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Verizon Cascades Cash Into Casa Systems’ MEC Model

Verizon took an investment stake in cloud-native core vendor Casa Systems, which further diversifies the telecom giant’s MEC plans. Read more.

Rakuten Symphony CMO Sets Open RAN Limits

Open radio access network architecture enjoys a simple premise with complicated caveats. Not everything can be truly open. Read more.

Mandiant Plans to Partner Its Way to Security Domination

Mandiant set a roadmap to collaborate with almost all of its competitors, fellow security vendors, and cloud service providers. Read more.

Google Seeks Grid Decarbonization, Energy Market Reform

Google released its clean energy policy roadmap that outlines recommendations for decarbonizing electricity grids globally. Read more.

Public Cloud Spending to Near $500B in 2022

The surge of public cloud services will continue in 2022 and nearly capture $495 billion in global spending this year, according to Gartner. Read more.

Can AI Save IBM’s Mainframe Biz From AWS?

Mainframes are responsible for every financial transaction today. But that could soon change if AWS has its way. Read more.