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"In general, we are not seeing any side effects of the epidemic" and no impact on 5G construction, Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin told SDxCentral last month. Read more.

Oracle claims the cloud cost calculator offers an “apples-to-apples” comparison between its own cloud infrastructure and that of AWS. Read more.

The survey of finance executives found that 11% cut staff in March compared with 25% that have or are planning to cut staff in May and June. Read more.

The new feature lets application teams build software-defined perimeters around individual application instances. Read more.

Microsoft overhauled its Azure VMware platform; Cisco patched a dozen high-severity security bugs; and Ericsson now expects a 5G surge. Presented by: Silver Peak.