5 ransomware predictions to ring in 2021; SD-WAN and SASE predictions for the new year; and Third Point implored Intel to explore external fabs.

The past year, in part because of the pandemic, has been a seminal one for the SD-WAN and SASE markets. Looking ahead, the highly competitive markets show no sign

While 2021 will (hopefully) usher in mass immunizations against COVID-19 and the beginning of the so-called post-pandemic new normal, ransomware’s not slowing down in the year ahead.

Published reports indicated the IPO could value Qualtrics at more than $14 billion.

The world’s leading cloud providers hastened their collective rise in mobile operator’s 5G networks and business models throughout 2020.

2020 saw some of the biggest names in tech throw their weight and wallets behind sustainability goals to slow the effects of climate change.

Cisco, VMware scooped up Kubernetes startups in 2020; 5G gained and wained in 2020; and IBM, Nokia, and Cisco were among vendors that slashed jobs.

The new capabilities use technology that VMware acquired from Octarine, and they build on VMware’s Cloud Workload Protection that it announced at VMworld.

Tens of thousands of jobs were cut this year across the SDN and cloud ecosystem as vendors grappled with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The year that unraveled and continues to highlight the best and worst in all of us ends with all three major U.S. carriers claiming nationwide 5G coverage.

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

Cisco workers are ‘anxious’ about job cuts; Ciena shared its lessons learned rom Q4; and Orange helped Siemens hit 80% SD-WAN migration.

Rural U.S. carriers most impacted by the “rip and replace” mandate have been lobbying for a government reimbursement to offset the costs of swapping out equipment considered insecure.

The group was formed by the Institute for Security and Technology

A vast majority of employees at several technology firms expressed some level of concern over job security, according to a survey conducted by Blind and parsed through by Dice.

As Ciena looks to put the pandemic behind it, the company is leaning on its 800 Gb/s optics and upcoming pluggables to grow its market share.

Arista added Awake to Attack Surface Assessment; Cisco's security exec jumped ship for Google; and Juniper won a network overhaul deal.

“The only way to get these radios to the market and open ecosystem is by doing our own development," Mavenir's John Baker said.

“We were XDR before XDR was XDR, because we had to pull all the things together in order to enable our own teams to be successful,” Secureworks’ Ed Martin

The startup’s Kubernetes-based software analyzes log data to help communications service providers troubleshoot chat, video, and voice calls.

The South Korean media conglomerate has deployed Juniper's switches, access points, and WAN Assurance offerings to bridge the gap between its two offices.

The investment research firm remains just as skeptical as ever about 5G use cases and the difficulty operators will confront in gaining a meaningful return on their 5G investments.

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.