The open source nature of the RISC-V architecture means it is largely immune from trade restrictions leveled against Chinese tech firms.

More than 6,000 employees, or 6.4% of Nokia’s workforce at the beginning of 2020, were cut or laid off by the company during the year.

Ciena posted a robust Q1; KDDI moved on a 5G-focused TIP initiative; and Ericsson reflected on 2020, and is eyeing 5G growth.

“We continue to transform the company through maintained focus on research and development,” CEO Börje Ekholm wrote in Ericsson's annual report.

Snowflake, the hottest IPO in 2020, ended the year on a colder note with quarterly loss of nearly $200 million and annual losses topping $500 million.

The grant process is also about encouraging the cybersecurity industry to engage with these nonprofits because diversity is imperative to moving the industry forward.

Intel and its partners discovered 231 vulnerabilities affecting the companies product portfolio. None are known to have been exploited.

Microsoft suffers a zero-day attack; Arista gives SOCs an AI analyst; VMware ties its SD-WAN into Azure's public cloud.

Microsoft liberally sprinkled references to the recent SolarWinds breach on its most recent updates, and also provided more insight into the wide-ranging attack.

“Obviously we work in a much more distributed environment," HPE CEO Antonio Neri said. "That's why we believe our Aruba business is a digital transformation engine for our customers."

One of the new features uses Ava, Awake’s autonomous security analyst (think: Siri’s security analyst cousin) to automate forensic investigations.

“The big point here is blockchain is useful," Oracle's Juan Loaiza said. "It adds another layer that isn't solved by any traditional security technologies."

Equinix Metal is a bare metal IaaS product that partners like VMware, Google Anthos, or Red Hat can provide runtimes, applications, and other upper layer services upon.

Microsoft pushed Azure Arc to general availability; U.S. Sen. Klobuchar called for big tech regulation; Cisco revealed private 5G network vision.

"We need to address the larger set of problems caused by the unchecked power of monopolies, and that includes big tech companies," Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said.

"While running Azure ML in multiple clouds will appear as another attractive benefit of this move, the reality is multi-cloud is not yet an operational reality for machine learning

“We really think that simplicity wins, so we’ve been working with leading carriers and leading enterprises just to understand how we can simplify it,” Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

The new AI supercomputing cluster is based on Nvidia's DGX A100 modular server chassis.

While the line between data warehouses and data lakes has grown fuzzier, players on both sides of the isle have been raking in the cash.

“The pandemic was the heyday that attackers were looking for,” said Limor Kessem, executive security advisor at IBM Security.

The platform, now available to all customers, allows users to run their IBM Cloud service on-premises or in edge locations managed through a single pane of glass in the

VMware's executive search continued; Dell Tech asserted unique strengths for 5G, edge; and SDxCentral's 2-minute Weekly Wrap podcast.

On the company's Q2 earnings call, Ramaswami touted a “multi-million-dollar, one-year subscription deal” with a top financial services company to provide more than 90,000 virtual desktops.

Fujitsu’s purchase of Marvell silicon will be of particular interest to operators awaiting delivery of its 5G open RAN equipment, like Dish Network.