Microsoft's cloud revenue stabilized; Huawei's sales took a dive; and Sysdig secured $188 million in new funding.

“Although Prisma Cloud is probably best known for container security, we realize that customers are using a diverse set of form factors for running their cloud-native applications,” Palo Alto

“We could have more than doubled the size of the round simply based on extremely strong investor interest,” Sysdig CEO Suresh Vasudevan said.

VMware tilted into vRAN telco cloud; Red Hat OpenShift got plussed for cloud battle; HPE scored cloud-native storage exclusive.

The vendors has a new open source reference architecture that allows operators and their vendor partners to build cloud-native applications and functions on top of the Kubernetes-based OpenShift.

“This new product is billed as a storage solution, but it is much more,” Forrester analysts said. “Its really a 'glue-all' product poised to change the HCI market.”

The newly christened OpenShift Platform Plus now acts as Red Hat's halo self-managed hybrid cloud offering.

Apple pledged $430 billion for 5G and jobs; Dell tapped Secureworks for managed XDR; and Kubernetes hit a maturity milestone.

The project has slowed its release cadence to three per year, a “sign of Kubernetes becoming boring/mature,” platform co-developer Joe Beda noted on Twitter.

Cybercrime cartels know that banks’ nonpublic market information is their most valuable asset, and criminals can use it to facilitate digital insider trading and front running.

Microsoft will pay $19.7B for Nuance; IBM named its infrastructure spinoff; and Comcast software jumped into the CNCF Sandbox.

Comcast's Kuberhealthy and Trickster projects are the latest CNCF sandbox entrants. Both tools aim to simplify cloud-native environment monitoring.

Forrester Research ranked the trio as function-as-a-service market "leaders" based on the depth and breadth of their offerings.

Palo Alto Networks championed automation in security; T-Mobile got edge-y; and ex-Viptela execs tackled multi-cloud.

The new launch expands customer choice for a fully managed service that is operated and supported by the vendor.

The Carbon Black Cloud tooling update aims to "bridge the gap between the SOC team and DevOps team,” VMware Carbon Black's Shemer Schwarz explained.

Intel's chief plotted revival with new silicon; Verizon said the pandemic worsened mobile security; and Google scored a legal win over Oracle.

FortiCWP Container Guardian secures container registries from vulnerabilities and scans for misconfigurations to protect Kubernetes workloads.

The new product brings SaaS application protection into the Dell Technologies PowerProtect portfolio for Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Microsoft 365.

Megaport tied its NaaS platform into Cisco SD-WAN; VMware tapped Knative for Tanzu Kubernetes abstraction; and Nokia plugged a triple-threat enterprise strategy.

Cisco Duo offers passwordless security; Innovium certified its switch silicon; and Cisco, Huawei dominated a down enterprise network market.

CSPM for the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform adds a unified cloud and container security tool to AWS and GCP, and a new free-forever cloud security tier.

McAfee added cloud-native app security; Zscaler, CrowdStrike targeted zero-trust security; and IBM open RAN tech will drive Telefónica trial.

It’s called Mvision Cloud Native Application Protection Platform, and it includes data protection, threat prevention, governance, and compliance for container and OS-based workloads.