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Google Cloud Beats Rivals, Wins Deal With Deutsche Bank

The U.S. Federal Reserve considers Deutsche Bank a badly managed lender in “troubled condition” and it has been caught in multiple schemes. Read more.

Samsung Pledges 5G vRAN Availability by Fall 2020

Samsung is also preparing to make dynamic spectrum sharing, a standalone 5G core, and network slicing commercially available before the end of the year. Read more.

Optical Competition Heats Up in First Half of 2020

Despite pushing optical technologies closer to the limit, many vendors are facing financial challenges due to the pandemic. Read more.

VMware Bolsters Analytics Suite With True Visibility Buy

The True Visibility Suite enables VMware customers to automatically discover, map, and analyze their data center and hybrid-cloud infrastructure. Read more.

F5 Defends Apps Against Bot Attacks Using Shape AI

F5 bought Shape for $1 billion late last year. Shape’s network blocks more than 1 billion application attacks daily. Read more.

Afi Data Platform Release Tackles Kubernetes Resilience, Replication

Its namesake Data Platform monitors, protects, and recovers Kubernetes-based workloads running in Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. Read more.