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VMware, M1 new cloud offering targets digital start-ups and SMEs Singaporean communications company M1 Limited and software and services provider VMware announced a new cloud offering Tuesday made for digital start-ups, and small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs). According to the companies, the service will enable budding tech...

What are security holes? Applying patches to operating systems is pivotal to network security. A software vulnerability is typically a security hole discovered in an operating system or software program, which hackers target with a specific code clothed as malware. In the interest of taking...

ETSI Open Source rolls out Open Source MANO THREE ETSI Open Source MANO (ETSI OSM) group announced the general availability of Open Source MANO (OSM) THREE yesterday, keeping up to pace with the organization’s goal to release a new OSM every six months. ETSI is the...

Industry leaders demonstrate LSO integration points Colt Technology Services, alongside technology partners AT&T, Orange, Ciena, Amdocs and Fujitsu, recently demonstrated a number of MEF Forum Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) integration points, providing a consistent experience in network provisioning, regardless of where customers want services delivered....

Versa expands SD-Branch with unified communications services Versa Networks, a vendor in the SD-WAN market, unveiled additions to its Versa Cloud IP Platform today, including embedded voice and video codec support to provide native mean opinion score (MOS)-based traffic engineering and reporting for unified communications...

Amdocs launches new intercarrier service orchestration tool Amdocs, a software and services provider to communications and media companies, rolled out a new intercarrier service orchestration solution, which enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to automate traffic scaling across multiple carrier networks. The offering addresses issues CPS's face...

New report finds lack of cyber skills is increasing data security threats An acute shortage of security analysis, investigation skills, application security skills and cloud computing security skills is inflaming the number of data breaches, according to a recent report titled ‘The Life and Times...

Smartphones are responsible for the majority of mobile network infections, and most infected smartphones are running Android applications, according to Nokia. The company tracks ransomware through its threat intelligence lab and has used the data gathered to develop new software to fight ransomware. Nokia...

CNCF offers Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which supports container management platforms like Kubernetes and Prometheus, premiered its Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program today, which the foundation said ensures Certified Kubernetes products are consisted and portable. As part of...

Verizon makes SD-WAN solution available on a wholesale basis Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS), announced it is making its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution available to wholesale customers to better control operational costs and boost bandwidth efficiency. SD-WAN is already offered by several service providers. According...

Google researcher finds 14 Linux USB subsystem security vulnerabilities Google researcher Andrey Konovalov recently discovered 14 Linux USB subsystem security vulnerabilities, all of which can be triggered by a “crafted malicious USB device in case an attacker has physical access to the machine.” Konovalov found the...

How service assurance investments are changing the game As service providers worldwide engage with a new set of competitors, face a challenging economy and attempt to master intensifying network and service complexity, they face service assurance challenges beyond any that most have ever experienced. What...

Prometheus project rolls out latest version of container management platform The open source Prometheus project debuted the latest version of its container management platform, version 2.0. The new version includes an independent time series database, improved performance, consistent query latency, staleness handling, built-in support for...

HPE debuts OneView 4.0 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently announced it has updated its OneView software, version 4.0, with a focus on streamlining data center management and operations, and simplifying hybrid IT. In addition, the company debuted a string of new cloud management partners that...

Orange pushes NFV deployment with Red Hat deal Red Hat announced Wednesday it is partnering with Orange, a major multinational telecom operator, to help the company virtualize its networks. In particular, Orange said it will use Red Hat’s OpenStack Platform to deploy virtual network functions...

Radisys and Mavenir integrate vEPC into M-CORD as part of partnership Wireless network company Radisys Corporation alongside software-based telecom networking provider Mavenir announced they are collaborating to offer communication service providers a way to commercially launch a M-CORD (Mobile Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter)...

Salesforce and Google partnership focuses on G Suite and Google Cloud Salesforce and Google announced Monday they are bolstering their partnership to enable a more collaborate experience for its customers across Google Cloud and Analytics. The announcement confirmed speculations from earlier this year that the...

Introduction Application program interfaces (APIs) are becoming a major part of the internet. Although the technology has been around for years, the API market has witnessed explosive growth in recent memory. According to an IDC survey of IT and business professionals sponsored by Axway, 47%...

Gemalto targets enterprise sector with on-demand security platform Gemalto, an international digital security company based in Amsterdam, announced the deployment of SafeNet Data Protection On Demand, a new security-as-a-service platform that integrates with IT systems, DevOps tools and cloud services. Gemalto described SafeNet Data Protection On...

Red Hat debuts newest version of OpenStack Red Hat unveiled OpenStack Platform 12, the latest version of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), at the OpenStack Summit Sydney 2017. As part of the update, Red Hat, in addition to fixing glitches, is beginning to move all of...

Synopsys announces intent to acquire Black Duck Software Synopsys has announced it intends to acquire Black Duck Software for approximately $565 million, or $548 million net cash. According to a company press release, the transaction will be funded by U.S. cash, is subject to Hart...

Juniper integrates Contrail Cloud into Red Hat OpenStack Platform Juniper Networks, an American multinational corporation for networking products, announced updates to its Contrail Cloud Platform, a turnkey cloud management platform that automates and orchestrates compute, storage and networking resources to create scalable clouds. As part...

Telefonica Chile chooses Ericsson to complete virtualization of core network Telefonica, the biggest mobile network operator and internet service provider in Chile, announced it has chosen Ericsson to finish the virtualization of the operator’s core network. Telefonica said completely virtualizing its core network will help the...

Stronger than expected cloud demand compels Microsoft to triple Azure presence in China Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently announced during the Microsoft Tech Summit 2017 in Beijing the company intends to triple its Azure presence in China over the next six months to meet stronger-than-expected demand...