HPE, Mavenir, and Rakuten also embraced Qualcomm's 5G radio access network accelerator cards and massive MIMO antenna chipsets.

This new wave of Azure for Operators, recently combined with AT&T’s Network Cloud tech, is designed to support AT&T's mobile core network.

“Protecting the runtime is the foundation of securing the inner workings of a modern application,” VMware's Tom Gillis said.

APIs represent a huge security threat; Gelsinger’s best may not be enough for investors; and Verizon tapped VMware in its global SD-WAN push.

The VMware-backed managed SD-WAN targets globally distributed enterprises.

Dish faults technical difficulties for its 5G delays; IBM warns ransomware follows the cloud migration; and Ericsson rises to the top of the RAN market.

The operator says it's developing “Advanced DU pooling” with Intel to bring elasticity to the distributed unit layer in the RAN.

Microsoft also extended its native cloud security capabilities to Google Cloud in addition to its existing AWS and Azure support.

Despite an uptick in law enforcement takedowns over the last year, ransomware remains the top attack type, IBM's X-Force reports.

“We’re six months behind where we thought we’d be, and it’s my fault," Dish chair and co-founder Charlie Ergen said.

Kyndryl partnered with AWS; Arrcus wins customers from rivals through entry points; and CloudBolt reported IT leaders think the cloud has hit a wall.

Even though cloud strategies have scaled and evolved, the associated complexities have exponentially increased, CloudBolt reported.

The partnership rounds out the managed service provider’s cloud arsenal, which already included Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Benu partnered with AWS; the cybersecurity skills shortage remains particularly acute; and Arista Networks embedded NDR into its campus switches.

The partnership enables telecoms to offer SASE services even in markets where they have little to no physical presence.

The IT enterprise juggernaut revealed an infrastructure platform that aims to help operators build and deploy open, cloud-native networks.

Dubbed Forcepoint One, the SSE platform offers customers the full suite of SASE security features minus the networking baggage.

“You have to assume that an advanced persistent threat is going to go inside your network,” CEO Ratan Tipirneni said.

Making networks more sustainable is a universal objective and a joint priority between Ericsson and its customers, Ericsson's Per Navinger said.

KDDI claims to run the first 5G standalone open RAN site; a New Mexico water utility tapped Cisco for security; and Cisco might acquire these companies next.

"Our vision at the end of the day is to be the final piece that breaks down all of those [data] silos," Arcion CEO Gary Hagmueller said.

F5 expanded its application security portfolio; Nokia and Kyndryl expanded their private 5G partnership; and Snyk acquired Fugue.

Citrix has some jewels that could still have great value as a standalone company, Dell’Oro Group's Mauricio Sanchez said.

The simplified portfolio boils down to five core areas: cloud infrastructure, management, storage, database, and desktop services, SVP Thomas Cornely said.