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News & Views Most Popular HPE's 'Spaceborne' Computer Gets Down to Business in Earth Orbit By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/1/2018 The International Space Station's onboard computer will start chewing on real scientific data, after a year running test suites and benchmarks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Chinese Hardware Hack Threatens US Tech Supply Chain – Bloomberg By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/4/2018 Thirty companies, including Amazon and Apple, and the US government are threatened in the attack, according to a bombshell investigative report from Bloomberg. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: brooks7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwXEQYW0RSQ Some more follow-up on... Intel Pivots to Data-Centric Future By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/13/2018 Can Intel reinvent itself for the post-PC future? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Kontron Scoops Up Open Source Software Provider Inocybe By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/1/2018 Kontron will combine its white box hardware with Inocybe's open source software, including its open source SDN controller and other software. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Kontron Uses Open Source to Move Beyond Bare Metal By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 7/16/2018 Company known for embedded computer technology vendor now serves as integrator as well, combining its hardware with OpenStack and VNFs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) No Customer Downside in Dell's Wall Street Return By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/2/2018 Dell is swapping its own stock for VMWare's tracking stock and returning to the public market with a $21.7 billion valuation. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym Whether the stated purpose o the move that "simplifies Dell Technologies' capital... India's Reliance Industries Snaps Up Radisys By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 7/2/2018 Reliance Jio, Reliance Industries' disruptive 4G operator, will get its own in-house telco cloud vendor. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Telefónica, Vodafone Issue OpenRAN RFIs By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 6/26/2018 TIP Summit's OpenRAN project group produces first set of vendor requirements, looking to identify who's coming to the table. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: jerehada Makes some sense assuming peformance comparable but what's in it for vendor... Intel CEO Resigns After Employee Relationship Revealed By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 6/21/2018 Intel's CFO, Bob Swain, will take on the interim CEO role. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli @kq4ym: Fair point that correlation does not equal causation. It's worth noting,... LF Networking Gets Ambitious About Open Harmonization By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/27/2018 Expansion into AI, network operating systems for white box and edge computing are built into efforts to collaborate more across industry groups. Post a Comment \| Read (0) AT&T's Anschutz: ONF Shift Is More About Culture Than Technology By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/27/2018 AT&T exec encourages ONF Vision Summit attendees to focus on changing the process and making operators more responsible for what happens. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Competition Heats Up for SDN/NFV Processing By Simon Stanley, 2/16/2018 The shift to application and network virtualization by operators and CSPs requires a new generation of multicore processors that are being introduced by many vendors. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Simon_Stanley The ARM architcture is now widely supported and there is a good range of ARMv8... AT&T's Rice: White Box OS a Team Effort By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 2/2/2018 New open source group may not be as dependent on AT&T-produced code, says top exec. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Intel Shrugs Off Spectre Worries in Q4 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 1/26/2018 Revenue for Q4 2017 was up 4% at $17.05 billion. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli The funny thing is that this is such a widespread and severe problem that it's,... DT Preps CORD Effort to Slash FTTB/H Costs By Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/16/2017 German operator's Access 4.0 project, if approved, could help it to reduce the expense of building higher-speed fiber networks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Ericsson Gets Shipshape on Pre-5G By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 9/29/2017 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: MTS forced to suspend service in Turkmenistan; Vonage has new base in UK; Huawei helps Viva Bahrain on hybrid core. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 5G Volume Knob Cranked to 11 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/13/2017 That's one louder than ten, folks, as the likes of Telefónica, Nokia, Qualcomm, KDDI, Ericsson, LG U+, Huawei, Mavenir, Intel, Keysight, Cavium and more serve up a slew of 5G announcements. Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: DanJones In the US? 2018-19 for fixed. Late 2019 and beyond for mobile. Some... Radisys's SI Strategy Comes Into Focus By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/11/2017 Vendor has been positioning itself as a key integrator in the telco infrastructure space as data centers move to the edge. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Intel CEO Leaves Trump Biz Advisory Board By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/15/2017 Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had stood with Trump on high-profile initiatives, but left an executive board of business advisors after the President's slow response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Post a Comment \| Read (17 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym It could well be explained by jumping on the bandwagon as others depart or... 'New' Kontron Emerges With $1B Sales Target By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 6/30/2017 Following a difficult year, embedded computing system specialist has agreed a merger with S&T Deutschland, giving it an expanded portfolio and a role in hitting an annual sales target of $1 billion. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards ChristopherJames, 10/16/2018 12:23:02 AM Avere Raises $20M for Hybrid Cloud Storage R&D Re: hi I think that it would be very interesting to see where some of these research findings will bring us. I imagine that there is a lot of potential in the cloud systems because of how it's associated with the future IoT systems.... brooks7, 10/8/2018 5:50:32 PM Chinese Hardware Hack Threatens US Tech Supply Chain – Bloomberg Re: Re: Apple, Amazon & Chinese denials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwXEQYW0RSQ Some more follow-up on this. seven Mitch Wagner, 10/5/2018 1:32:21 PM Chinese Hardware Hack Threatens US Tech Supply Chain – Bloomberg Re: Apple, Amazon & Chinese denials Apple and Amazon's denials, in response to the Bloomberg article, are unusually vehement and specific. Apple: Over the course of the past year, Bloomberg has contacted us multiple times with claims, sometimes vague and... kq4ym, 7/16/2018 8:14:44 AM No Customer Downside in Dell's Wall Street Return Re: Re: Good Whether the stated purpose o the move that "simplifies Dell Technologies' capital and ownership structure," will benefit them in the long run remains to be seen of course, but the investors were surely happy to see the 8+... Joe Stanganelli, 7/9/2018 8:22:50 PM Intel CEO Resigns After Employee Relationship Revealed Re: Re: Corrections @kq4ym: Fair point that correlation does not equal causation. It's worth noting, however, that we're talking more than 1.5%; Intel's stock continued a general slide for about week.Since then, it has been on the upswing and... kq4ym, 7/9/2018 8:09:47 AM Intel CEO Resigns After Employee Relationship Revealed Re: Re: Corrections It would be difficult to find is the news resulted in the stock movement, most likely it was just a normal blip in the often randomness of such things. Whether that or the myriad of other bits of the company will affect... Michelle, 7/4/2018 2:23:18 PM No Customer Downside in Dell's Wall Street Return Re: Re: Good Ahh, it doesn't seem to be common for high profile companies. Thanks Gabriel Brown, 7/3/2018 3:21:39 AM Reliance Industries to Acquire Radisys Re: Re: Reliance to acquire Radisys They're quite different types of companies. Radisys offers software stacks and R&D services. Radcom is more of product and solution company (albeit in software). So I'm not sure there's a direct comparison. Mitch Wagner, 7/2/2018 11:34:32 PM No Customer Downside in Dell's Wall Street Return Re: Re: Good I expect it's pretty rare. I can't think of another example though I am sure it has happened. Michelle, 7/2/2018 7:25:05 PM No Customer Downside in Dell's Wall Street Return Re: Good Is it common for a company to go public, revert back to private, then return to the market? I have only seen coverage of Dell doing this. At least the result has been good this time around. microcaptechinvestor, 7/2/2018 2:27:55 PM Reliance Industries to Acquire Radisys Re: Re: Reliance to acquire Radisys The same reason AT&T should acquire RADCOM (RDCM). Works seamlessly with ONAP and OSM. Control the battle field and become a supplier of software to other CSPs. Use vProbes to run new analytics business. Plus you avoid spending... Gabriel Brown, 7/2/2018 10:22:35 AM Reliance Industries to Acquire Radisys Re: Reliance to acquire Radisys Didn't see that coming. My twitter 'hot take' Didn't see that coming. I guess the logic is two-fold: Jio can better "roll its own" and can better monetize it's innovation via the Radisys sales channel https://twitter.c... jerehada, 6/29/2018 2:47:52 AM Telefónica, Vodafone Issue OpenRAN RFIs Re: vendors Makes some sense assuming peformance comparable but what's in it for vendors? Joe Stanganelli, 6/24/2018 10:46:12 PM Intel CEO Resigns After Employee Relationship Revealed Re: Corrections Down less than 1.5% doesn't sound too bad -- and I suspect an upward correction will happen soon (provided no surprises in Swain's interim oversight and the new CEO selection). That upward correction could even skew higher... Simon_Stanley, 2/23/2018 12:55:16 PM Competition Heats Up for SDN/NFV Processing Re: Re: Project Denver becomes Ampere The ARM architcture is now widely supported and there is a good range of ARMv8 based processors with different integration and performance options that are very competitive on paper with Intel processors. The introduction... 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