AWS activates Africa (Cape Town) Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) activated AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region has three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones, which each comprise of one or more data centers and are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high-availability...

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Cisco SD-WAN offers tighter integration with Google Cloud

Cisco and Google Cloud are building tighter integration for enterprise customers. A new turnkey networking solution called Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud promises secure and on-demand connectivity from a customer's branch, to the edge of the cloud, through Google Cloud’s backbone, and to applications running in Google Cloud, a private data center, another cloud or a SaaS application. Google notes that the network that supports services...

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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites

SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites on Wednesday, 22-April-2020, bringing its constellation to 420 satellites in orbit. The first stage of the Falcon 9 successfully landed on the drone ship in the Atlant...

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AT&T cites impact of COVID-19, networks performing well, guidance withdrawn

Citing an approximate $600 million impact of COVID-19 on its business,  especially on advertising sales and the cancellation of live sports such as March Madness, AT&T reported Q1 2020 consolidated revenues of $42.8 billion, down from $44.8 billion in the year-ago quarter, and below market expectations. Growth in domestic wireless service revenues and strategic and managed business services revenues partially offset declines in revenues...

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Arista's Cognitive WiFi identifies Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams and Zoom

Arista Networks updated its Cognitive WiFi software to offer real-time insight into the WiFi client journey, including the health of collaboration and video applications delivering optimal WiFi experiences through analytics and proactive remediation recommendations. Arista’s WiFi foundation is based on a modern and cloud-based approach unlike traditional controller-based WiFi legacy networks with overheads. Highlights Automated visibility of WiFi...

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Xilinx posts quarterly revenue of $756 million

Xilinx announced revenues of $3.16 billion for fiscal year 2020, up 3% from the prior fiscal year. Revenues were $756 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020, up 5% from the prior quarter and down 9% year over year. GAAP net income for fiscal year 2020 was $793 million, or $3.11 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income for fiscal year 2020 was $853 million, or $3.35 per diluted share. GAAP net income for the March quarter was $162 million,...

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Ericsson sees limited impact from Covid-19, sales steady, margin rises

Ericsson reported Q11 2020 sales of SEK 49.8 billion compared with SEK 48.9 billion a year ago, representing a decline of 2% adjusted for comparable units and currency. Gross margin excluding restructuring charges improved to 40.4% (38.5%). Gross margin improved QoQ in all segments. Börje Ekholm, President and CEO of Ericsson, states: "Ericsson delivered a solid result during the first quarter, with limited impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. An...

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Seagate posts strong quarterly revenue of $2.718 billion

Seagate Technology reported quarterly revenue of $2.718 billion, up from $2.313 million a year ago. Net income (GAAP) was $320 million, compared with $195 million a year ago. “Seagate executed very well in the third quarter while navigating the unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our teams worked tirelessly to safeguard the health of their colleagues, support customer demand, and execute our product roadmap. In this challenging...

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