Palo Alto paid $420 million for CloudGenix; Microsoft fumbled COVID-19 cloud statistic; and Cisco scored an SD-WAN win With NTT East.

CloudGenix will form the second pillar of Palo Alto's emerging secure access service edge offering, which it announced last fall.

The reported 775% increase in cloud usage in areas operating under enforced social distancing or shelter-in-place orders was not as specific as it should have been.

Lenovo also rolled out new NVMe storage systems that integrate with AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM public clouds for hybrid cloud storage.

The application performance monitoring service launches less than a year after the company acquired SignalFx and Omnition.

Microsoft cloud usage has spiked 775%; Google gifted $800 million to slow the spread of COVID-19; and security experts continue to battle COVID-19 cyberattacks.

IDC predicts server market revenues will decline 3.4% year over year to $88.6 billion in 2020 while external enterprise storage will slide 5.5%.

The company said the increase was in areas operating under enforced social distancing or shelter-in-place orders.

The cloud giant is also working with Magid Glove & Safety to ramp up production of 2 million to 3 million face masks in the coming weeks.

VMware withdrew FY21 guidance citing coronavirus concerns; Kubernetes 1.18 ramped up Windows support; and NS1 CISO dished on disaster recovery.

In China’s case, being bigger than the rest plays to its advantage in positioning three Chinese firms in the top six ranking of regional cloud providers.

Kubernetes 1.18 features 38 “enhancements” that include a “kubectl debug” command, improved support for Windows, and multiple extensions to the CSI.

Microsoft sunk its teeth deeper in 5G with Affirmed acquisition; Cisco Networking learned lessons during COVID-19; and Huawei boosted its R&D budget.

The deal adds a virtual evolved packet core element to Microsoft's already established cloud-based 5G moves.

Now that all Cisco employees work remotely, it sees more than 170,000 remote network connections daily across 96 countries and 498 cities.

Tier-1 operators backed new TIP specifications; Juniper VP shared security strategy to make networks threat-aware; and MWC refunded attendees.

The transponder, which is developed by Deutsche Telekom, NTT, Telefónica, Telia, and Vodafone, is designed to meet the needs of metro, core, and data center interconnect applications.

Both firms’ market reports echo similar findings of vendors spending billions to build or expand data centers to offer more cloud infrastructure services.

Release 16 and Release 17 have both been pushed back three months, despite claims from leadership earlier this month that the original deadlines would be met.

Samantha Madrid joined the company with a very specific security strategy: change how we secure networks by making the network itself threat aware.

“Ultimately, each cloud can’t hide from public, open-source benchmarks,” said Cockroach Labs' Andy Woods.

Intel warned of financial hit; Attackers exploited remote-code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft bug; and Akamai got SASE.

The platform is based on the Knative project, which continues to be a lightning rod of controversy in the serverless ecosystem.

The vendor today added secure web gateways to its security platform as it moves toward a SASE architecture for delivering security at the edge.