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Google Takes Aim at AWS With VMware EngineThe new Google Cloud VMware Engine comes almost a year after the two companies first announced a hybrid cloud partnership. Read more.
Red Hat Extends OpenShift Control Into AWSMicrosoft Azure gained similar capabilities last year. Read more.
Cisco CEO: During Pandemic, Customers Want Vendors They Trust“Customers in times like these want to go with people they trust and know, and I think that will work in our favor,” CEO Chuck Robbins said on Cisco’s Q3 earnings call. Read more.
Fortinet CMO: Pandemic Puts SD-WAN, Security in the SpotlightThe ongoing pandemic has only served to exacerbate the situation and reveal these challenges, said Fortinet CMO John Maddison. Read more.
Pandemic Accelerates Amazon’s Vision for the FutureWe’re optimistic about the future and the ways in which technology that you will create will help to make it a better world," Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said. Read more.
Slow Drip to Service Mesh With HashiCorp Consul 1.8The release features new ingress gateway, terminating gateway, and WAN federation over mesh gateway tools to enable an incremental migration to service mesh. Read more.
Microsoft Munches Metaswitch to Satiate 5G CravingThe deal comes less than two months after Microsoft acquired virtualized evolved packet core vendor Affirmed Networks. Read more.
Nvidia Pulls Piping Hot AI Chip Straight From the OvenThe new Ampere-based AI accelerator unifies training and inference workloads into a single high-performance form factor. Read more.