HPE CEO talked racism, COVID-19, and edge-to-cloud strategy; Dell (again) mulled VMware’s future; and John Chambers shared pandemic advice.

Dallas, America’s ninth most populated city, is now a bonafide test bed for 5G and edge computing.

The initial markets will now serve as a testing ground for edge-native applications and workloads that require interconnection, low latency, and high throughput.

“I’ve seen the movie a number of times, and the playbook is remarkably repeatable,” he said.

Illumio Edge is managed in the cloud and uses a lightweight agent on endpoints — either an Illumio agent or customers can use an existing CrowdStrike Falcon agent.

The new VxRail systems launch as Dell Technologies once again wins the No. 1 hyperconverged infrastructure vendor title, according to IDC.

The operator’s network guru clarified that AT&T will have a nationwide 5G network running on low-band spectrum later this summer.

Snowcone is now the smallest of AWS’ Snow family of physical devices that are designed to run outside the data center.

Cisco revamped its security biz with new chief, name, and platform; Dell structured unstructured data; and HPE expanded Its 5G, edge push.

The platform is designed to allow telecom operators to maintain more control over their edge deployments and the applications running over those networks.

Open RAN and the rise of 5G presents an opportunity for Juniper to play in a market it hasn’t played in before, Juniper Networks CTO Raj Yavatkar said.

The deal includes Google opening a new cloud region in Spain and Telefónica using Google Cloud’s Mobile Edge Computing platform.

Aruba Edge Services Platform is comprised of 35 services, including a dozen new insights that were consolidated under Aruba Central.

Both bundles can use A10’s Harmony Controller for application management and integration into CI/CD workflows.

Dell and Nutanix execs shared their visions of a new normal; Equinix expanded into Canada; COVID-19's hit on the SD-WAN supply chain.

The deal in Canada follows a flurry of activity for Equinix aimed at bolstering its hyperscale strategy and expanding capabilities in edge computing.

HPE reported fiscal 2020 Q2 revenues of $6 billion, down 15% from a year ago, with a drop in revenues across all of its sectors.

The update is based on the lessons learned over the course of several large deployments, some of which have more than 10,000 systems, said co-founder Mike Baj.

Dell Technologies rolled out a bunch of updates to its year-old Dell Technologies Cloud today including a storage partnership with Google Cloud.

Beginning today, customers can purchase and pay for Cradlepoint equipment and services, including its new edge router, from AT&T.

The deal comes less than two months after Microsoft acquired virtualized evolved packet core vendor Affirmed Networks.

The new Ampere-based AI accelerator unifies training and inference workloads into a single high-performance form factor.

The research firm noted that the rate of growth of the installed base of storage capacity will be most visible in core and edge deployments.

"Our network teams both kept the current systems running smoothly and have continued to deliver on our long-term innovation strategy," AT&T's Scott Mair said.