The new facility plays into the data center provider’s plan to pull hyperscale cloud deals away from competitors including Equinix.

The software-defined platform runs on top of Cohesity, Cisco, HPE, or Dell EMC hyperconverged secondary storage appliances.

The jointly-developed software integrates SAP’s Data Hub and Cisco’s Container Platform.

The updates essentially allow enterprises to store data once, then copy it to an all-flash on-premises array, and send it to a public cloud for archiving or disaster recovery.

Both are “service experiments” in that the military wants to trial private companies — as opposed to Air Force service members — to provide IT and networking services.

Sprint's Aaron Hinkle also weighed in on SDN: “When you move to the edge you have to be able to do a full SDN deployment.”

While the Open19 Project started as a way for LinkedIn to optimize its data centers, its founders quickly realized that the platform was well suited for edge deployments.

VirusTotal also has new capabilities to help companies’ threat intelligence teams better analyze massive amounts of data.

VMware ranked No. 2 in the HCI software vendor list while Dell remained the market leader for branded hyperconverged products.

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

The competitive landscape for managed, on-premises Kubernetes services is becoming increasingly crowded with the likes of Cisco and even Google itself jumping in.

Digital Realty already has data centers in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. This expands its data center footprint to Latin American — a region primed for growth.

Dell plans to interview several banks this week to discuss underwriting an IPO, according to media reports.

“If you’ve got mining happening on your network, you probably have other bad stuff happening on your network, and it’s probably much worse than mining,” said CTA’s Neil Jenkins.

The hybrid cloud partnership will target original equipment manufacturers and channel partners that will build and sell private cloud products running Alibaba Cloud’s Apsara Stack.

The product uses a Kubernetes orchestration framework. It supports on-premises storage devices and cloud storage from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Digital Ocean, Wasabi, and Scality’s software-defined storage platform Ring.

McAfee says Presidents Trump and Obama have malware campaigns named after them. Tenable discloses a flaw that could affect hundreds of thousands of security cameras globally.

Intel may be best known for its x86 server chips, but its growing silicon portfolio targets cloud and edge applications, as well as 5G.

SDN and NFV are contributing to the growth of interconnection because these technologies make it easier for customers to consume more bandwidth.

When asked about Kurian, who heads the company’s cloud business, Co-CEO Mark Hurd said “we expect him back.” But Hurd refused to say when that will happen.

The hyperconverged infrastructure system is designed for edge deployments. It includes automated virtualization, compute, storage, and power management resources, along with built-in redundancy.

The company claims its cloud storage costs less than one-fifth the price of Amazon S3 and is more than six times as fast.

Datrium says its software simplifies hybrid cloud compared to traditional storage systems and hyperconverged infrastructure.

The new Lenovo-branded products will combine NetApp’s all-flash data management and storage software with Lenovo’s servers.