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AWS Revenue Tops $10 Billion in Q1Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company will spend $4 billion or more — all of its expected Q2 profit — on COVID-19 related costs. Read more.
Cisco Squashes Yet Another SD-WAN BugWhile Cisco says it is not aware of any malicious use of the vulnerability, with 20,000 customers around the world using Cisco SD-WAN, the high-severity bug remains notable. Read more.
Fortinet CISO: Here’s What ‘New Normal’ Cloud Security Needs“My advice to companies right now is to really think about what will happen next,” said Fortinet VP and Global Field CISO Jonathan Nguyen-Duy. Read more.
How Rakuten Mobile Overcame First-of-its-Kind Network Challenges“You need to be the owner of your own destiny and this disaggregation strategy needs to be looked at as a holistic end-to-end story,” said Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin. Read more.
Vast Data Believes Sharing Is Caring (for Your Data)The vendor's latest update release looks to entice customers of the legacy "shared-nothing" scale-out, storage systems with a disaggregated, shared-everything model. Read more.
SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — April 2020VMware claimed SD-WAN dominance over Cisco; Cisco SD-WAN struck back against VMware; and Nokia stared down a hostile takeover bid. Read more.
Podcast: SDxCentral Weekly WrapThe ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is stressing networks; Microsoft continues to reach for Amazon; and AT&T is set for a new CEO. Presented by: Silver Peak
Verizon Virtualization Efforts Vanquished COVID-19 Chaos“If we hadn't done virtualization, this would have been a multi-week, multi-month effort to bring in new capacity," Verizon's Srini Kalapala said. Read more.