In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump has tightened restrictions on Chinese chipmakers, but will these restrictions survive the Biden transition?

Cisco, VMware, and SUSE were just some of the big-time vendors that scooped up Kubernetes-focused startups.

VMware’s ravenous appetite for smaller companies continued this year, and we wouldn’t put it past the virtualization giant to ink another deal or two before the ball drops on

VMware denied a link to the SolarWinds cyberattack; Oracle and Cybereason combine their cloud and security products; and Microsoft is reportedly developing custom silicon for its Azure cloud.

Jeff Reed's move to Google comes after nearly a decade at Cisco.

During Q3 alone, hyperscale operator capex spending topped $37 billion, “easily setting a new record for quarterly spending,” Synergy said.

The partnership will see the cloud provider sell Cybereason’s endpoint security platform, which is optimized for delivery via Oracle’s global cloud regions.

The software giant is reportedly developing an Arm-based server chip for use in its Azure public cloud as well as a consumer-centric chip.

The IP-related ban targets China’s SMIC; Dell continues its HCI domination, but HPE gains; and Rancher Labs taps Kubernetes to simplify HCI.

The donation builds on a past commitment and could further smooth over what has been a tense year between the two organizations.

“It’s important to recognize that there’s no one size fits all — no magical, HCI unicorn that can optimally address the needs of every workload and every business,” HPE’s

A provision in the restriction effectively bans China's largest chipmaker from acquiring the U.S. technologies required to produce 10 nanometer and smaller chips.

Harvester focuses on the HCI users and doesn't expose users to Kubernetes concepts, Rancher Labs co-founder Sheng Liang explained.

Its greater flexibility is also behind Microsoft’s move toward recommending CAPZ over its legacy AKS Engine product.

Mirantis and Platform9 released their own versions of fully-managed, bare metal orchestration platforms to provide "the best of both worlds."

Fully homomorphic encryption allows data to remain encrypted even while being processed or analyzed in cloud or third-party environments.

The update comes a month after rival VMware launched its own Kubernetes-focused networking update.

VMware plans to ‘pave the earth with Tanzu;’ AWS, Oracle battled for the database management crown; and Microsoft security execs scored $100 million.

The release marks Instana’s first service that supports systems running on Arm processors.

The cloud giant plans to release chaos engineering as a managed service in early 2021, borrowing a framework popularized by Netflix for internal use back in 2011.

The founding team built the cloud security stack for Azure and also sold an earlier startup, cloud access security broker Adallom, to Microsoft for $320 million.

Microsoft and Google were also in that leadership mix, with all four sitting well ahead of fellow leaders SAP, IBM, Alibaba Cloud, and Teradata in Gartner's latest boxed ranking.

“In the coming year, we are going to be super aggressive about Tanzu bundled with vSphere,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said.

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