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Huawei released its earnings results for the first half of 2018. It raised about $47.58 billion in revenue, a 15-percent increase year over year.

Verizon and Motorola debuted a 5G-upgradeable smartphone, which will be sold by Verizon.

The FCC established the application and bidding procedures for the first 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum auction, scheduled to begin November 14.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted Harbor, an open source cloud native registry, as a Sandbox-level hosted project.

Marvell laid off 44 people following its acquisition of Cavium.

Google purchased property near Dallas to build a data center.

Red Hat released version 3.10 of its OpenShift Container Platform.

Hyperledger, the Linux Foundation’s blockchain group, added nine members, taking its total to more than 250 members.

The Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) Fund added eight new members.

Arista Networks released its hybrid cloud networking platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Windstream added 300 miles of fiber routes between Phoenix and Las Vegas. It also refinanced more than $1.4 billion in bonds.

Amdocs is leading work for virtual network functions (VNF) onboarding automation tools for ETSI and the Linux Foundation’s Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP).

Vonage acquired TokBox, a Telefónica subsidiary that specializes in WebRTC programmable video, for $35 million.

NetApp and Nvidia jointly built an artificial intelligence (AI) architecture.

Codefresh launched Codefresh Enterprise, which bundles developer support for Windows, ARM, and Linux, and with role-based access control (RBAC) and access to hybrid infrastructure.

Data security company Mimecast acquired Solebit, a security software developer, for $88 million.

Scality released version 7.4.1. of Ring, with software-defined storage (SDS) security capabilities.

New Relic opened a new office in London. The company also launched general availability of its distributed tracing capability.

CA Technologies is participating in a European project to provide software engineers with tools to make applications GDPR and regulation compliant.

Apstra built an objective intent-based networking (IBN) taxonomy model that evaluates the maturity of IBN products.

Digital Realty added 1.6 megawatts (MW) of colocation capacity to its facility in Santa Clara, California.

Security company Fidelis Cybersecurity released a managed detection and response service.

DocuSign acquired contract lifecycle management software company SpringCM.

Technology group Rohde & Schwarz purchased full control of Lancom Systems. Lancom will still operate as an independent subsidiary of the group.

Data analytics software provider Dremio received an investment from Cisco Investments, bringing total funding to $45 million.

Univa partnered with Sylabs to integrate Sylabs’ container platform with Univa Grid Engine.

AlienVault released general availability of its endpoint detection and response capabilities for its Unified Security Management (USM) platform.

Carbon Black launched a real-time query and response tool for its predictive security cloud platform.

Security provider Bay Dynamics integrated its user and entity behavior analytics platform with CyberSponse’s security automation and incident response platform.

Protego, a serverless security company, partnered with cloud native developer Mode2 to add serverless security to Mode2 customer environments.

ServerCentral released its managed storage gateway for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Threat Intelligence launched Evolve, its unified security automation platform.

Threat intelligence provider Recorded Future partnered with FraudWatch to provide takedown services.

Machine data provider OverOps launched its OverOps platform to support AI operation use cases.

Storage and NVMe software provider Exten released a storage software platform for incorporating NVMe-oF, Redfish, and Swordfish open source standards for data centers and workloads.

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