Google Cloud drives Unilever’s sustainable sourcing; Microsoft takes a water positive dive; plus other Climate Week announcements on our radar.

Dell insists its hybrid-cloud strategy is a win; Palo Alto Networks SASE taps Microsoft; and Intel recycled 1 billion gallons of water.

“The second half of 2020 is increasingly looking like it may be worse than the first," MTN Consulting's Matt Walker said.

“Cloud is an operating model,” said Deepak Patil, SVP for cloud platforms and solutions at Dell Technologies. “It’s not a destination.”

The integration aims to simplify identity-based policy enforcement when using Palo Alto's Prisma Access and Prisma Cloud platforms.

AT&T set a 5G standalone timeline; T-Mobile tapped Dell, VMware for 5G a lab; and Google Cloud added threat detection.

The new service allows customers to apply security policies consistently, regardless of where the application is running or how the user is connected.

AT&T taps Microsoft Azure for security; Cisco boosts Microsoft's on-ramps; and Intel looks to the edge.

“We're a little bit of a best kept secret,” said Hitachi Vantara's Bobby Soni about the company's hyperconverged infrastructure products.

The combination is the first to come from a wide-ranging “cloud” agreement announced last year between the two companies.

Chronicle, the security startup that spun off and then later re-merged with Google Cloud, today rolled out a threat detection tool called Detect.

The improvements seek to address challenges faced by customers using Microsoft’s Office 365 platform.

“Microsoft realizes the world is going hybrid, multi, and they want to be the guardian of these combined estate via their own control plane," said Gartner's Sid Nag.

The roadmap will see public cloud provider deploy Intel, AMD, and Arm-based CPUs, as well as Nvidia's A100 GPUs across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

HPE generated a staggering 53.5% revenue growth during the quarter while HCI vendors including Dell and Nutanix posted declines.

Arm's Neoverse V1 seeks to provide the highest performance per thread while the updated N2 aims for the greatest scalability per watt.

VMware SD-WAN, SASE expanded at Equinix; Cisco named election disinformation as a top concern; and IT professionals shared COVID-19 woes.

“In case anyone was still in doubt, cloud is increasingly dominating the IT landscape,” Synergy’s John Dinsdale said.

The partnership dramatically expands the reach of VMware's SD-WAN and secure access service edge offering.

“Cradlepoint represents a critical segment that will become increasingly important in the 5G era and beyond,” Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm said.

The rise of highly-distributed edge data centers and 5G networks is changing the way vendors think about fiber optic technologies.

AT&T met its SDN goal; Accenture bet $3B on Cloud First expansion; and the COVID-19 crunched the cloud-native ecosystem.

The new organization will include 70,000 employees and integrate Accenture’s experience with cloud migration, infrastructure, application services, and ecosystem partners.

Extreme's Universal Platform seeks to address the needs of wildly different customers through software personas.