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Cisco Live Postponed, Robbins Pledges $5M to Fight Racism

About 13 hours before CEO Chuck Robbins was slated to deliver his opening keynote, Cisco notified attendees that it postponed the event until later this month. Read more.

Dell, VMware Supercharge AI With Bitfusion

The new Dell EMC Ready Solutions use the Bitfusion feature in vSphere 7 to manage and allocate a pool of virtual GPU accelerators, which can then be shared across data centers. Read more.

Chipmakers Lobby for $37B in Aid for US Fabs

Lobbyists within the semiconductor industry are pushing for $37 billion in subsidies to support the manufacture of domestic chip fabs. Read more.

CNTT Baldy Release Hastens Container NFVi Focus

The release includes CNTT’s first whack at its container-based reference architecture that defines a Kubernetes-based architectures for use as part of the CNTT project. Read more.

Ericsson Falls Under Financial Oversight After Corruption Scandal

The vendor is now being monitored for a three-year period, following last year’s $1.06 billion settlement with the Justice Department. Read more.

Prodapt Adds flexiWAN to Virtual Test Bed

The partnership is intended to allow service providers to more quickly and cost effectively develop and deploy flexiWAN-based SD-WAN offerings. Read more.