Google eyeing a D2iQ purchase | Dell, Pluribus tackled video security; and AWS narrowly escaped an Azure defeat in the annual Flexera report.

Axios reports that D2iQ would be valued north of $250 million, but less than its $775 million valuation following its Series D round.

The IoT Video Security Fabric is available and in use by a municipal government in a “major European capital city,” Pluribus’ Jay Gill said.

The annual Flexera report found that public cloud adoption continues to surge as Azure bites at AWS' heels for dominance in the enterprise market.

The software vendor claims this framework can deliver a tenfold reduction in total cost of ownership.

The managed service is designed to make it easier for users of Amazon's various AI capabilities to implement human review and improve model accuracy.

The technology translates information from packet headers, out-of-band information, and past network activity to predict and classify traffic.

Despite pandemic related challenges, Intel reported revenues of $19.8 billion for the quarter, up 23% year over year, exceeding expectations by more than $800 million.

The latest release includes what Canonical calls “kernel self-protection measures,” which target control flow integrity and includes stack-crash protection.

Edgewise Networks CEO Peter Smith discusses the rapid shift to remote work because of COVID-19 and how zero-trust security can help.

Project Astra offers a normalized application data management approach that results in the portability of data rich or stateful applications.

Dynamic Threat Analysis protects containerized applications from image-based malware by automatically running images in a secure sandboxed environment.

Anthos customers can now run Google-managed workloads inside of AWS. Azure support remains a work in progress.

IBM Cloud Data Shield is based on Fortanix’s technology that encrypts data at rest, in transit, and while in use, thus allowing general-purpose computation on encrypted data.

Cisco, Google drove SD-WAN to the cloud; Commvault sued competitors Cohesity and Rubrik; and IBM reported a hard hit from pandemic in earnings report.

The vendor's 2.0 update includes testing and infrastructure provisioning capabilities that its CEO Joe Duffy said users are calling "superpowers."

Long-time executive and short-time co-CEO Jennifer Morgan is set to leave the company on April 30. SAP tied the move to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told financial analysts that “in the last few weeks we faced a shift in client priorities toward the preservation of capital.”

The Payment Flexibility Program offers customers 0% interest financing with no down payment and up to 180-day deferrals on payments.

“The unauthorized use of our patented technology by Rubrik and Cohesity forces us to compete against our own inventions," said Commvault's Marcus Muller.

GIC and Equinix formed their first joint venture last July, also valued at more than $1 billion, to build European data centers for large cloud providers.

Customers “get no visibility from the public cloud because they treat it as a black box,” CEO Steve Mullaney said.

Google brought BeyondCorp zero-trust security to the masses; Alibaba injected $28B into the cloud; and Rackspace readied its $10B IPO.

The move would mean Rackspace’s return to the public market. The managed services company went private in 2016 in a $4.3 billion deal led by Apollo Global Management.