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CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran credited much of the SD-WAN vendor's growth in 2019 — reportedly 300% year over year — to its ability to take on its much-larger rival. Read more.

The proposed funding pales in comparison to the amount of money Huawei and other RAN stalwarts are already investing in 5G. Read more.

“We build this distributed software that runs in the switches themselves, and so we leverage the switch sort of as if it’s a server,” said Pluribus CMO Mike Capuano. Read more.

The motion comes as the U.S. Navy is moving its largest enterprise resource planning system to the AWS cloud. Read more.

“We feel like the technology is ready but there’s more features to make it more broadly attractive, and that's what we're doing with the money,” said co-founder Mark Hinkle. Read more.

Rakuten Mobile is running about six months behind schedule on its plan to commercially deploy a fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network. Read more.

Google's Cloud Secret Manager addresses security concerns as the rise of multi-cloud continues complicating identity and access controls. Read more.