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Marvell Takes 5G RAN Battle to Broadcom With Switches, DPUs

The chipmaker claims its new switches and data processing units offer 50% lower power consumption than its competitors. Read more.

VMware CEO Claims Critical Underlay for 5G Operators, Enterprises

“Our role in 5G is we provide the 5G underlay on top of which the 5G radio access network software runs,” VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram said. Read more.

AT&T CSO: How to Implement Effective Authentication

AT&T CSO Bill O’Hern warns that the cybersecurity threat landscape is extremely intense now while “vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting is at an all-time high.” Read more.

VMware Tanzu Train Chugs Toward A Cloud-Native Future

“Tanzu is the future of VMware,” Ajay Patel said during VMworld 2021, where the vendor announced expansions to its Tanzu portfolio. Read more.

Bharti Airtel CTO: ‘5G Is a Tough Use Case’

Automation and hybrid cloud infrastructure are no longer a choice, but a necessity, Bharti Airtel CTO Randeep Sekhon said at Red Hat’s Open5G event. Read more.

VMware CTO Champions SaaS, Multi-Cloud as Win-Win Strategy

Transitioning more of VMware's expansive software portfolio to a software-as-a-service model was one of several topics covered by Kit Colbert at VMworld 2021. Read more.