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Juniper Jumps Into SASE With Connected Security

“Customers want simplicity, scalability, and flexibility, and moving services to the edge gives them all of that at low latency,” Juniper’s Samantha Madrid said. Read more.

Google’s Istio Move Irks IBM, Confounds Industry

IBM's Jason McGee said the move does not live up to what it thought were the eventual plans for Istio, which were to move it into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Read more.

Nokia Dives Into Data Center Market With Switch Platform

Apple already deployed the new platform, and BT Group, Equinix, Team.blue, and Turkcell are interested in or are actively trialing Nokia's switching infrastructure. Read more.

Oracle Takes On AWS Outposts

Oracle’s final — or at least latest — frontier in its ongoing cloud war against Amazon Web Services is the data center. Read more.