The China-based cloud giant linked the three-year investment plan to bolster support for services that have surged in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.

COVID-19 may kill the data center, or at the very least forever change storage as we know it, says Andres Rodriguez, co-founder of Nasuni.

The work is targeted at helping telecommunication operators deploy virtual network functions in support of 5G services.

The DoD report found the decision to award Microsoft the $10B JEDI cloud contract was “reasonable” and “consistent with applicable law.”

“We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for the remainder of 2020,” Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees.

“Vast Data now has a $140 million war chest that we will spend like camels, not like unicorns,” co-founder Jeff Denworth said.

Xilinx announced the Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform in September 2019 and said it will be generally available in Q4.

Awake Security displaced Cisco; Ericsson beat out 5G rivals; and Viptela CEO launched multi-cloud startup Alkira.

The deal will see Nuage pair its SD-WAN 2.0 offering with Asavie’s SD Edge platform announced last week.

The U.K. government is requiring operators to limit the use of Huawei equipment in the core of 5G networks due to security concerns.

Founded by former Viptela CEO Amir Khan and his brother Atif Khan, Alkira Cloud Services Exchange aims to eliminate the complexity of multi-cloud deployments.

Cisco paved Rakuten's virtual roaming road; VMware bolstered its hybrid cloud with Kubernetes products; and ARM joined the O-RAN alliance.

VMware continues to lead the worldwide SD-WAN market by revenue, followed by Cisco and Fortinet, according to Omdia.

IBM Cloud, Microsoft, Dell Technologies, HPE, VMware, Nutanix, Lenovo, and Supermicro platforms support the latest AMD processors.

The updates include application and infrastructure additions designed to ease operations in a Kubernetes environment and further integrate VMware’s Kubernetes properties.

Some of the new features include better public cloud cost comparisons via integration with VMware’s CloudHealth and improved VMware Cloud on AWS migration.

Palo Alto paid $420M for CloudGenix; Microsoft acquired Affirmed; AWS pledged $20 million to COVID-19 testing; plus the latest VC/M&A news from March.

The move targets the challenge of container storage by extending persistent data storage to containers running in the AWS ecosystem.

The vendor said the update assumes the demand environment continues to deteriorate through Q2 before slowly rebounding "as economies reopen and population lockdowns end.”

"Closed limited resources and ideas can never compete with something that is open to the world – and the world contributing," said Google's Kelsey Hightower.

“Closing a major funding round during these times of economic uncertainty is testament to the promise that our investors see in Cohesity,” said CEO Mohit Aron.

Browser isolation is like social distancing. But instead of protecting people from pandemics, browser isolation protects users from malicious code.

KEDA was designed to allow developers to run serverless functions within a Kubernetes environment across other clouds and on-premises locations.

VMware claimed SD-WAN victory over Cisco; HPE readied $2 billion COVID-19 relief for enterprises; and Cisco emphasized wireless-first future.