Take a Network Break! On this week’s analysis of tech news, we examine Facebook’s Open/R routing platform, which is now open source. We also discuss why Qualcomm has rejected Broadcom’s bid, and look at a new private cloud partnership between HPE and Rackspace.
French cloud provider OVH suffers a significant outage, AT&T keeps fighting to buy Time Warner, and an analyst shop forecasts a $3 billion market for SD-WAN.
Adobe issues a patch for lots and lots of vulnerabilities, researchers reveal a flaw in Amazon Key, Cisco announces quarterly financials, and Amazon targets sci-fi and fantasy TV.
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Show Links:
Open/R: Open routing for modern networks – Facebook
Open/R – GitHub
Open/R The joy of packet routing by Petr Lapukhov – YouTube
Qualcomm Board of Directors Unanimously Rejects Broadcom s Unsolicited Proposal – Qualcomm
Qualcomm: Broadcom s Got A Lot of Leverage, Says Instinet – Barron s
Qualcomm rejects Broadcom’s $103-billion takeover bid -Reuters
Broadcom Remains Fully Committed to Acquisition of Qualcomm – Broadcom
HPE and Rackspace Deliver Industry s First Pay-as-You-Go OpenStack Private Cloud – Rackspace
Rackspace and HPE Will Sell On-Prem Private Cloud as a Service – DataCenter Knowledge
OVH to Disassemble Container Data Centers after Epic Outage in Europe – Data Center Knowledge
OVH Outage – Octave Klaba, CEO of OVH
Gunsmoke Explains Why AT&T Is Going to the Mat for Time Warner – Bloomberg
IHS: Cisco, VMware in SD-WAN Market Two-Horse Race – SDX Central
Adobe Patches Flash Player, 56 Bugs in Reader and Acrobat – Threatpost
Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera – Wired
Cisco Reports First Quarter Earnings – MarketWired
Amazon to make multiple Lord of the Rings prequel TV series – The Register
Sci-fi is a big part of Amazon’s upcoming TV slate – Engadget
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