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

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

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 report examined the market trends that have helped to shape the SASE product category and ranked the top vendors by market share.

Cisco security soared while infrastructure revenue slipped; Verizon dialed Deloitte for a retail 5G MEC deal; and Google Cloud bested AWS.

Verizon expanded its fresh partnership with Deloitte to make a new platform available to retailers that rides on 5G and mobile edge computing.

Overall during Q2, Cisco’s total revenue remained flat at $11.96 billion with product revenue down 1% to $8.57 billion and service revenue up 2% to $3.39 billion.

Telus inked a 10-year Google Cloud deal; Fortinet's firewalls and web apps were hit by a security flaw; and Oracle Hybrid Cloud roved to the edge.

The latest flash storage arrays refresh the entry space and offer the advantages of NVMe, IBM FlashCore, and Spectrum Virtualize technologies.

Another new feature, which is available in preview, provides insights into software-as-a-service application usage, risk levels, and trends over time.

Telus said it plans to use Google Cloud to assemble a multi-access edge computing service running on the hyperscaler’s Anthos platform.

The more grandiose vision and potential success of Rakuten Mobile, and open RAN by extension, is still rooted in theoretical terms.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumped to Intel; SAP snagged a Microsoft cloud executive, and SoftBank shook up its executive ranks.

Fortinet's CEO staked out SD-WAN domination; T-Mobile put the 5G screws to Verizon, AT&T: and RSA added AI threat hunting to NetWitness.

IBM gifted $3 million to school security; Extreme eyes 5G; and Cisco is moving into application security.

“2021 is the year during which we believe that, for all relevant and significant parts, we will complete the catch up” on 5G, CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

Cisco Secure Application continually scans code execution to prevent exploits and can automatically block attacks, the vendor says.

The VMware Cloud Foundation update adds vSAN Data Persistence support for S3-compatible, Kubernetes-based object-storage via MinIO and Cloudian plugins.

The 5G Global Enterprise solution Consortium will kick off those efforts in Thailand later this year with planned commercial services starting in 2022.

Building on the success of its ExtremeCloud IQ platform, Extreme aims to extend the service to third-party equipment vendors and 5G applications.

Google Cloud lost billions in Q4; Amazon’s leadership change signals a cloud-centric future; and Health care CISOs face new ransomware tactics.

Andy Jassy's promotion highlights the critical nature of and growing opportunity that is Amazon Web Services.

Extending support to Google Cloud Platform secures the trifecta of major public cloud platforms included within Veeam’s offerings.

Google’s top brass downplayed these operating losses and attributed them to growing pains as the company invests billions of dollars to build out its enterprise cloud business.