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DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has been acquired by Google as part of Google Cloud.

Telecom Italia (TIM), Qualcomm Technologies, and Ericsson successfully completed the first, live video call in Europe using 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum.

Qualcomm released a new modem purpose-built for IoT applications.

NTT Communications announced it was buying a majority stake in Transatel, a global internet of things cellular connectivity management provider.

ETSI formed an Industry Specification Group for blockchain and other distributed ledgers.

AT&T launched a new security service. The service offers cloud recovery with Sungard availability services and is supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Keysight Technologies submitted a 5G NR non-standalone (NSA) test case submission using Keysight’s 5G Protocol Conformance Toolset. It is the first 3GPP conformance test case at mmWave frequencies using an over-the-air (OTA) test methodology.

Red Hat announced the availability of long-term commercial support for OpenJDK on Microsoft Windows.

Evolved packet core revenues grew 145 percent in the third quarter of 18 compared to the same quarter in 2017 according to a new report from Dell'Oro.

SAP and Software AG jointly launched an open IoT platform designed specifically for smart cities.

A10 Networks released a version of its cloud-native application delivery product with its centralized management controller.

Red Hat announced long-term support for programming language OpenJDK on Microsoft Windows.

Big Switch Networks' Big Cloud Fabric was certified by Nutanix.

Cloud storage vendor Tintri by DDN released version 4.0 of its virtual machine (VM) monitoring platform. This is the first major release since Tintri was purchased by storage company DDN in September.

Telecommunications software provider IP Infusion launched a commercial network operating system built for 5G services such as cell site routing.

Texas-based Frost Bank renewed its contract for Martello Technologies' Savision IT operations management software products for three more years.

Canada-based IoT security startup Cybeats raised $3 million to grow its business in Toronto and abroad.

Security software startup Egress closed a $40 million Series C funding round.

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