Cisco’s Internet for the Future is developed to address alarming digital divide gaps and playing a pivotal role in scaling Critical Infrastructure during global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, still Cisco needs to foster partnerships across businesses, governments, and institutions with strong commitments in order to move the needle in making the Internet more universally accessible.
Netcracker Enhanced Security Plan Unleashes Good Security Practices for CSPs
Netcracker’s Enhanced Security enables service providers to adopt the comprehensive security framework required to automate and adapt the E2E security best-suited for their own networks as well as fulfill their enterprise customer ironclad 5G security expectations.
Netcracker 2020 Galvanizes Service Provider Digital Transformation Renaissance
Netcracker 2020 is redesigned and upgraded to accelerate the top-priority transformation goals of CSPs including personalization of digital services, customization of B2B commerce, secure multi-cloud flexibility, agile partner management, and broader automation. Through Netcracker 2020 adoption, CSPs become firmly positioned to play a far more strategic and central role across the digital value chain. Netcracker’s rivals must take heed.
DXC’s Q4 and Fiscal 2020 Results: The Good, The Bad, and the Takeaways
DXC’s Q4 and fiscal 2020 results indicate the company is making progress righting the ship under new CEO Michael Savino, containing revenue runoff due primarily to dissatisfactory customer delivery and diminishing customer relationships before his arrival. While COVID-19 uncertainties played in a role in DXC’s decision to suspend quarterly dividends, this could also allow the company to showcase how its ITO portfolio is well-suited to enabling clients overcome COVID-19 challenges.
HAS2020: Huawei Service and Software Sees Salesforce as CSP Digital Transformation Fix
Huawei Service and Software must contend with complicated sales cycles in key markets across North America, Europe, East Asia, Oceania, and elsewhere, due to geopolitical factors, despite the built-in competitive merits of applying the Salesforce digital ecosystem blueprint to drive CSP digital transformation.
Ericsson’s USA 5G Smart Factory: 5G Supply Chain Maverick
Ericsson’s USA 5G Smart Factory is addressing the strategic goal of U.S. policymakers in assuring the long-term manufacturing and supply chain reliability of essential 5G RAN technology. As alternative Open RAN technology gains maturity and valuable deployment credentials in major operator 5G deployments, Ericsson is also well-positioned to drive and support Open RAN as the market conditions become more favorable as well as decisive from its competitive landscape perspective.
Microsoft Azure Scoops up Metaswitch in Bid to Make Azure the Meta-5G Edge Cloud
Microsoft Azure is making the solid bet that the dual acquisitions of Metaswitch and Affirmed Networks will strengthen the Azure portfolio in providing virtualized network software and voice/data/unified communications solutions aimed at operator 5G edge hybrid cloud demands, but must show its ongoing portfolio expansion will not scare off many potential CSP customers and supplier partners.
The ADTRAN SD-Access Portfolio Showcases its German and French Connections
ADTRAN’s recent string of major operator wins in Germany and France fortifies its ability to drive more operator consideration of its SD-Access portfolio, particularly in fulfilling the distinct fixed access needs of operators in Europe. ADTRAN is now better positioned to compete against Huawei, ZTE, and Nokia in the tightly contested European fixed access market.
Aexonis CemTore: Ready to Power Intelligent Enterprise IoT Innovation
Aexonis, through its CemTore IoT mediation and management portfolio, wields the sales and marketing opportunity to enable any size or type of enterprise and organization to cost effectively streamline and unify management of their own IoT network, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic crisis recedes.
HPE’s Simplivity 325 is Set to Disrupt the HCI Market
HPE’s SimpliVity 325, through compelling cost savings, scaling, and ease-of-integration differentiators and meeting surging enterprise demand for drastic acceleration of HCI applications deployment, is ready to play a key role disrupting in the HCI market during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the remainder of 2020.