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IBM Injects Red Into Its Blue Executive Suite

Big Blue tapped Arvind Krishna, who led its Red Hat acquisition, to replace long-tenured CEO Ginni Rommety and promoted Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to president. Read more.

AWS Posts $10B in Q4 Sales, Dominates Public Cloud

Amazon’s public cloud grew 34% compared to last year. Analysts had expected about 30% growth from AWS this quarter. Read more.

Orange Re-Ups With Ericsson, Nokia for 5G RAN

The Swedish and Finnish vendors have long-standing agreements with Orange, and the new 5G contracts follow existing areas of operations. Read more.

Telia Norway SD-WAN Skis on Nuage 2.0 Platform

Telia SD-WAN will enable customers to rearchitect their networks using lower-cost broadband and 5G cellular connections, or shift traffic to IPsec tunnels. Read more.

Podcast: SDxCentral Weekly Wrap

VMware will fight a patent-infringement ruling, and also cut some jobs; and AT&T plans $1.5 billion in labor-cost savings tied to its SDN work. Presented by: Silver Peak.

Google Clears Windows Container Support for GKE

The update allows Windows Server containers to run alongside Linux containers in the same cluster within Google Kubernetes Engine. Read more.