The OpenStack Foundation launched its latest Victoria OpenStack release, which includes greater Kubernetes integration.

“The stakes of this are high, and 5G will determine whether the next Google, Apple, Amazon, and Uber of the world is created here in the U.S. or abroad,"

The deployment, which debuted in Atlanta and Pittsburgh, will eventually reach nationwide scale but not until Vapor IO completes its colocation installations around the country.

Ericsson grabbed Cradlepoint to boost its enterprise 5G WAN, Ciena CTO talked programable optics for 5G and edge; and AT&T caught the carbon neutral bug.

“We build 5G right. We want it to be transformative. We don’t want it to be inferior to a 4G network," Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

Verizon boosted 5G security; VMware, NSF offered up a $6M sustainable IT prize; and Huawei’s global footprint shrank.

The new agreement will see Videotron add Aruba’s SD-branch platform and its 9000 Series Gateways to support the operator’s high-speed internet service.

Verizon and Amazon bridge to the edge; McAfee forecasts deep fakes and zombies, and T-Mobile made some big claims.

Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength is live; Cisco Duo wants to kill passwords; and VMware says destructive cyberattacks are growing.

CEO Jayshree Ullal explained that supply chain constraints tied to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic dragged on revenues during the quarter.

The vendor's Flexible Service Edge allows service providers to roll out new functionality as needed to meet customer demand.

The new chips introduce edge compute functionality allowing for things like traffic flows, telemetry data, and security functions to be executed in place.

CloudEOS Edge integrates with AWS Transit Gateway, which automates provisioning and multi-cloud routing, as well as Arista’s CloudVision management software.

These moves play into the No. 3 cloud provider’s quest to oust Microsoft Azure from the No. 2 seat.

The deals come as Gartner predicts worldwide 5G spending will almost double this year to $8.1 billion.

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CEO Hans Vestberg explained that larger enterprises were seeing this as a “time to digitize” their operations including further adoption of “SD-WAN, video conferencing, and mobile edge computing.”

Prospects in the IoT market, while growing, remain dubious and the COVID-19 crisis has extended its delayed insurgence.

Google's mobile edge cloud allows operators to build virtualized network functions and cloud-native functions for the core, evolved packet core, and radio access network.

"The problem of files is a problem of scale,” said Nasuni CTO Andres Rodriguez.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; Verizon grabbed Google Cloud for its multi-cloud strategy; and Rackspace filed for an IPO.

Silver Peak customers can now enhance their SD-WAN visibility using Kentik's network intelligence platform.

Reopening branch offices and expanding a remote or digital workforce creates this “new edge” that requires connectivity, automation, and built-in security, Cisco’s Pat Vitalone 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.