B2B pickle player picks Plex to optimize its supply chain and manufacturing

Chipmaker goes on offensive just weeks after Apple sued it for $1 billion.

Huawei's David Wang talks about interoperability, Trump and innovation, and weighs up the key differences between telcos and OTT players.

Infoblox's latest appliance, Trinzic Flex, brings its traditional DNS, DHCP and more to SDN and NFV at carrier scale.

Open source provides the store chain with the tools it needs to weather a tough retail environment, a Target VP explains.

Meet the 2017 finalists for Women in Comms' second-annual Leading Lights in the categories of Most Inspiring Woman in Comms and Female Tech Pioneer of the Year.

Open Networking Summit presentation makes clear that AT&T's journey to differentiated services is one most operators will need to take.

With the acquisition, Microsoft gets expertise in container management and open source.

Deal gives AT&T 39GHz coverage across the US.

The first meeting of the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee is scheduled for next week, and I'm not optimistic.

Let's hear it for the little guys...

New report from Think with Google finds that some teens are spending more time watching videos online than messaging.

Hong Kong operator aims to stay in the vanguard of next-generation mobile network activity.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: major data breach at payday loans company; MTS trumpets onlines sales success; Nokia does IoT research Down Under.

The company relies on open source to improve agility in the face of business difficulties.

Enterprise Cloud News caught up with Ty Schmitt, a Dell Fellow and executive director for Extreme Scale Infrastructure with Dell EMC, to find out how the cloud market is changing.

French media giant and Telecom Italia shareholder is bidding for greater control over the Italian operator.

Jill Sciarappo has bounced all over Intel building a rewarding career that has ultimately led her to the driver's seat of the chipmaker's self-driving cars division.

Growth of network consortia with open API frameworks will give rise to programmable peering with end-to-end visibility, Equinix CTO says.

Deutsche Telekom will start offering 4K Ultra HD channels as part of its Entertain TV service later this year,

A report from analytics firm Teradata finds that despite security concerns, cloud adoption is moving ahead at most enterprises.

South Korean tech giant expects operating income to rise sharply in the first quarter, and the forthcoming S8 update bodes well for sales growth later in the year.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: London's Square Mile signs public WiFi deal; Telenor sells shares in VEON; Spotify may go for direct listing; Virgin Media does Devon.

New entrant Jio has put huge pressure on India's existing operators, but it faces growth challenges of its own.

In an update to the Pivotal Foundry Cloud, the company is offering expanded support for Microsoft Windows and .NET applications.

This week in our WiC roundup: The happiest cities for women may not be the most profitable; men don't care much about diversity in tech; the healthy hackathon; and more.

But 5G smartphones will come with a 4G LTE connection always-on.

Comcast's new mobile service may be WiFi-first, but that only applies to data usage at launch, not traditional voice calls.

Once its acquisition of Comptel is complete, Nokia will hold a prime virtualized services orchestration relationship with Deutsche Telekom.

Operator also exploring pushing CORD closer to the network edge, says Srini Kalapala, VP of global technology and supplier strategy.

Former AT&T exec, now with Huawei, says vendor-specific solutions will be needed within open source frameworks for some time to come.

Amazon Web Services is still tops in the public cloud market, but a new survey says its losing some of its luster to Microsoft Azure and Google Public Cloud.

Verizon is calling it a content intelligence system, or the Verizon Media Xperience Studio.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telenor Norway and Cisco Jasper link up on IoT; Telia Carrier adds PoP in Berlin; BICS gets into the Coriant Groove; Nokia lands 100G contract in Japan.

MWC 2017 underlined the fact that success in IoT can only be achieved if operators embrace virtualization.

Take control of your career and confront stereotypes, overcome biases and achieve the full measure of success to which your talent, hard work and ambition entitle you.

A new Upskill U series on Analytics starts Friday with a course on predictive analytics led by returning speaker Prof. Nick Feamster.

Four months after Microsoft closed its LinkedIn acquisition, the two organizations have decided good fences make good neighbors in the cloud.

Unlike the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, OpenStack is not dead.

The mobile industry's ambitions are taking flight with unmanned aerial vehicles.

Six years after a purchase by Intel, McAfee is once again a private company with a new focus and an old name.

YouTube is the latest to launch an online TV service, starting in five markets.

Newly converged open source MANO group quickly becoming poster child for Linux Foundation's harmonization efforts.

In a rollicking fireside chat, Liberty Global CTO Balan Nair expounds on MSO's plans to roll out DOCSIS 3.1, DAA, Fiber, 5G and OTT.

At first glance, two recent announcements by Google and Amazon have little to do with each other, and yet there is a connection.

