Witesand just came out of stealth today, and made a video presentation based primarily at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. Praveen Jain, a co-founder of Witesand and various other networking companies, was the main presenter and conducted various interviews with interested third parties. The company’s cloud services asset discovery, NAC,… Read More »New Network And Security Player On The Scene: Witesand
650 Group offers thoughts on the state of the global semiconductor industry. Semiconductor shortages continue to make headlines impacting almost every industry from automotive, healthcare, consumer, and into all aspects of the data center. Semiconductor shortages have their roots in 2020, with COVID-19 causing a lack of investment in new… Read More »Multi-source Solutions Strategy to Address Semiconductor Shortage Situation
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) announced the launch of OpenWiFi Release 1.0, which is a community-developed project that encompasses Access Point hardware, an open-source AP operating system, and an SDK to build cloud-native Wi-Fi Controller software for Service Providers (SPs) and Enterprises. TIP is also starting lab and field trials. … Read More »TIP OpenWiFi: Will Open Source Wi-Fi Upset the Enterprise Wi-Fi industry?
On April 21, 2021, DISH, the fourth wireless operator in the US market, and hyperscaler Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to work together, whereby DISH will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to build a cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network. The DISH/AWS announcement is important because this is the… Read More »Implications of the DISH / AWS Announcement
Each year, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company has its Atmosphere conference. This year the conference theme was “Journey to the Edge.” However, this year was also much different from previous conferences because Aruba completed the acquisition of Silver Peak last September. As a result of the acquisition, the conference… Read More »Aruba Atmosphere 2021 – “Journey to the Edge”
NVidia Announcements impact every industry, and every company in the world Today’s GTC keynote by Jensen unleashed significant enhancements across the NVidia portfolio. NVidia did an excellent job of discussing verticals and giving examples with the company, clearly positioning itself as a leader in the data center space with expertise… Read More »At NVidia GTC Keynote – Jensen UnleashES Years’ Worth of Announcements in One Session
In the keynote session of Huawei Analyst Summit 2021, there was a big focus on chip availability, both in prepared remarks and from questions fielded from the audience. Huawei Deputy Chairman, Eric Xu, as he has done in past years, answered questions from the audience. Huawei reiterated that it has… Read More »Huawei Analyst Summit 2021 Keynote Highlights
We had the opportunity to speak with an exciting Internet Service Provider (ISP) called GeoLinks today. Skyler Ditchfield, the CEO, shared his thoughts on the recent spectrum acquisition from Verizon and how it will change the company’s addressable market. We think what GeoLinks has done with this spectrum acquisition is… Read More »GeoLinks’ acquisition of 28 GHz mmWave spectrum from Verizon
Cisco’s customer event, Cisco Live (virtual), is underway, and the company made many announcements. We are emphasizing what we think are the most relevant, which include Observability capabilities, Network as a Service (NaaS), and SASE. Here is a rundown of what we learned about today. Core portfolio (includes Campus Ethernet… Read More »Cisco Live Event Features Observability, Network-as-a-Service, SASE
In the news this week, Cisco has entered an agreement to sell HashiCorp Terraform® Cloud Business alongside its own Cisco Intersight® platform. Cisco and HashiCorp are helping enterprises accelerate application innovation, including automated management and security, across hybrid clouds. The deal helps enterprises achieve a hybrid cloud operating model using… Read More »650 Group Quick Take: MULTI-Cloud Operating Models Accelerate with NEW deal between HashiCorp and Cisco
