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AT&T CEO Warns U.S. Economy Will Worsen“I think you have to kind of plan for a little bit of downside,” AT&T CEO John Stankey said. "The last six months, my life has been expect the unexpected.” Read more.
Will Snowflake’s Largest-Ever Software IPO Raise $4B?Snowflake had 3,117 customers as of July 31, including seven of the Fortune 10 and 146 of the Fortune 500. Read more.
Palo Alto Networks Updates SD-WAN With AIOps, New HardwareThe announcement marks the first major update to Palo Alto Network's SD-WAN platform since the company acquired CloudGenix in April. Read more.
Pure Storage Pays $370M for Portworx to Unify Container Storage StackPure Storage's Matt Kixmoeller calls the combination of Pure Storage and Portworx "an opportunity to provide the most complete storage platform." Read more.
Dell Plans Job Cuts, VMware May Reduce Remote PayCOO Jeff Clarke reportedly told staff during a quarterly meeting that workforce reductions won’t be limited to a particular team or division within the company. Read more.
Xilinx Snags ‘First-Mover Advantage’ With Open RAN CardDimitris Mavrakis, senior research director at ABI Research, called the product a “major breakthrough and significant milestone in the evolution of open RAN.” Read more.
Rakuten Mobile Inks Open RAN Tie-Up With TelefónicaTelefónica will deploy open RAN base stations next year and intends to transition at least 50% of its markets to open RAN by 2025, according to CTO Enrique Blanco. Read more.
Extreme Debuts New Switches, WAPs, Enhanced Cloud ManagementExtreme's Universal Platform seeks to address the needs of wildly different customers through software personas. Read more.
Pandemic Reveals a Work From Home Success StoryIn response to the COVID-19 crisis, networking and security vendors have moved quickly to address challenges. Read more.
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