The companies aim to accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption, advance artificial intelligence, enhance cybersecurity resilience, and modernize enterprise IT operations.

The expansive deal positions VMware as Vodafone’s central nervous system for networks and IT systems.

VMware research finds employees want transparent spying; and Cisco powers AT&T's latest managed SASE.

Meta also said it wants to develop an “open and standard die-to-die interface” for data center operators to integrate open chiplets into their facilities.

The new switch silicon complements Nvidia's growing networking ecosystem, including its upcoming ConnectX-7 NICs and BlueField-3 DPUs.

“We offer all our security features baked into the cloud, so we don’t make the customers choose between cost and security,” Oracle VP of Software Bala Chandran said.

The update marks Cisco's latest move in its full-stack observability strategy that began with its $1 billion Thousand Eyes acquisition.

The EPYC refresh comes as AMD scores another victory over rival Intel. Meta this week announced a new, more power-efficient server platform powered by team red’s EPYC 3 processors.

“It becomes very important to have complete or comprehensive zero trust across the enterprise,” Palo Alto Networks CPO Lee Klarich said.

Build applications in the cloud like cattle, not pets, says Aaron Ansari, VP of cloud security at Trend Micro. He also strongly endorses ant relay races.

While Fortinet expects to maintain strong revenue growth going into the fourth quarter, CFO Keith Jensen warned supply chain constraints could slow the vendor's momentum.

"We're in the beta test mode and we'll progress that over the course of the next 90 days and look forward to launching Vegas sometime in the first quarter

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna touted the spinoff as an opportunity to reorient IBM’s portfolio around two of the 'most transformational' technologies: hybrid cloud and AI.

Under the agreement, Siemens will sell its Ruggedcom networking and security platforms with Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewalls built in.

The pairing puts the two aspiring vendors in line to capture a greater share of the RAN market if open RAN adoption picks up in the coming years.

Hybrid networking and security models have only made network teams' lives harder, Tag Cyber CEO Ed Amoroso said.

IBM announced plans to buy ReaQta; Juniper Networks’ CEO challenged Cisco and Arista; and SUSE acquired container security vendor NeuVector.

Snyk didn’t disclose financial details about the CloudSkiff deal, which is its fourth acquisition in the last 12 months.

“Security is a very vibrant and innovative space, and there are a lot of ways to solve the problem,” SUSE's Sheng Liang said.

“​​I challenge Arista’s Cloud Vision to work on Cisco infrastructure or Cisco's ACI to work on Arista switches. It can't be done,” CEO Rami Rahim said.

While other vendors in the emerging XDR space debate a platform versus open or partner approach, IBM says it remains committed to providing both.

The update builds on several recent collaborations with colocation and cloud providers, and it boasts improved multi-tenancy and an updated management console.

Cloud Exchange is available at no added cost and enables threat intelligence and other data to be shared between multiple security products.

Under the agreement, Dell Technologies shed its 81% stake in VMware, which is now a $64 billion independent software company.