– Participation by the fortune 1 enterprise brings technical leadership and unprecedented scale to LFN projects across Network Management & Automation
– Koby Avital, EVP of Technology Platforms, Walmart Global Tech, joins the Governing Board as LFN Platinum member
– Community Growth signals ecosystem commitment to leverage open source for collaborative network transformation across Cloud, Enterprise and Service Provider Ecosystems.
LF Networking (LFN), the de-facto collaboration ecosystem for Open Source Networking projects, announced that Walmart has joined as a Platinum member. Walmart is the first retail member of LFN and joins 21 other global organizations as Platinum members all working to accelerate open source networking.
“We are thrilled to welcome Walmart to the LF Networking community,” saidย Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IoT, at the Linux Foundation. “As the world’s largest retailer, Walmart brings expertise across a broad swath of areas, including retail point of sale networking, enterprise IT, and hybrid cloud deployments.ย We look forward to collaborative efforts that accelerate the open source networking community.”
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“I’m excited to join the Linux Foundation Governing Board on behalf of Walmart,” saidย Koby Avital, Executive Vice President, Walmart Global Tech. “By joining LFN, Walmart has the opportunity to contribute, influence the cloud growth and better support the enterprise and service provider communities by open-sourcing innovative technologies across its retail infrastructure.”
Join the LF Networking communityย October 11-12ย forย Open Networking and Edge Summit (ONES), the industry’s premier open networking event, expanded to comprehensively cover Edge Computing, Edge Cloud & IoT. ONESย North Americaย enables collaborative development and innovation across enterprises, service providers/telcos and cloud providers to shape the future of networking and edge computing.
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