Nutanix furloughed 25% of its workforce; IBM targeted 5G and edge deployments; and Microsoft Azure Sentinel scored a MDR win.

China Mobile donated XGVela, which has also gained support or interest from China Unicom, China Telecom, ZTE, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, and Red Hat.

The cloud and computing giant did admit to a slowdown in business as the quarter came to an end, which resulted in a mixed outlook for the rest of

Snowball Edge Storage devices now feature 40 virtual CPUs compared to 24 in the previous version and 80 gigabytes of memory.

Capex spending on 5G network deployments will decline 10% globally this year, but those activities will pick up next year, according to ABI Research.

Cisco and VMware have been battling for SD-WAN superiority ever since the two vendors paid hundreds of millions of dollars for Viptela and VeloCloud.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the letter was what wasn’t said. There was not one mention of COVID-19, the coronavirus, or even persevering through difficult times.

A pool of operators, including AT&T, SK Telecom, Telefónica, and Vodafone have partnered on the effort and plan to make Azure Edge Zones available to customers later this year.

SDxCentral will be keeping a running list of changes to trade shows and events tied to the COVID-19 virus.

The equipment provides an environment on which to run virtual network functions like those for SD-WAN.

Traditional RAN site deployments have been dropping off since 2017 and will represent less than 15% of all deployments by 2025.

The carrier's network will have 500 base stations covering around 150 “locations” around the country at launch, with plans to expand to all prefectures by June.

In addition to leading the Series B, Juniper and Cox are also StackPath customers although they use its edge computing platform in different ways.

Nokia has also established a 5G WING lab in Dallas to give operators a testing ground for emerging IoT use cases.

The vendor will put the new funding toward accelerating innovation that will drive Kubernetes acceptance to become the compute standard.

“Edge compute is like a private data center but worse, like way worse,” NetFoundry CEO Galeal Zino said.

This programmable fabric with embedded security functions will allow network operators to deploy firewalls as software-based platforms rather than hardware appliances, according to AT&T.

AT&T slashed more jobs; Google targeted telcos with Global Mobile Edge Cloud platform; and Nokia hedged its 5G Chip bets.

One of the services encrypts and replicates identity data across multiple online servers on the blockchain so there’s no centralized database.

As mobile edge computing takes hold in networks around the world, multiple overlapping and seemingly redundant alliances are bubbling up to the surface.

Oracle, which holds a $40 million stake in Ampere, has announced plans to leverage the Altra platform in its Gen 2 Cloud.

Coronavirus canceled more tech events; Equinix paid $335 million for Packet; and Rakuten Mobile dismissed open RAN skeptics.

Nokia Software CTO Ron Haberman likened the potential business models for mobile edge computing to those pursued by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

“This is Equinix being extremely self-aware,” Packet CEO Zach Smith said, using an “Of Mice and Men” analogy. “Lennie doesn’t kill the rabbit.”