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Verizon plans to have edge compute availability in 10 markets by the end of the year. Read more.

Passwords aren’t user friendly or an effective form of security. So why do we still use them? Read more.

“You’re seeing this transition from burglary to home invasion or from the heist to a hostage situation,” VMware Carbon Black’s Tom Kellermann said. Read more.

The managed service provider aims to fortify customer's WAN from increasingly sophisticated security threats. Read more.

“Other cloud vendors chose to implement a shortcut to VMware with managed or hosted solutions, but we found that approach to be limiting,” explained Oracle's Clive D'Souza. Read more.

Politics routinely bubble up around open RAN discussions and muddy the technological benefits of open, disaggregated, software-driven networks. Read more.

While the company's revenues were down 14% year over year, Extreme posted promising quarter-over-quarter gains in Q4. Read more.