Geng Lin, Google CTO of corporate networks. That's a pic of a Google data center on the slide behind him. Look close and you'll see your Gmail inbox.
Google: Carriers & Cloud Providers Need to Cooperate
Cato says simple SD-WAN doesn't cut it anymore for enterprise customers, who need SD-WAN combined with security, mobile and cloud connectivity, delivered over the cloud. It's all about a new industry buzzword: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).
Cisco is fundamentally changing its business strategy to support selling disaggregated components, in addition to integrated solutions, in a bid to win business from hyperclouds such as Amazon and Microsoft.
Cisco's collaboration boss Amy Chang sits down with Light Reading's Mitch Wagner to share stories about videoconferencing facepalm moments and discuss Cisco's collaboration vision in this mini-episode of the Light Reading podcast.
We're packing our bags for Dallas, for our cleverly named Network Virtualization and SDN Americas conference, but first we sat down to talk about NV, SDN and our favorite travel snack.
Will Apple's new iPhone 11 grow telco profits? Will Apple TV+ compete in a crowded OTT market? And why does everybody have fabulous hair in an Apple TV+ series where civilization has collapsed because everybody in the world is blind?
Maybe cloud and service providers don't have a functional relationship anymore. Rather, it may be more disfunctional than we had previously thought.
Someone is going to have to be the "adult".
The challenge is when that same infrastructure wants to be connected to 3rd parties. If there are a small set of well defined partners it can be solved. The bigger the number of 3rd parties the worse it is.
Which leads us to the problem is really when cloud folks and carriers have B2C services.
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We won't hold our breath!