Will Townsend, Patrick Moorhead

I have followed many networking infrastructure providers throughout the pandemic. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been one of the standouts from my perspective based on its willingness to extend credit facilities and offer its solutions as a service for operating expense flexibility. Recently, the Aruba division commissioned a survey that polled IT decision-makers across the globe on several critical issues, including their its likely response to Covid-19. …

HPE Aruba Finds Its Covid-19 Silver Linings In The Clouds And Beyond Read More »

I have been following Marvell for quite some time now and as our principal Patrick Moorhead expressed earlier today, the company “is on a roll.” This year, I provided my insights into an announcement that spanned its 5G solution set and significant wins with Samsung and Nokia. If interested, you can find that article here. This week, …

Marvell Delivers Switching With An IQ At Scale Which Is Likely Bad News For Broadcom Read More »

This week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its acquisition of Silver Peak. I would like to provide my take on the nearly $1B purchase and what it means for HPE, Aruba and the company’s SD-WAN journey.     Why Silver Peak? By most accounts, privately-held Silver Peak is considered a leader in the SD-WAN space. It is a …

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There has been much discussion lately on the subject of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN). Open RAN promises to bring disruption to operators in the form of lower capital expense, accomplished by the disaggregation of general-purpose hardware and software for base station deployment. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) took a crucial step in February of this …

Deconstructing The Real Impact Of Open RAN Read More »

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) held the digital version of its Discover event this week. Similar to the Atmosphere virtual event, held last week by HPE’s Aruba division, the “Intelligent Edge” was a core theme (see my coverage of the Aruba event here, if interested). Today I would like to share my edge and telco-related insights from Discover …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sharpens Its Edge At Discover 2020 Read More »

I attended the first ever virtual Cisco Live! event this week from the comfort of my home, as did many of the Cisco executives that presented. Before COVID-19 hit in full force, I traveled the world to attend enterprise networking and mobility conferences. It has definitely been a dramatic change—I miss the personal interactions with attendees as …

Cisco Live! 2020 Goes Digital To Address COVID-19 And Inclusivity Read More »

HPE Aruba held the digital version of its signature Atmosphere event this week. In an enlightened move, the company decided to have comedian and talk show host James Corden perform master of ceremonies duties, starting the event with some much-needed comic relief amid the coronavirus pandemic and recent social unrest. Not surprisingly, the “Intelligent Edge” …

HPE Aruba Delivers A Networking Sixth Sense With Its ESP Platform Read More »

There has been quite a lot of activity lately tied to the public cloud provider push into the telco space. Amazon Web Services launched its Wavelength initiative at the last re:Invent event in December to help operators “supercharge” 5G networks by placing compute and storage resources closer to the network edge. Google Cloud recently announced …

Microsoft’s One-Two 5G Telco Punch Read More »

It has been almost a year since IBM closed its acquisition of Red Hat. I was initially skeptical of the announcement in the fall of 2018. Red Hat has been nimble and quick, disrupting the telco space with its Enterprise Linux, OpenStack, OpenShift, Cloudforms, and other open source platforms. I worried that Big Blue’s culture …

IBM’s Telco Cloud And Network Edge Journey Read More »

COVID-19 continues to shock global markets, affecting nearly every sector of the U.S. economy. It has exposed a weakness in business continuity plans—organizations of all sizes are scrambling to support work from home. The need for reliable and secure collaboration is paramount. Last week I wrote about the efforts by networking infrastructure and service providers …

Networking Providers Inject Needed Liquidity Into The COVID-19 Fight Read More »

This week Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a set of initiatives aimed at simplifying operator deployments of 5G, including a new platform initiative, enhanced standards and tools, and open source collaboration. I recently spent time with executives from the company’s telecommunications division. I would like to share my insights into what I found to be …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Aims To Deliver 5G Simplification Read More »