The scaled-down push is targeted at moving OpenShift out of the data center and public cloud environments and into edge environments.

It’s part of a new product called Megaport Virtual Edge that hosts NFVs — such as Cisco SD-WAN — on Megaport’s global SDN platform.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; VMware scored a Dish 5G deal; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

AT&T presents a contradictory social justice position, Amazon Braket attempts to quell quantum computing costs, and Google has added free COVID-19 datasets.

Braket allows users to test quantum algorithms on top of simulated quantum computers running on AWS computing resources.

The cloud giant also extended its free-querying offer for all of the COVID-19 public datasets for an another year through Sept. 15, 2021.

Cisco Q4 gets hit by COVID-19, T-Mobile detailed its $40 billion network upgrade plans, and Intel unveiled its 10-nanometer transistor technology.

Intel’s chief architect Raja Koduri said the new technology could boost the performance of Intel’s 10nm processors up to 20%.

HashiCorp had planned to release the latest update later in the year, but the COVID-19 pandemic quickly changed customer needs.

The consortium will define how SASE products should behave, rather than how they should be implemented.

The vendor will increase its investment in cloud technologies, and it’s also leaning into everything-as-a-service.

Verizon is ready to hit its 5G switch, Juniper sprinkles AI across its Aps, and SASE startup Perimeter 81 a scores $40M Series B.

The third version of Akraino includes six new blueprints focusing on use cases for telecommunications, enterprise, and IoT.

“Our goal is really to disrupt and change the way networking and security are consumed,” CEO Amit Bareket said.

Black Hat looks into election security, Nutanix’s HCI lands on AWS, and Equinix expanded its data center footprint into India.

Shentel is aiming Meraki's managed wireless, switching, and routing capabilities at small to midsize business customers.

The deal expands Equinix’s data center footprint to a new country, and it’s a strategic move for the interconnection giant.

Nutanix says its hybrid cloud service costs less than VMware Cloud on AWS because of Nutanix’s license portability, and it can hibernate a customer’s entire AWS cluster when it’s

Verizon re-ups its cloud contract with Synchronoss, Dish is standing firm on its 5G plans, and Windstream picked Ciena to expand its fiber network.

The nexus of cloud, edge, 5G, and analytics is driving the move to digital and helping CIOs understand the opportunity, Gartner analyst Sid Nag said.

The vendor's stock also surged on better than expected quarterly earnings.

“This is an execution risk company right now,” Dish co-founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen said during the company's earnings call.

The security and SD-WAN vendor once again shrugged off the economic effects of COVID-19 to post double-digit revenue growth in Q2.

The launch comes just weeks after Google made a controversial hosting decision for its Istio service mesh platform.