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The waves created by moving Istio into the Open Usage Commons group could have been tempered had it done that with Knative instead. I am glad it didn't. Read more.

“Our teams have to be representative of those we serve, and that’s one of the biggest opportunities we have in this industry,” said Cisco’s Dug Song. Read more.

“I feel as if I am in a privileged position of having both an insider’s and an outsider’s perspective on Nokia," CEO Pekka Lundmark wrote. Read more.

The Kubernetes 1.19 release should have dropped at some point around June 30. However, external events altered that plan. Read more.

In addition to routing, next-generation firewall, and SD-WAN capabilities the FortiGate 80F boasts integrated WiFi and a power-over-Ethernet switch. Read more.

Nvidia’s interest in Arm comes at a time when the chipmaker, best known for its GPUs, is rapidly expanding into new verticals including cloud, AI compute, and switching. Read more.

Palo Alto Networks beat Cisco; Verizon pushed Nokia out; HPE geared up for a Cisco fight; and Google irked IBM with Istio. Read more.