Blue Planet orchestrator prepared to contribute to and support new open source MANO effort.

Open source developments abound in the virtualization sector and much of it is revolving around the Linux Foundation, as Virtuapedia entries show.

MWC17 will be remembered as the event in which server platforms have, almost without anyone noticing, attained a truly impressive performance curve that could never have been anticipated a decade ago.

Jeni Panhorst from Intel's Network Platforms Group explains why you should embrace mentoring of all kinds.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Spotify agrees deal with Universal Music; Telia expands global backbone in US; Kontron works with Lufthansa on in-flight connectivity.

In its first large release since the acquisition, AppDynamics is turning its attention to developers and how its technology can make DevOps work in the enterprise.

German incumbent's new StreamOn service should help it fend off the mobile challenge from Vodafone, if regulators allow it.

At the Open Networking Summit, Nicira Cofounder Martin Casado reflects on the business lessons from the earliest days of SDN.

IP and optical integration has a long history, but years of product announcements and demonstrations did not materialize in major commercial deployments -- until now.

OVH is a big deal as a global cloud provider, and hopes buying VMware's vCloud Air assets will drive business in the US, where it's relatively unknown.

The latest iteration of Google's SDN architecture looks to boost performance at the edge of the cloud.

AT&T and T-Mobile are gearing up to test services for the CBRS band.

AT&T's new white box switches bring a new range of exciting services while also posing a threat to traditional OEMs. 

Google details technology used to speed up cloud performance at the network edge.

Iliad reportedly wants to grab a quarter of Italy's mobile market, but the strategy it employed to devastating effect in France is unlikely to bear the same fruit.

One by one, SDN and network virtualization schemes have adapted to include containers. At ONS yesterday, it was Microsoft Azure's turn.

Another complicated financial transaction is putting new cable assets into the hands of cable kingpin John Malone.

Today is Equal Pay Day, the day the average woman would have to work up to in 2017 to make the same amount men made in 2016.

A Barefoot Networks chip and SnapRoute software found their way into AT&T's network in less than eight weeks.

The government-backed plan to build a nationwide wholesale 4G network has now settled on its infrastructure suppliers, but the road ahead for it could be long and tortuous.

Salesforce is looking to boost inside sales productivity using its Einstein AI.

Filament uses its own variant of LoRa for industrial IoT.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Iliad's Italian aspirations; Telenor targets IoT entrepreneurs; Deutsche Telekom promotes guilt-free mobile streaming.

Active real-time network topology is a hot topic as operators move ahead with software-defined networks and virtualized network functions.

Enterprise spending on artificial intelligence and cognitive computing is to increase nearly 60% compared to 2016.

Cisco SVP and GM of cloud collaboration talked about the latest Cisco Spark news at Enterprise Connect 2017.

Open source group claims to have a full next-gen networking stack in one collaborative environment with cohesive testing and deployment.

Global Capacity taps VeloCloud's cloud-based SD-WAN technology to expand its global enterprise networking portfolio with software-defined services.

Ken Presti explains why the work of New IP Agency (NIA) is more important than ever – and why he feels privileged to be its new director.

Two industry leaders tell the Open Networking Summit audience there are investment, culture change and harmonization problems to be solved.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services, along with the Justice Department, have issued new warnings for companies looking to use the H-1B visa program to hire foreign workers this year.

Cloud RAN is emerging as central to the new wireless network architecture, which will feature a more software-centric, software-configurable RAN.

The FCC has voted to drop its requirement that Charter extend broadband service to 1 million US households already served by another ISP.

HPE completed the spinoff of its Enterprise Services business and merged it with Computer Sciences Corporation to create CDX Technology, while adjusting outlook downward to reflect the change.

After much speculation, Oracle finally threw cold water on the rumors that it was chasing Accenture.

Besides its MVNO agreement with Verizon, what role will spectrum play in Comcast's upcoming mobile launch?

Merged structure, ahead of formal merger, will build on core ONOS and CORD platforms to enable range of SDN and cloud-native use cases.

CEO John Chen claims the company already owns half the 'infotainment' software market for automobiles.

Rackspace is expanding its managed services business to include what it calls professional services for companies investing in multi-cloud infrastructures.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nokia ties up Comptel deal; Telenor's Daxcom boosts enterprise comms credentials with Mitel; Lycamobile in tax probe; Ericsson demos 5G in Indonesia.

If enterprises move to the cloud, they require less on-premises equipment, which is a problem for Cisco and its competitors. But Cisco has a plan.

Tara O'Sullivan, chief creative officer of the e-learning company Skillsoft, offers insight into how companies can improve their cultures and why both women and men must play a role.