The Facebook-backed consortium announced a string of new initiatives including the launch of its Evenstar remote radio unit and plans to develop disaggregated open routers.

The announcement marks Cisco's second service provider announcement in the past month.

Microsoft continued to narrow the gap as it guns for the No. 1 cloud market share position.

The contract calls for IBM to simplify the bank's dispersed IT infrastructure and improve customer experiences by allowing data, services, and workflows to be managed across multiple clouds.

AlefEdge provided its edge software stack, Packet its shared computing infrastructure-as-a-service, and Federated Wireless its shared spectrum controller.

The alliance also makes Microsoft’s Azure NTT’s preferred cloud platform for modernizing its own global IT infrastructure.

The new container security technology allows customers to apply consistent security policies across all cloud IaaS workloads, McAfee says.

The partners are pitching enterprise-grade managed internet, multi-cloud connectivity, and SD-WAN visibility services to businesses and carriers.

The variance in performance hasn't shaken Amazon's grip on the market. AWS remains the largest cloud provider by market share.

The carrier says it will be commercially deploying the open mobile transport protocol at scale in Germany.

“From the looks of it, the DoD process looked unstructured and was full of fits and starts ... almost political,” noted Moor Insights and Strategy's Patrick Moorhead.

The new security tool follows a slew of product upgrades and acquisitions as Google tries to wrestle cloud market share from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

The company will cease production of new versions of SUSE OpenStack Cloud and discontinue sales of that platform.

Vodafone, an early proponent of the Telecom Infra Project’s OpenRAN initiative, says it started trialing the technology in the United Kingdom.

The latest Anthos updates include an Istio-based service mesh and a serverless-focused Cloud Run for Anthos product.

Movere will complement Microsoft's Azure Migrate platform and the cloud provider’s integrated partner offerings.

The company explained that enterprises have increasingly become reliant on the internet, but in many Asia-Pacific markets, internet performance can fluctuate wildly.

Jio will set up a pair of new data centers in the country that will include compute, storage, and networking capabilities supporting Azure services for the India market.

The IaaS market grew 31.3% in 2018 reaching $32.4 billion in revenues. Of that, the top-five providers captured nearly 77% of the market, led by Amazon.

The project group seeks to address growing bandwidth needs by combining microwave and router technology into a single appliance capable of multiple frequency channels.

Microsoft banked $11 billion in commercial cloud revenue during the quarter and Azure revenue grew 64% but the annualized rate of growth continues to decline.

Cloudian is expanding S3-based object storage for VMware shops that want to offer services for backup, archiving, disaster recovery, big data, containers, and software development.

"Vendors want to ensure they can sell SD-WAN in conjunction with other services to maximize potential revenue deal sizes," said IHS Markit's Josh Bancroft.

That victory came on the back of its applications business, which generated $8.5 billion in revenues last year compared to just $32 million generated by Amazon.