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

SolarWinds was centerstage of the FireEye, US government cyberattack; T-Mobile has gained Kubernetes confidence; and Rakuten defended open RAN.

Cisco bagged Banzai Cloud; Palo Alto Networks paid $670M for Expanse; Cato claimed unicorn status; plus the latest VC/M&A news from November.

“We don't see a lot of reasons not to put everything on Kubernetes at this point," T-Mobile US' Joe Searcy said.

Ericsson slapped Samsung with a patent lawsuit; AWS stuffed Cisco SD-WAN into VPC; and Orca scored a $55 million Series B funding round.

The update also signals the beginning of the end of support for the Dockershim container runtime interface for Docker, which drew considerable attention to mitigate.

The Linux Foundation’s latest open source project is a cloud native identity and access management platform that tackles online trust and security.

AWS CEO Andy Jassy noted that around two-thirds of all containers running in the cloud are running on AWS.

Kubernetes complexity continued to challenge lock-In concerns; AWS added a network firewall; and T-Mobile's Ray knocked mmWave, open RAN.

“The danger often is some of these companies refuse to work on products that are not directly aligned to their … company's products," said the USAF's Nicolas Chaillan.

Nokia warned of a COVID-19 related traffic spike; Cato claims unicorn status; and EdgeQ snagged $51M in funding for 5G and AI modem work.

The commercial product works with VMware’s NSX-T platform to support container connectivity for Kubernetes clusters in a software-defined data center.

Cisco bagged Banzai Cloud; VMware stuffed security Into SmartNICs; and AMD unveiled its Instinct MI100 GPU.

Banzai Cloud developed a Kubernetes-based platform that helps enterprises develop, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications.

Aruba bumped Cisco from the Pentagon; AMD bagged Xilinx for $35B; and Juniper paid $450 million to buy 128 Technology.

Palo Alto Networks paid $670M for Expanse; Ericsson rode 5G, R&D to revive business growth; and Dell beefed up its data protection portfolio.

Dell also updated Data Manager software capabilities for Kubernetes and cloud data protection for Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware Tanzu.

Cisco unshackled Its HyperFlex HCI; Palo Alto Networks added cloud-based DLP; and Verizon leaned on Cisco, BlackBerry for internet security.

The “Cisco Validated” program will test and validate the HCI platform running on third-party and white box servers.

F5 is positioning these Kubernetes-based services as a layer that network operators will require as they transition to 5G standalone cores.

The announcements punctuate NetApp’s new narrative as a “cloud-led, data-centric software company.”

Cisco boasts about 1,000 SecureX wins; a Trump advisor claimed U.S. 5G clobbers China; and Microsoft’s commercial cloud avoided COVID-19 complications.

The vendor's Nexus Dashboard also was updated to better support the deployment of cloud-native applications.

New container-native capabilities to the IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks target Red Hat OpenShift and container-native data protection and discovery.