The VNFs are initially launching in five locations: London; Amsterdam; Singapore; California's Silicon Valley; and Ashburn, Virginia.

The capabilities will allow customers to “tie each branch to enterprise data center databases, SaaS applications, and multi-cloud services while meeting SLAs and application QoE expectations," says Cisco's Anand

The deal will allow customers to run VMware’s software stack in Microsoft’s Azure public cloud. And it’s similar to the 2016 hybrid cloud partnership between Amazon and VMware.

MSP program customers are ensured compatibility with Cloudian’s technology partners’ software for data protection, big data, backup, archive, and data management.

The startup provides a real-time network to send and manage message traffic and stream data between companies, applications, and IoT devices.

The partners still “compete every day in the marketplace for hyperconverged deals — we haven’t been shy in having conversations about that,” said HPE’s Paul Miller.

This follows data from Synergy Research Group that hyperscale operators increased their capex by 48 percent in 2018.

Founded by former Yahoo security officer Jeremiah Grossman, WhiteHat takes a DevSecOps approach to protecting applications.

Three years after launching at MWC, TIP for the first time showed how its technologies work together in an end-to-end mobile network architecture.

The edge computing company is open sourcing some of the code through the Telecom Infra Project.

Smaller rivals Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, and IBM if combined would be about equal to AWS' market share. And they are taking market share from smaller players.

Last year, Alibaba Group restructured its cloud computing arm in an effort to make Alibaba Cloud its “main business” in the future. AliCloud grew 84 percent year over year

It sounds similar to VMware’s “NSX everywhere” push, which seeks to stretch that vendor’s networking and security capabilities from data centers to clouds and the edge.

Silver Peak’s EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform is now certified by Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.

Canonical says the latest version of its platform for IoT and container deployments will reduce three things: time to market, software development risk, and security maintenance costs.

AWS purchases a disaster recovery startup; Synchronoss and TBSCASoft build blockchain for telecom operators; Red Hat releases a new version of its enterprise workflow framework.

Bloomberg’s network engineers are using Apstra’s software to gain visibility across the network fabric supporting the building's media production systems.

The opening days of 2019 also saw Sophos purchase cloud security startup Avid Secure and Akamai Technologies reach a deal to acquire Janrain.

While Cisco maintained its dominance in the enterprise infrastructure market, HPE beat out the vendor in the data center server segment of the market.

On average, it takes $10,500 for a wish. And the Foundation must balance the need to grant wishes with the need to update its IT infrastructure.

“Nobody gets to keep a lock on cloud computing,” Wasabi CEO David Friend said. “As much as Amazon would like to, it’s going to be a multi-cloud world.”

An IPO is on the horizon but being acquired is not. “We are fiercely independent,” Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri said.

The OpenStack Platform 14 update makes it easier to install and run OpenShift in that environment and to run Kubernetes-orchestrated containers on bare metal.

Alibaba Group’s CEO said that cloud computing will be its “main business” in the future — following closely in Amazon’s footsteps.