As the holidays grow closer, one might expect more festive subjects like hot cocoa, in-laws, and black ice to be on the mind, but Silverlinings readers are always thinking about something else, and that’s the cloud.
This month, readers enjoyed stories about artificial intelligence, 5G, superclouds, and much more! With so much content to get through, it’s easy to lose track of the big picture, so as our gift to you, Silverlinings presents our top 10 stories from November.
10. AT&T’s Sambar wants a machine to wrangle his network algorithms
At the Brookyln 6G Summit in New York, AT&T director Chris Sambar shared the organization's concerns surrounding network automation and the launch of 5G-advanced.
9. KubeCon: What is Kubernetes’ dynamic resource allocation, and why does it matter?
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), ran a live demo of Kubernetes’ new dynamic resource allocation.
8. NTT DoCoMo doesn’t want to rip out the 5G core to move to 6G
At the Brooklyn 6G summit in New York, Takehiro Nakamura, chief standardization officer at NTT DoCoMo, told Silverlinings that a cloud-native software-driven upgrade path is essential to 5G and 6G operations.
7. Down to the wire: Broadcom, VMware megadeal doesn’t get chopped by China
New Street Research analysts note the concessions Broadcom needed to make to receive conditional approval from Chinese officials in their VMware merger.
6. Broadcom-VMware merger will hatch a new ‘supercloud’
Muddu Sudhakar, co-founder and CEO of Aisera, a VMware business partner, explained how Broadcom’s VMware acquisition could bring competition to the hyperscale cloud market.
5. Red Hat debuts edge platform for vast device networks
Red Hat introduces an edge computing platform for resource-constrained devices designed to use the same tools and processes as used in centralized environments.
4. Cloud9: Lunch Ladies News Wrap – Microsoft goes big into AI
Senior Reporter Dan Jones joins Silverlinings’ Lunch Ladies to share some insight into the AI Microsoft showed off at the Ignite event.
3. Exclusive: Google Cloud CTO talks tech, failures and what the future holds
Google Cloud CTO Will Grannis sits down with executive editor Diana Goovaerts for an exclusive interview to discuss how failure contributes to Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO.
2. Broadcom missed VMware deal deadline, waits for Chinese approval
Bola Rotibi, chief of enterprise research at CSS Insight, breaks down the factors that may have contributed to the delayed VMware acquisition.
1. Broadcom-VMware deal hangs in the balance
With the November 26th deadline approaching Broadcom risks owing VMware a $1.5B termination fee as Chinese regulators delay VMware acquisition.