of hosted projects that are currently used as exposure notification platforms targeting COVID-19.
While sales of legacy equipment are in decline, Ericsson reported a strong demand for its cloud-native and 5G portfolio, including multiple large customer wins on the 5G core.
The deal will combine SUSE’s enterprise portfolio that is focused on Linux, edge computing, and artificial intelligence with Rancher Labs’ Kubernetes management platform.
Google beat cloud rivals, won a deal with Deutsche Bank; Samsung pledged 5G vRAN by fall; and VMware purchased True Visibility to bolster analytics suite.
Samsung is also preparing to make dynamic spectrum sharing, a standalone 5G core, and network slicing commercially available before the end of the year.
Nvidia will provide virtual GPU support on SUSE's kernel-based virtual machine platform helping to accelerate artificial intelligence and data center workloads.
Dish closed its $1.4 billion purchase of Boost Mobile, gaining more than 9.3 million customers from the divestiture of Sprint’s prepaid business by T-Mobile US.
Dish's pool of vendors for its yet-to-be built cloud-native, virtualized open radio access network is starting to look strikingly similar to Rakuten Mobile.