Cisco’s SON technology works in multi-vendor deployments based on any combination of cellular technologies. It supports RAN nodes from any major vendor as well as multiple data-source vendors.

“If you have an IoT device and it has any vulnerability and it’s visible from the Internet, it will be attacked in a number of minutes,” said Kevin McNamee,

New capabilities allow security teams to create custom data collectors in the appliance using threat data from any Juniper or third-party firewall. This eliminates the need for custom code

The company uses AWS SageMaker Ground Truth to create natural language understanding models for customer service conversations.

Qualcomm will use the fund to invest in startups building AI for autonomous cars, robotics, and machine learning platforms.

Kurian spent 22 years at Oracle before abruptly resigning last month. Reports quickly surfaced saying that Kurian clashed with CTO Larry Ellison over Oracle’s cloud strategy.

In a year when security startups are raising hundreds of millions in initial public offerings — including Cylance competitor Carbon Black that scored $152 million in its May IPO

The search and AI-driven analytics company also added new integration with the Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine.

The new fund follows Google’s decision not to bid for the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI contract because the work may not support its principles.

Cisco developed a four-step model for IT operations maturity showing where organizations are now and where they would like to be in two years.

Previously, the performance monitoring company had no way to take the test data it was creating and analyze it to detect anomalies and predict network issues.

Arista is predicting that 400G volumes will be relatively low in 2019. But the company cites Dell’Oro research that predicts 400G to grow dramatically beginning in 2020.

HPE is the first original equipment manufacturer to incorporate the programmable card into its devices.

Exfo is onboarding its service assurance VNFs into the Amdocs NFV software and services portfolio, which is powered by ONAP.

The performance monitoring company offers a single SaaS-based monitoring platform that monitors and manages application delivery, experience, and usage.

South Korean operator SK Telecom picked these three equipment vendors for its 5G deployment. The company plans to launch 5G in the first half of 2019.

Juniper will integrate the Mist Learning WLAN with Juniper’s Contrail SD-WAN technology.

Verizon is a CENX customer. CENX employees, including new CEO Edward Kennedy, will become part of Ericsson when the deal closes this quarter.

C3 IoT also has partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Intel to deliver its AI-driven IoT platform-as-a-service.

The vendor has sidled up next to Nokia and Ericsson as a dominant 5G equipment supplier to the largest carriers in the U.S.

The cloud giant also launched a reference architecture that companies can code into their existing marketplace to recommend new content or products.

More users need access to APM tools because of the growing complexity of architectures. Instana developed a tool to personalize APM tools for specific users.

The investment plans include producing equipment stateside to be closer to its customers, opening a new software development center, and hiring several hundred employees.

The security company that spun out of Alphabet’s secretive X research lab in January still hasn’t set a release date for its analytics platform.