The deal echoes an increased focus of inorganic growth strategies across the industry, with some calling the trend “service provider cannibalization.”

Juniper updated its Cloud Metro plans; data center M&A surges; and ransomware challenges security plans.

“Reliance on legacy technologies worked for years, but as bad actors continue to evolve, our technology must evolve as well,” Titaniam CEO Arti Raman said.

Gartner identifies issues with cloud sustainability; Microsoft leads global public cloud services revenue; and Akamai on zero trust fallacies.

Microsoft has offerings in all four sections of the public cloud services market lumped by IDC into its report.

Amazon crowned the top public cloud; Cisco connected its Catalyst to the Meraki dashboard; and Trellix's CEO called out cybersecurity's diversity problem.

CyrusOne on disaster recovery planning; Telefónica to use blockchain to track sustainability; and Parallel Wireless reportedly cuts staff.

Advanced API Security is “a comprehensive set of API security capabilities built on top of Apigee,” Google Cloud's Frank Weigel said.

HPE adopts edge to cloud architecture; Samsung continues its 2G support; and Arctic Wolf pushes security inclusiveness.

“An overwhelming majority of respondents believe convergence of network and security is critical or very important,” Masergy's Franz Chavez said.

"Today, we give you one platform, one experience from edge to cloud,” Antonio Neri said.

Google pilots a sustainability program; VMware plusses its vSphere and vSan products; and Intel and HPE debut a liquid cooling solution.

The platform counts more than 1,600 customers and $7 billion in total contract value, which is “so much ahead of all of our competitions,” HPE's Vishal Lall said.

The data center liquid cooling solution boasts energy efficiency increases of up to 30%.

The upcoming vSphere+ and vSAN+ options expand VMware's Project Arctic program.

"Now we're helping build a global movement to make [carbon-free energy] a reality for all," Google's Head of Energy Development Maud Texier said.

“There is a clear cut way that organizations can, regardless of their motives, make more money by being sustainable,” IDC's Dan Versace said.

Zscaler delivers all of the CNAPP capabilities natively based on technologies from its recent acquisitions and organic developments, SVP Rich Campagna said.

VMware scored a similar deal with Ericsson earlier this year to validate cloud-native functions running on top of VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform.

Forrester guides cybersecurity leaders amid layoffs; Snowflake improves its Data Cloud platform; and VMware extends its multi-cloud workforce.

The report found 59% of individuals agree security vendors need to "add increased intelligence to, and to be responsible for, security tooling."

The Vodafone deal will see the operator modernize and migrate “a large number of its systems” to Oracle’s Dedicated Region managed cloud products.

The vendor also named recently hired VP of Engineering Andrei Grigoriev to head up its team in Ireland.

Cisco's Predictive Networks vision; Dell'Oro Group's data center growth insight; and SoftIron on the impacts of data center hardware.