The platform, now available to all customers, allows users to run their IBM Cloud service on-premises or in edge locations managed through a single pane of glass in the

Andy Jassy's promotion highlights the critical nature of and growing opportunity that is Amazon Web Services.

NEC acted as the system integrator for the trial, which also included Altiostar, GigaTera Communications, and Supermicro.

The quartet of operators, which includes Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone, did not commit to any new timelines for broad open RAN deployments.

Its greater flexibility is also behind Microsoft’s move toward recommending CAPZ over its legacy AKS Engine product.

Mirantis and Platform9 released their own versions of fully-managed, bare metal orchestration platforms to provide "the best of both worlds."

Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $65 billion in Q3, up 28% from a year ago, according to SRG.

Dish tapped Mavenir for 5G messaging, chatbots; Google scored ABB win; and Finther Tecnologica joined forces with 128 Technology.

This customer win comes about a month after Nokia said it will move its on-premises IT infrastructure to Google Cloud.

The ride combines the vendor’s Cloud Satellite platform with AT&T’s 5G and edge work, with a focus on the carrier’s multi-access edge computing efforts.

The vendor also unveiled a more flexible NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription service and a new NetApp SolidFire Enterprise SDS service.

“The surprise is really that it took Nokia so long to do this," analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

“We have been talking about the death of [infrastructure-as-a-service] for years now, and the reality is that it’s not going away anytime soon,” DigitalOcean's Apurva Joshi said.

“TIP is about the process of changing the system — systemic change," TIP Executive Director Attilio Zani said.

“The low-hanging fruit has been picked,” said VMware's Victor Firoiu. “We need a second evolution in the sustainability of computation.”

“Cloud is an operating model,” said Deepak Patil, SVP for cloud platforms and solutions at Dell Technologies. “It’s not a destination.”

The improvements seek to address challenges faced by customers using Microsoft’s Office 365 platform.

“In case anyone was still in doubt, cloud is increasingly dominating the IT landscape,” Synergy’s John Dinsdale said.

Nvidia took Arm off Softbanks' hands in $40 billion deal; Oracle shared it's KISS cloud strategy; and Dish tapped Nokia for 5G SA core.

Outside of the top three, Gartner placed Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, IBM, and Tencent Cloud in that order within the “niche players” box.

Nokia’s new CEO confronted complacency; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes from August.

The nexus of cloud, edge, 5G, and analytics is driving the move to digital and helping CIOs understand the opportunity, Gartner analyst Sid Nag said.

The new piece of the strategy is Ezmeral, a Kubernetes-based platform that allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications across any infrastructure.

Longhorn complements Kubernetes and provides a storage overlay that virtualizes and enhances underlying storage infrastructure, said Rancher Labs CEO.