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COVID-19 Pushes Microsoft, Dell, Red Hat to Virtualize Events

All three of those vendors have shifted planned events from a physical setting to a virtual one in light of health concerns tied to the virus. Read more.

Telia Taps Cisco Viptela SD-WAN

The operator says the ability to remotely provision Viptela on customer's existing WAN hardware makes it ideally suited to meet multinational enterprises' WAN needs. Read more.

Mighty Morphin HPE Unleashes Container Platform

Tom Phelan, a fellow for big data and storage organization at HPE, said the container platform’s bare-metal deployment capability is a “differentiator.” Read more.

Microsoft, Intel, Fortanix Execs Get Confidential at RSA

“Confidential computing is one of the most important and relevant new paradigms that you folks will hear in the near future,” said Intel’s Anil Rao. Read more.

Cisco Deploys SDN, Optical Transport for 5G in Asia

Bharti Airtel is preparing to deploy 5G with an “IP over Ethernet over fiber” network that it describes as the “largest hyper-complex brownfield network transformation of its kind in India.” Read more.