AI continues to be a core component of Intel's portfolio. The third-generation Xeon Scalable chips add bfloat16 support, and Intel debuted an AI-first FPGA.

"We have to realize that the metric by which IT will be measured is probably going to shift toward agility and the ability to react seamlessly," Cisco's Todd Nightingale

AT&T and T-Mobile US are set to slash thousands of jobs; VMware sparked a SASE Debate; and Cisco used technology to fight the pandemic and racism.

“As the quarter progressed, we saw a drop-off in deals, especially in the industries most affected by the pandemic,” noted Oracle CEO Safra Catz.

Cisco SD-WAN customers can now transition to the vendor's newly unveiled SASE offering with the click of a button.

While discussing SD-WAN and VMware's emerging SASE offering, COO Rajiv Ramaswami opened a can of worms on the efficacy of service chaining.

Google Cloud added a new high-performance computing tool to the therapeutics research arsenal with the beta launch of its Filestore High Scale.

SecureX integrates all of Cisco’s network, endpoint, cloud, and application security products, as well as threat intelligence from Cisco Talos, in a cloud-native platform.

In addition to the new unstructured data storage systems, Dell unveiled intelligent data software called DataIQ.

The networking vendor is set to begin offering unlimited data to its cloud customers for the lifetime of their subscriptions.

IBM bought cloud security startup Spanugo; Nokia added Broadcom 5G chips to its ReefShark portfolio; and GSMA cancelled MWC LA.

Earlier this year Nokia announced plans to use Intel and Marvell's base station chips in its ReefShark AirScale modules.

Big Blue plans to integrate Spanugo’s software into its public cloud to help meet the security and compliance needs of regulated industries like banking and health care.

Cisco paid $1 billion for ThousandEyes; Microsoft's buying spree continued with Metaswitch acquisition; and Nvidia bought Cumulus.

Cryptominers attacked Azure; Amazons custom Graviton2 chips landed in in AWS EC2; and SDxCentral's weekly wrap podcast.

Plus, AMD’s second-generation EPYC processors are available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.

While Azure Security Center has detected “multiple” attacks against Kubernetes clusters in the past, this is the first time it has seen any specifically targeting Kubeflow.

Of those surveyed, 74% reported had deployed or plan to deploy SD-WAN to secure cloud workloads.

Amazon said it wouldn't sell facial recognition to police; Nokia mellowed its 5G outlook for 2020; and Google tapped Telefónica for edge expansion.

The SD-branch capabilities will enable customers to remotely provision and manage branch deployments from a unified control center.

Coronavirus claimed 200 GSMA jobs; IBM Cloud suffered a massive outage; and Versa helped service providers get SASE.

Siemplify competes against Palo Alto Networks, IBM, Splunk, and Swimlane “but none of them have a cloud-native SOAR offering,” CMO Nimmy Reichenberg said.

Outage tracking services reported a surge in errors beginning shortly before 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

Longhorn complements Kubernetes and provides a storage overlay that virtualizes and enhances underlying storage infrastructure, said Rancher Labs CEO.