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HPE Moves HQ From Silicon Valley to Houston

HPE will relocate from its storied Silicon Valley roots where founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started the company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939. Read more.

AWS Chief Clarifies Hybrid Cloud Vision

“We think of hybrid infrastructures, including the cloud along with various other edge nodes — on-premises data centers being one of them, but there are several,” AWS CEO Andy Jassy said. Read more.

Alkira Rolls Software-Defined Underlay Into Multi-Cloud Offering

The platform takes advantage of the large private networks built by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft and allows customers to define their underlay in a matter of hours. Read more.

AWS Jams Daylight Between Outposts, Local Zones, Wavelength

Wavelengths, Local Zones, and Outposts are a collection of the many ways AWS wants to bring its cloud platform to customers wherever they are, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said. Read more.

Nokia Confirms C-Suite Exits

Marcus Weldon, CTO and president of Nokia Bell Labs, and Basil Alwan and Sri Reddy, co-presidents of the IP/Optical Networks unit at Nokia will be leaving the company soon. Read more.

Broadcom Sharpens Tomahawk Switch Chips, Versatile SmartToR

Broadcom's Trident SmartToR chip operates in a similar vein to a smartNIC by offloading functionality that would otherwise be handled by the CPU. Read more.

Amazon Detonates Sonic Boom of Storage Updates

During his opening keynote, CEO Andy Jassy announced four additions to AWS’ storage services that could easily be mistaken for a family of Star Wars droids. Read more.