Amdocs and Microsoft expand cloud alliance

Amdocs and Microsoft are expanding their alliance to help communication service providers (CSPs) with differentiated, cloud-based services.  Amdocs and Microsoft will collaborate across several domains, including Data and AI, NFV and virtualized networking, IoT (including eSIM) and Media. Under the collaboration, SES, a global satellite operator, will be the first to deliver virtual network services, such as SD-WAN, orchestrated and managed...

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SES operationalizes ONAP for satellite services

SES will create an open, standards-based network automation and service orchestration platform, built on Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and powered by Amdocs’ network functions virtualization (NFV) technology for scalable, automated delivery of satellite-enabled network services on Microsoft Azure. Specifically, SES is implementing ONAP with Amdocs on Microsoft Azure to extend network services and activate virtualized network functions...

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Intel ships FPGA acceleration card for HPE Gen10 servers

The new high-performance Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel FPGA PAC) D5005 is now shipping now in the HPE ProLiant DL3809 Gen10 server. The Intel FPGA PAC D5005 acceleration card, which is based on an Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA, provides high-performance inline and lookaside workload acceleration to servers based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors using the Intel Acceleration Stack, which includes acceleration libraries and development...

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NeoPhotonics posts revenue of $81.7M, adjusts for Huawei ban

NeoPhotonics reported Q2 revenue of $81.7 million, up 3% quarter-over-quarter and up 1% year-over-year. Gross margin was 19.2%, down from 19.8 % in the prior quarter. Diluted net loss per share was $0.16, up from a net loss of $0.30 per share in the prior quarter. “Q2 was a volatile quarter for NeoPhotonics and I am proud of our team and their continued focus and execution to extend our leadership position in high-speed digital optoelectronics...

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HPE acquires MapR assets for its intelligent data platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has acquired the business assets of MapR, a start-up that developed a data platform for artificial intelligence and analytics applications powered by scale-out, multi-cloud and multi-protocol file system technology. This transaction includes MapR’s technology, intellectual property, and domain expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics data management.  Financial terms were not...

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Western Digital intros data center NVMe SSDs

Western Digital unveiled two new 96-layer 3D flash NVMe SSD families for enterprise data centers The Ultrastar DC SN640 family is optimized for extreme performance for mixed-workload applications such as SQL Server, MySQL, virtual desktops, and other business-critical workloads using hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) such as VMware vSAN and Microsoft Azure Stack HCI solutions. It delivers 2x the performance in sequential writes compared to its...

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Lenovo and Intel enter multiyear alliance

Intel and Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration focused on the convergence of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). The collaboration plans to focus on three areas: Systems and solutions: bringing together Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure and Intel technologies, including Intel Xe computing architecture; Intel Optane™ DC persistent memory; Intel oneAPI programming framework; and both current and future generations...

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Toshiba intros highest-performing NAND

Toshiba Memory America launched of a new Storage Class Memory (SCM) called "XL-FLASH" that is based on its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and sits between DRAM and NAND flash. The new XL-FLASH is designed for low latency and high performance in data center and enterprise storage. Sample shipments will start in September, with mass production expected to begin in 2020. XL-FLASH will initially be deployed in an SSD format but could be expanded to memory...

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