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News & Views Most Popular Podcast: ClearSky Data CEO Ellen Rubin Knows Where Your Data Is By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/16/2019 Ellen Rubin joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss edge computing and the new need for data management in more places as the world goes from static storage to mobile, multicloud madness. Post a Comment AT&T & IBM Strike Major Cloud, Networking Alliance By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/16/2019 AT&T Business Solutions will migrate its internal applications to the IBM Cloud. IBM, meanwhile, will use AT&T Business as its primary provider of software-defined networking. Post a Comment IBM: We Won't 'Bluewash' Red Hat By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/10/2019 IBM executives say they'd be fools to compromise Red Hat's independence, following the $34 billion acquisition that closed this week. Post a Comment Advertisement IBM Builds Telco Muscle With $34B Red Hat Acquisition By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 7/9/2019 IBM sees its combination with Red Hat as enabling a full virtualization stack to service providers, from infrastructure to OSS and everything in between. Post a Comment Colt CEO: US Customers Growing in the Cloud By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 7/8/2019 Colt CEO Carl Grivner said its business in the US – providing enterprise connectivity – is still growing thanks to continued enterprise cloud adoption. Post a Comment Edge Gravity Aims for Hyper-Scale By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/28/2019 Ericsson's distributed edge cloud unit is on a path to connect to 'multiple hundreds' of service provider partners in the coming months, new CEO Kyle Okamoto says. Post a Comment Former Verizon Exec Takes Helm of Ericsson's Edge Gravity By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/21/2019 Kyle Okamoto starts as Edge Gravity's CEO on June 24, taking over a slot previously held by Marcus Bergström. Post a Comment Advertisement VMware Banks on Data Center Agility With Avi Networks Buy By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/13/2019 VMware and Avi share multiple customers and they don't expect the combo and subsequent integration to cause much disruption as VMware aims to bring a public cloud experience to the data center. Post a Comment CSPs Driving Transformation via the Distributed Cloud By Roz Roseboro, Principal Analyst – Cloud Infrastructure & Management, Heavy Reading, 6/13/2019 The telco distributed cloud model is gaining support among service providers, even ahead of extensive 5G rollouts. Post a Comment NTT Challenges Cloud Giants By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 6/3/2019 NTT Communications needed additional flexibility and automation to compete with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Post a Comment CenturyLink's Walker: More Edges, More Efficiency By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 5/16/2019 Bill Walker explains how edge computing has allowed operators to decompose applications and distribute them on the network. Post a Comment Cisco's Happy, Despite Service Provider Decline By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Cisco's service provider business declined 13% in the third fiscal quarter, but overall revenue was up, so it was (metaphorical) high fives for everyone on Cisco's quarterly earnings call. Post a Comment Volta Bigs Up Its Cloud Router, Claims 90% Savings vs Legacy By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Volta claims that moving routing intelligence to the cloud and running white boxes can slash costs compared with legacy equipment. Post a Comment Arista Ships Smarter 400G Routers By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/14/2019 Arista's second-generation 400G routers support built-in security, automation and telemetry for reduced capex and opex. Post a Comment At Boingo, Network Cloudification Drives Business Transformation By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 Boingo is best known as the guys who get travelers online at airports, but that's just a small part of the business nowadays. Network virtualization has helped drive the transition. Post a Comment Red Hat Tackles Telco Cloud With Linux Upgrade By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/7/2019 Updated tools for hands-free operations and modern applications are designed to help operators cloudify their networks. Post a Comment Orange Taps Dell for 5G Transformation By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 5/1/2019 Orange and Dell will collaborate on a distributed cloud architecture for 5G cloud networking. Post a Comment Harmonic CEO: We Want to Be No. 1 in Cable Virtualization, DAA By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/29/2019 Harmonic sees a big year ahead for its 'CableOS' platform and distributed access architecture deployments as vendor takes aim at a cable network market that's been led by Arris, Cisco and Casa Systems. Post a Comment Rackspace Names Third CEO in Two Years By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/25/2019 Kevin Jones, who has experience in both transportation and enterprise technology, replaces Joe Eazor, who didn't last long. Post a Comment Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Telco Cloud Product Strategy (Vendor) By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/24/2019 Thirteen vendors, from Altiostar to ZTE, are helping operators apply SDN and NFV technologies to transform their networks from the core to the edge. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors AT&T & IBM Partner on Cloud, SDN Tuesday, July 16, 2019 IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Equinix-GIC Data Center JV Will Go Big in Europe Monday, July 1, 2019 VMware Deals for Avi Networks Thursday, June 13, 2019 Cisco Q3 2019: $13B Revenue Up 6% Annually, Despite Service Provider Decline Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Arista Delivers 400G Routers for Cloud Network Transformation Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Sprint Deploys Amdocs to Simplify Catalog & Operations Tuesday, May 14, 2019 SK Telecom & Microsoft Partner on Information & Communications Tech Monday, May 13, 2019 India's Vodafone Idea Taps Ericsson for Cloud Packet Core Friday, May 3, 2019 IBM Q1 2019 Revenue $18.2B Down 4.7%, but Cloud Revenue Up 10% in 12 Months Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Red Hat Rakes In $3.4B in FY2019, Up 15% Monday, March 25, 2019 ETSI MEC Group Releases Phase 2 Specs Thursday, March 21, 2019 Oracle Revenues Decline, as Cloud Sputters Thursday, March 14, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Bluetooth Devices Leaking Tracking Data Larry Loeb, Author, 7/19/2019 Researchers from Boston University found that the current version of Bluetooth ... 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7/16/2019

Podcast: ClearSky Data CEO Ellen Rubin Knows Where Your Data Is

Keeping up with data storage -- and keeping data safe -- is a more complex undertaking for companies now that most of their data is being processed in multicloud ...