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Amazon Cloud Sales Jump 39%, Top $16.1B

The rate of growth in Amazon Web Services continues to climb, hitting a year-over-year increase of 39% during the third quarter of 2021. Read more.

Gelsinger Brings Geek Chic Back to Intel

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to put the needs of developers at the center of what Intel does. Something he admits “we haven’t done a great job of recently.” Read more.

AT&T Plants Palo Alto Networks’ Firewall Into Managed 5G Security

The managed firewall is available to U.S.-based AT&T Business customers that use the carrier’s edge, IoT, private network, or multi-access edge computing services. Read more.

Samsung’s Wireless Knots Ciena’s Wireline, Guns for Nokia, Ericsson

Samsung and Ciena joined forces to provide both hardware and software for 5G networks, thus giving telecom operators an alternative to Nokia and Ericsson. Read more.

SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap

Cisco acquired replex; IBM announced partnerships with Cisco and Palo Alto Networks; and Devo Technology reached unicorn status after its latest funding round. Stream now.