“Today, we are a leader in 5G with 78 commercial 5G agreements with unique operators and 24 live 5G networks on four continents," CEO Börje Ekholm said.

CloudGenix CEO took aim at Cisco; Amazon wouldn't throw in the towel on JEDI fight; and the US pledged $1B to roast Huawei with open RAN 5G.

“We build this distributed software that runs in the switches themselves, and so we leverage the switch sort of as if it’s a server effectively,” Pluribus Networks CMO Mike

CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran credited much of the SD-WAN vendor's growth in 2019 — reportedly 300% year over year — to its ability to take on its much-larger rival.

The security startup has about a dozen paying customers and is “working with some of the largest service providers,” said CEO Guru Pai.

DigitalOcean drowned jobs in restructuring efforts; McAfee ousted CEO; Oracle set a record-breaking critical patch update, fixed 334 bugs.

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.

The company did not provide specifics on the number of jobs that will be cut, but reports indicated it could be up to 50 positions, which could be about

“If they hired Peter Leav they are setting up to sell,” said analyst Zeus Kerravala.

SD-WAN has the potential to address many of IoT's security and operational challenges, says Apcela CEO Mark Casey.

“For the U.S. government to share its discovery of a critical vulnerability with a vendor is exceptionally rare if not unprecedented,” said Amit Yoran, CEO of Tenable.

Equinix dominates the colocation market with more than 200 data centers in 55 markets globally. But these are typically huge facilities located in major internet hubs.

The combo allows enterprises to more easily migrate workloads from their IBM-powered on-premises environments into Google’s Cloud.

"The plans we are announcing today are expected to lead to headcount reductions globally," the company said in a statement.

Masergy wants to make it easier for its SD-WAN customers to identify and address unauthorized use of software-as-a-service apps.

“We need to figure out how [edge] impacts how we execute our business,” Charles Meyers said.

AT&T’s ongoing network virtualization effort, specifically the amount of core network functions it has moved to SDN, has been tangled in ambiguity.

“These technologies are not standalone technologies, they’re actually reinforcing,” Intel CEO Bob Swan said.

Adaptiv plans to roll LiveQoS's software portfolio into its SD-WAN offering in a move to accelerate latency and bandwidth sensitive applications.

AMD CEO Lisa Su described the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X as the “very first 64-core processor in the mainstream in a desktop form factor.”

Company President Cristiano Amon said the product will be “deployed commercially at scale in the second half of this year."

Juniper CTO Bikash Koley calls it quits; Larry Ellison says Oracle will not replace Hurd; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Amazon claims to have bolstered its FedRAMP compliance by nearly 18% since the beginning of December.

Aviatrix CEO: SD-WAN is dead. AWS killed it; Fortinet leapfrogs Cisco with 21,000 SD-WAN customers; VMware, Silver Peak lead SD-WAN pack; and Juniper CTO quits.