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Lags in performance are not the result of technology choices or strategy, Rakuten EVP Tareq Amin said. Read more.

Any SD-WAN vendor with support for AWS Transit Gateway Connect can now integrate with Bitglass' SASE platform. Read more.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumped to Intel; SAP snagged a Microsoft cloud executive, and SoftBank shook up its executive ranks. Read more.

One of the early appointments by the new administration was that of David Recordon as director of technology in the White House’s Office of Management and Administration. Recordon has a long history as a developer in the open source community. Read more.

The more grandiose vision and potential success of Rakuten Mobile, and open RAN by extension, is still rooted in theoretical terms. Read more.

Previously, Gilson was Google’s director of large customer sales for emerging markets where she grew the multi-billion-dollar emerging market division more than 66%. Read more.