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The move comes as companies in nearly every industry come under the pressure of the chip crunch, with many facing higher component prices and longer lead times. Read more.

Red Hat joined OS-Climate, a non-profit backed by the Linux Foundation developing a data commons for financial institutions to integrate climate change into risk management. Read more.

“The Nokia announcement is part of an effort to make open RAN a political issue,” Monica Paolini, principal analyst at Senza Fili, told SDxCentral. Read more.

“It’s encouraging the use of deploying point products to build a bigger footprint of tools that we know is killing security analysts already through fatigue,” Ian McShane said. Read more.

While NEC’s 5G effort with AWS is new, the company has been pushing heavily into the arena for years as it aims to grow beyond its traditional footprint in Japan. Read more.

“The key target clientele for E1080 are enterprises seeking extreme performance, scalability, energy efficiency, and security for their digital environments," analyst Joe Clabby said. Read more.

"Investors know all the spoils are going to go to the category leaders... and we’re becoming that” for multi-cloud, Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney said. Read more.