Shekar Ayyar, who is an EVP and GM for VMware’s Telco and Edge Cloud, is linking with the newly formed AdMY Technologies to invest in telecom, 5G, and edge

Kong raised $171 million through four funding rounds to bolster its universal service mesh, and tripled its valuation to $1.4 billion since its Series C.

The gear features the Swedish vendor’s next-generation custom silicon, which it now calls Ericsson Silicon.

Arista closed a strong Q4; Check Point moved into cloud-native app protection; and IBM, Linux Foundation expanded Call for Code for Racial Justice.

In a memo to Intel staff, Gelsinger called on the company to take the necessary steps to restore the company's leadership position in the semiconductor market.

“You can draw a direct connection to the events in the news and the two solutions we’re unveiling today,” IBM's Ruth Davis said.

Coming out of a turbulent year, Arista is targeting revenues of $630 million to $650 million in the first quarter of 2021.

The new CloudGuard AppSec product, which is based on technology Check Point acquired from ForceNock, uses contextual AI to prevent attacks against cloud apps.

Baffle's tech will give Snowflake users a hold your own key capability to prevent external parties from seeing or decrypting data.

Arista and Microsoft validated optical pluggables; Databricks drove Google Cloud to the data lakehouse; and Cisco and Palo Alto Networks are eyeing an XDR and SASE fusion.

Extended detection and response and secure access service edge were two of the hottest security trends last year, and they don’t show any sign of slowing down in 2021.

The partnership will give Databricks users the ability to bring their data lakes and the service’s analytics capabilities to Google Cloud.

Palo Alto Networks touted its SASE superiority; U.S. chip firms have called for subsidies; and Colt and ADVA tested quantum-secured encryption.

Palo Alto Networks said it will fold the startup’s technology, which codifies infrastructure configuration during development, into its Prisma Cloud security platform.

According to the vendor’s analysis of more than 500 enterprise customers using Prisma Access, 53% of all remote workforce threats are for non-web apps.

Lacework scored $525 million to battle Palo Alto Networks; the Linux Foundation gobbled up Open19; and Cisco paid $4.5 billion for Acacia.

The offering consolidates Masergy’s existing unified communications platform and Webex into a single application.

Qualcomm, Google, and Microsoft are also complaining about Nvidia's pending $40 billion purchase of Arm.

The new product joins Dell’s hybrid cloud service, which is also available through the Cloud Console, and it builds on the instance-based offerings introduced in the fall.

Zscaler, HPE, Cisco top the SASE market; Snyk eyes DevSecOps domination; and AT&T relinquished its leadership role on virtualization.

Palo Alto Networks will soon change its licensing for all of its software firewalls and security services to a consumption-based model.

Multiple changes and less obvious signs suggest AT&T has relinquished its leadership role on virtualization, according to LightCounting.

The “multi-year, multi-million-dollar investment” from both entities will include launching a VMware Cloud Migration Factory to automate the migration of computing workloads to a cloud environment.

The application performance monitoring dashboard uses machine learning to quickly surface relevant metrics and monitor workloads.