Amazon, Apple convened for COVID-19 response at White House; Microsoft defeated Necurs Botnet; and Hitachi Vantara skimmed Containership’s assets.

And some agreed that despite the SD-WAN's advantages, MPLS wasn't going anywhere.

HPE buys Scytale, embraces open source security; Intel ditches Nervana, high on Habana; plus the latest VC/M&A news from February.

Containership sank last fall after failing to monetize its Kubernetes distribution.

Cisco dreamed of 5G WAN; VMware's modern application strategy spun Kubernetes Goldilocks tale; and HPE’s 5G core went cloud native.

The vendor has a unique opportunity to help make the code-to-cloud space incredibly efficient, simple, and cost effective, according to Docker Inc.'s Justin Graham.

Tofino’s P4 programmability is what makes it important to Stateless, a startup targeting colocation providers and enterprises customers with its interconnection platform.

The vendor added native Kubernetes support to its Cloud Foundation software stack and products to its Kubernetes-focused Tanzu portfolio.

Coronavirus cancelled Dell and other events; Cisco won big in Telia SD-WAN deal; and HPE delivered on Container Platform promise.

All three of those vendors have shifted planned events from a physical setting to a virtual one in light of health concerns tied to the virus.

Tom Phelan, a fellow for big data and storage organization at HPE, said the container platform’s bare-metal deployment capability is a “differentiator.”

“Confidential computing is one of the most important and relevant new paradigms that you folks will hear in the near future,” said Intel’s Anil Rao.

SONiC is now supported on Juniper’s QFX5210 single ASIC platform, including support for leaf and spine deployments in data centers.

Google Cloud has created the Global Mobile Edge Cloud, an open cloud platform for it and network operators to jointly develop applications and a distributed edge.

SAP revamped org structure, exited 2 board members; Intel slashed jobs despite record quarter; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Continued job losses at one of the world’s largest network operators underlines the impact software is having on those who earn a paycheck from the industry at large.

Cumulus added open source network automation; Telefónica to lead yet another edge alliance; and Oracle cloud gained Ampere chip.

Results from CNCF's annual survey indicate growing ubiquity of the use of cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, service mesh, and serverless.

It uses Ansible for automation, and it helps companies deploy networks using infrastructure as code instead of configuring and managing their IT infrastructure manually.

Xilinx claims its smartNIC will allow customers to offload 90% of Open vSwitch processing from the CPU for an improvement in packet throughput of more than 500%.

The open RAN framework is 40% cheaper than traditional telecommunication infrastructure, according to CTO Tareq Amin.

The company is moving the event to an all-digital experience, and there will not be any keynotes or sessions open to an audience.

Nokia CEO walked the plank; VMware's winning streak came to a screeching halt; and Marvell injected new life into its infrastructure chips.

Joint customers will be able utilize Birst's integrated end-to-end platform for building automated data warehouses natively on Snowflake.