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Nvidia DPU Eyes Data Center Domination

Nvidia's data processing units are based on Mellanox BlueField 2 smartNICs announced in February. Read more.

VMware Hunts Zombies, Summons Sustainability Second Wave

“The low-hanging fruit has been picked,” said VMware's Victor Firoiu. “We need a second evolution in the sustainability of computation.” Read more.

Supermicro CEO Mounts 5G Strategy

“Our goal is to not just have servers, storage, and IoT, but 5G telco and provide them an open architecture using open x86 hardware,” CEO Charles Liang said. Read more.

Surveillance Fuels $17.4B Government IoT Spending Spree

Governments are projected to spend $14.7 billion globally on IoT this year, earmarking $6.7 billion or 45.6% for outdoor surveillance. Read more.

Cloudflare Gifts Free API Security for Its Birthday

“Every year on our birthday, we give back with a series of product announcements of things that we can do that make the internet as a whole better,” CEO Matthew Prince said. Read more.

NTT DoCoMo Signals 5G to Stretch Its Cloud Across Borders

The work targets technical support issues at manufacturing plants that can’t be resolved by sending a technician overseas due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Read more.

Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — September 2020

Synchronoss' CEO resigned; Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey stepped down; plus the latest headcount movements from September. Read more.