Cost savings often remains the primary goal. “Even telcos who don’t care about the environment do care about costs,” MTN Consulting analyst Matt Walker explained.

The attackers accessed the Aruba Central cloud environment using an unauthorized access key and exposed two data repositories, according to an HPE security advisory.

“The data cloud at Snowflake is not an idea or a long-term goal,” Snowflake SVP Christian Kleinerman said. “It is a reality, it's happening today.”

Ericsson’s offering is based on some open RAN specifications, but it’s not exclusive to open RAN architecture, Ericsson VP Santiago Rodriguez said.

“We’re six weeks ahead of our goal, but we’re years ahead of where our competition is today on that mid-band rollout," T-Mobile President of Technology Neville Ray said.

Open RAN isn’t an alternative to Chinese equipment; software frameworks are critical as AI becomes a do-or-die phenomenon; and Netography raised $45 million in Series A funding.

The chipmaker claims its Alveo FPGAs can go toe to toe with Nvidia's GPU-based accelerators while offering greater compute density, power efficiency, and integrated networking.

CEO Martin Roesch named Vectra AI, Darktrace, and ExtraHop as Netography’s competitors.

Solo.io raised $135 million to reach unicorn status; Cisco acquired replex to bolster its observability platform; and Rakuten Mobile acquired Estmob.

Vodafone will deploy VMware's Telco Cloud Platform in European markets; Kyndryl announced a partnership with Microsoft; and Extreme Networks reported a solid first fiscal quarter of 2022.

“Is it fast enough for them to maximize their market share? Time will tell,” analyst and report author Grant Lenahan said. “We’re trying to sound the alarm.”

“In cloud-managed networking ... our 13% market share is larger than the No. 3 and No. 4 vendor share combined,” Extreme CEO Ed Meyercord said.

The companies aim to accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption, advance artificial intelligence, enhance cybersecurity resilience, and modernize enterprise IT operations.

The expansive deal positions VMware as Vodafone’s central nervous system for networks and IT systems.

CSPs expect 5G energy costs will rise; Juniper Networks previewed its Edge Services Platform; and Fortinet is addressing the gender gap in cybersecurity.

The networking giant's Edge Services Platform provides lifecycle management, observability, and troubleshooting services for DPU-accelerated data centers.

VMware research finds employees want transparent spying; and Cisco powers AT&T's latest managed SASE.

A recent survey from GSMA Intelligence reported 67% of communications service providers expect energy costs to rise through 2024 in line with current trends.

Gartner named the top firewall providers; Verizon and AT&T delayed the launch of 5G on C-band spectrum; and AMD released its Milan-X CPUs and Instinct MI200 AI accelerators.

Meta also said it wants to develop an “open and standard die-to-die interface” for data center operators to integrate open chiplets into their facilities.

The new switch silicon complements Nvidia's growing networking ecosystem, including its upcoming ConnectX-7 NICs and BlueField-3 DPUs.

The update marks Cisco's latest move in its full-stack observability strategy that began with its $1 billion Thousand Eyes acquisition.

The EPYC refresh comes as AMD scores another victory over rival Intel. Meta this week announced a new, more power-efficient server platform powered by team red’s EPYC 3 processors.

There's no guarantee the one-month delay, which pushes back initial 5G network activations to the first week of January 2022, won't be extended further into next year.