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“As the 5G edge unfolds, we’ll start to see more of a marriage between the telcos and hyperscale clouds,” said Nick McQuire, SVP at CCS Insight. Read more.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Cisco said it expects the acquisition to close before the end of the year, bolstering its IoT business. Read more.

That challenge will rely heavily on IBM’s Red Hat business unit, which also received a new leader. Read more.

The two companies will offer enterprise customers managed security services for cloud and network as well as managed security operations centers. Read more.

Wood is no stranger to the SD-WAN market. He joined Versa’s executive team in February after a brief stint at Apstra and three years as CMO at Velocloud. Read more.

Cisco, Hitachi cut hundreds of jobs; Nokia CEO walked the plank; AT&T slashed jobs; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes. Read more.

A task force made up of computer scientists at Nvidia has joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium in an effort to find a vaccine for COVID-19. Read more.