The vendor plans to integrate Bitglass into its fledgling SASE platform.

Rakuten Symphony needs money; SASE is an integral part of VMware's broader multi-cloud strategy; Cisco sets its data and privacy standard.

Increasingly the vendor's SASE is becoming a platform for connecting applications with applications and clouds with clouds.

Mandiant released two new SaaS products; Telefónica predicts an increase of open RAN deployments; and Solo.io earned coveted unicorn status.

The U.S.-based foundry operator will be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker GFS.

“More money will allow us to go faster, bigger, and stronger. And that's the reason that we took it,” Solo.io CEO Idit Levine said.

Transitioning more of VMware's expansive software portfolio to a software-as-a-service model was one of several topics covered by Kit Colbert at VMworld 2021.

“Tanzu is the future of VMware,” Ajay Patel said during VMworld 2021, where the vendor announced expansions to its Tanzu portfolio.

The chipmaker claims its new switches and data processing units offer 50% lower power consumption than its competitors.

VMware and Nvidia partnered to deploy AI workloads on Kubernetes; VMware boosted cloud-native security; and Dell extended its cloud partnership with VMware.

“Going forward, multi-cloud is at the center of gravity for everything we do,” Raghu Raghuram said during his opening keynote at VMworld.

The vendor's Secure Private Access provides conditional access to applications based on factors including identity, location, and device.

VMware boosted its cloud-native security capabilities at VMworld with a new API security product and posture management services across Kubernetes clusters.

The cloud service providers pledged to protect the “privacy and security of our customers’ data in all jurisdictions through policy and technology.”

“We’re hopeful that it will help shape the industry’s thinking about what does it mean to be a trusted provider,” Cisco’s Chief Privacy Officer Harvey Jang said.

Fugue released an infrastructure as code platform; the Quad pledged to foster open RAN tech; and Gartner analysts say security services should be consolidated.

The expansion stores air-gapped backups in immutable storage with end-to-end data encryption and allows customers to bring their own encryption keys.

“SASE at first might seem like a grand vision but there are absolutely things that you can do to move toward a SASE architecture today,” Gartner's Neil MacDonald said.

Usually, developers and security teams need to use two sets of policies — and two different languages — to secure both infrastructure as code and cloud runtime environments.

“Data storage and management ultimately should be just services, delivered as code, self-managed, using AI,” Pure Storage CPO Ajay Singh said.

Alkira expanded its security portfolio; Cisco is unphased by O-RAN Alliance drama; and Akamai acquired Guardicore for $600 million.

The move marks Fungible’s latest push to bring composable infrastructure to the masses.

Software components tap into Juniper's acquisition of intent-based networking vendor Apstra.

“We’re going to keep doing what we've been doing and all the rest of this stuff will sort itself out as more and more customers deploy open RAN technologies,”