Acacia, Cisco Trade Claims in Merger Fight
A dispute over Chinese regulatory approval of its acquisition of Acacia Communications Inc. prompted Cisco Systems to seek a court order compelling the optical component maker to move ahead ...Full Article
VMware and Nutanix Battle It Out Over New Executive Hiring
When hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix announced the hiring of Rajiv Ramaswami as its new CEO on Dec. 9, the company had found a successor to company co-founder and CEO ...Full Article
Nvidia Probes Accelerators, Photons, GPU Scaling
Nvidia spotlighted an AI inference accelerator, emerging optical interconnects and a new programming framework designed to scale GPU performance during this week’s GTC China virtual event. In a keynote, ...Full Article
Amazon and BP Expanding Their Year-Old Deal for Renewable Energy and AWS Cloud Services
For the last year, Amazon Web Services and BP have been working together as partners, with AWS providing BP with services to migrate more than 400 applications to the ...Full Article
Juniper Networks Gains New Automation Tools in Apstra Deal
Juniper Networks acquisition of intent-based networking specialist Apstra this week gives it another set of tools for applying AI to automate network functions in evolving data centers and cloud ...Full Article
DoD Spending Bill for 2021 Seeks to Create New National Cybersecurity Czar
Funding for the creation of a new national cybersecurity director post within the Executive Office of the President is a key part of the latest spending authorization bill for ...Full Article
Nutanix Adds Object Storage to Hybrid Cloud
Nutanix introduced a series of upgrades this week that include cloud tiering of object storage, promoted as a way of leveraging public cloud infrastructure while improving data management across ...Full Article
Lenovo Targets Edge Analytics with Data Management Package, New All-Flash Array
Lenovo’s Data Center Group seeks to unify data from edge to cloud via new data management software, an all-flash storage array that supports object storage as well as AI-driven ...Full Article
Survey: Kubernetes Deployments Can Be Hard to Navigate
A vendor survey of early Kubernetes adopters embracing cloud-native applications finds that high-maintenance microservices and API sprawl have created a new set of security and networking issues for some ...Full Article
Cloud Effort Looks to ‘Turbocharge’ Telecom Networks
The convergence of cloud computing and high-bandwidth telecommunication networks has spawned an industry group to begin forging best practices for using cloud-native frameworks in telecom while defining cloud-native network ...Full Article
