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With enterprise investing more in cloud, big data and mobile, it's driving a greater need for SD-WAN, and creating a major market that is only now starting to grow.

Synergy Research's latest look at the global cloud market finds that AWS is about three times larger than its next closest rival.

HPE CEO Meg Whitman says she's staying at the company and will not be the CEO of Uber.

If maintenance and operations require fewer workers, where do all those workers go?

A study conducted by Stratoscale finds that the main obstacles to cloud include vendor lock-in, as well as security, especially with public IaaS.

With 42% year-over-year growth, AWS is the fastest-growing part of Amazon's business.

Brings the total to $120 million for the SDN specialist.

Mitel's $530 million acquisition of ShoreTel puts the emphasis on shifting UC to the cloud as a way to compete against more nimble players such as Slack.

The 86-year-old insurer faces competition from online upstarts, and has had to learn to innovate.

With customers looking for a much more personalized service, the latest update to Salesforce's Service Cloud allows enterprises to quickly give their consumers this added layer of attention.

As its own company, Cloudify will focus on management and orchestration of cloud apps, as well as NFV.

F5's Q3 was marred by macroeconomic issues, but the bigger looming issue is still the cloud.

Enterprise container support in Azure hits Google Cloud Platform close to home.

HPE CEO Meg Whitman is being considered for the top job at Uber, according to Bloomberg.

A report from Couchbase finds that IT leaders and CIOs are worried about their business being left behind in the move to digital transformation.

The networking vendor is doing well in quarterly earnings, driven by cloud growth.

Vendor posted third straight quarter of solid growth, but attributes that mostly to cloud vertical.

New managed services bundles address enterprise demand for managing traffic over combination of private MPLS services and SD-WANs.

A Google competition pits machine learning attackers against machine learning defenders to strengthen security.

Microsoft continues to place big bets on AI, and now Redmond is planning on building its own artificial intelligence chip for HoloLens.

Google claims its drive to diversify beyond ad revenue is paying off, although its Q2 earnings didn't include specifics about growth in cloud or machine learning.

CTO says mobile operators are uniquely positioned to deliver the distributed cloud computing power next-gen apps will require.

Microsoft is about to release its Azure Stack, which can help enterprises create hybrid clouds. However, the technology is not for everyone.

While DevOps remains a relatively new feature of the enterprise, security is one concept everyone can agree on. Now, many IT leaders are trying to combine the two.

The International Trade Commission has ruled that a ban against Arista's networking switches will stay in place for now.

Amazon Web Services is reportedly considering using Google-backed Kubernetes for container orchestration management, although no firm decision has been made yet.

Robust cloud growth, especially within Azure, helps Microsoft close out its fiscal 2017 on a high note.

Google is planning to use the same congestion control algorithm it uses with search and YouTube to give the company's cloud platform a speed boost.

The once secretive Apple is now publishing its machine learning research on a new website.

Juniper has picked Google's Bikash Koley to replace the company's co-founder Pradeep Sindhu, who stepped down at CTO earlier this year.

Additional updates to the Oracle Cloud at Customer look to bring the company's hybrid cloud offerings into customer's data centers.

Veritas is introducing a suite of services for data management, backup, compliance and more, across the cloud and on premises.

IBM continues to grow its cloud business, but these investments could not stop Big Blue's revenue decline in the second quarter of 2017.

Rackspace is teaming up with Pivotal to reach developers who are creating cloud-native applications.

In the era of cloud, it's more than eating your own dog food. For Wendy Pfeiffer, the CIO of Nutanix, the challenges of running the infrastructure of a cloud provider requires a more elegant approach.

While commodity servers are great for scaling out, they don't scale up. TidalScale is looking to fix that.

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Now that Cisco is jumping into intent-based networking, IT leaders need to understand the technology to take advantage of it. Here's a primer.

IBM's new z14 mainframe emphasizes cloud and encryption.

Gartner and IDC released separate reports that show IT spending increasing in the second half of 2017. Cloud is one of the main drivers.

Cisco is adding an additional layer of intelligence to the network with its acquisition of Observable Networks, which specializes in security.

A 'hefty services component,' competition for AI talent and slender returns on investment are obstacles for IBM's AI initiatives, according to a note from Jefferies.

The Microsoft Research AI lab looks to tackle some of the bigger problems with artificial intelligence that Google is already working on.

IBM is looking to Watson to help enterprises streamline IT operations.

Startups will get access to Google funding and expertise for building AI.

Salesforce is updating its Field Service Lightning offering with its Einstein AI technology to help better track and monitor technicians and other assets in the field throughout the day.

Kubernetes-based Google Container Engine is adding security, scalability, extensibility and hybrid networking features for enterprise and developer appeal.

New management tools for the Unified Computing System server are designed to let users get a better handle on projected cloud costs.

Red Hat continues to move its developer tools toward containers, including Kubernetes, with a new release of its OpenShift Online platform.

AT&T kept getting asked if NetBond included Oracle. Not any more.

The companies create a strategic partnership that will bring Telia Carrier's network to every EdgeConneX site.

Buoyant builds the open source Linkerd project, providing an infrastructure for communications between cloud-native applications.

The acquisition enhances HyTrust's cloud security portfolio, adding data visibility to the vendor's existing virtual machine capabilities.

With help from Lenovo, HPE and Dell EMC, Microsoft is moving its Azure Stack to availability.

CIOs are always worried about hiring the right talent. However, there are plenty of talented employees already on staff. It's only a matter of spotting them.

HPE is using its Cloud28 channel program to expand its reach into the cloud, and is now partnering with Microsoft to increase the use of the software giant's Azure Stack platform.

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Kirill Tatarinov lasted 18 months, but he's now out, with David Henshall becoming Citrix's fourth CEO in two years.

Longtime Microsoft vet Kurt DelBene is taking the reins from Jim DuBois, following the layoff of thousands of salespeople as part of Microsoft's cloud strategy.

Cisco's vision of fully automated networks is a necessary step, but it's a bold one, and the vendor may have a tough time bringing customers along.

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Cisco wins this round: Arista has stopped importing switches to the US for now.

The company is reportedly chopping 3,000 heads in sales, mostly in Europe, as cloud takes up more of its business.

Arista's years-long fight with Cisco over patent infringement took another turn this week as the company announced it would not import some of switching products into the US to comply with an ITC ruling.

He's secretly figured out how to do his full-time, 40-hour job in one to two hours per week, and wants to know if he's cheating his employer.

Intel is reportedly cutting about 140 IoT jobs after canceling several projects earlier this year.

Open source is appealing but it's a lot of work.

Stepan Pachikov sees the cloud note-taking app he created as a step in the direction of uploading all our memories to AI.

A new study from 451 Research finds that serverless computing can save enterprises more money than virtual machines and containers.

Colt's sales director for enterprise, James Kershaw, sheds some light on the services currently in demand and how network upgrades are influencing customer demand.

A Microsoft reorg puts intensified priority on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, according to a report.

GlaxoSmithKline recently signed a deal with AI startup Exscientia to see if artificial intelligence can make drug discovery more efficient.

Mirko Voltolini, VP of technology and architecture at Colt, talks about how SDN and NFV have impacted network operations and service development.

The virtual ADC vendor gets an official reseller deal with Cisco's NFV platform while also riding alongside the Tetration and ACI systems.