Cisco pledged $225 million as IBM took charge of White House HPC group as big tech continues to battle COVID-19.

The vendor said the SASE architecture promises less complexity, shorter deployment times, improved security, and better performance at scale.

This includes $8 million in cash, $210 million in products, and up to $5 million in grants and funds matching Cisco employees’ donations to nonprofits.

The adoption is another block in CFF's path-building toward Kubernetes.

AWS pledged $20 million to COVID-19 testing; Microsoft topped cloud rankings; and Cisco donated OpenRoaming as WiFi standard.

While the AWS initiative will initially focus on COVID-19, AWS says it “will also consider other infectious disease diagnostic projects” in the future.

The report lauded those two giants for their extensive services and support, which continues to dominate smaller players like Google, IBM, Oracle, and Alibaba.

"We can now confidently say that the network is resilient, performant, secure, and ready for broad adoption," said Storj Labs CEO Ben Golub.

The company has posted a 100% year-over-year increase in revenue during the past four years, and has more than doubled its customer base each of those years.

COVID-19 postponed Google Cloud Next; SoftIron placed its bets on SONiC; and Telefónica tapped open RAN vendors.

Nutanix updated its object storage platform to bring “simplicity” and “performance” to big data and analytics applications and unstructured data management.

"Networking is the most neglected integrated thing that exists in IT right now," says SoftIron CEO Phil Straw.

The company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, are under a "shelter in place" ordinance due to the coronavirus.

Remote worker influx stifled services; Cisco, Hitachi sliced jobs; and Red Hat, Intel bridged the gap between VMs and containers.

The job cuts include nearly 400 Cisco employees and 151 Hitachi Vantara employees.

The OCP-compliant Inspur system includes Nvidia GPUs and enables composability via PCIe fabric-based, composable infrastructure from Liqid.

The work is targeted at bridging the gap between VNFs that typically run on virtual machines (VMs) and CNFs that run in containerized environments.

“Oracle inaccurately reported during its Q3 earnings call that DTCC was migrating a ‘multi-terabyte data warehouse’” from AWS to Oracle’s cloud, a DTCC spokesperson said.

The vendor has a twofold strategy to address multiple orchestration and enterprise challenges in Kubernetes as telecommunication architectures migrate into the cloud-native space.

With at least 70 SD-WAN vendors on the market, standing out from the pack can be tricky. In an effort to do so, many newer vendors are targeting SMBs.

While other tech companies have blamed COVID-19 for recent revenue declines, citing supply chain disruptions and market uncertainties, Oracle thus far seems immune.

AT&T peddled its 5G lead; AWS launched Bottlerocket Container OS; and Splunk made security hygiene sexy.

Broadcom's Tomahawk, Trident 3, and Jericho platforms are in the crosshairs of Mellanox's new ASIC.

Jeff Barr, chief evangelist for AWS, noted that it “includes only the packages that are needed” and “integrates with existing container orchestrators.” Think Kubernetes.