Dell and VMware reached a spinoff deal; Cisco dropped $100 million on clean climate tech; and Druva bagged a $147 million investment, $2 billion valuation.

The world’s largest public cloud provider is not looking to invest in one vendor or software provider so it can push network operators in that direction, AWS' David Brown

The settlement comes as Samsung makes a concerted effort to bolster its position in the radio access network market.

What the Dish 5G deal means for AWS and its rivals, and IBM plugs a chip first.

Analysts conclude that the contract between the public cloud leader and Dish is a major win for AWS as it strives to earn broad business with network operators.

VMware's zero-carbon cloud plan takes off with Microsoft and IBM; Sophos makes the EDR to XDR leap; and IBM adds zero trust and SASE with Zscaler.

The networking vendor posted robust revenues during Q1 2021, despite an ongoing semiconductor shortage that has pushed lead times to a year for critical components.

The move follows several other EDR vendors that have extended their threat visibility and remediation capabilities beyond endpoints and across customers’ IT environments.

The cloud raises "very interesting prospects for our business as it relates to being able to ultimately serve enterprise customers with networking as a service,” T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert

Rather than starting with networking or security functionality, Juniper is rooting its SASE platform in a unified management platform called Security Director Cloud.

The new Zscaler partnership fits into IBM’s zero-trust, hybrid-work blueprint, and it also marks IBM’s move into SASE.

"At the end of day, with Apex we're creating the new Dell, and everything's got to transform to make that happen," Dell's Sam Grocott said.

Intel plunked $3.5 billion into New Mexico foundry; Aryaka acquired Secucloud to expand its SASE platform; and Red Hat opened up StackRox community.

The update not only improves the visibility of services using TLS encryption but boosts network performance tenfold, the WAN optimization vendor claims.

“Today is a proof point of the transformation of that core to a cloud-first, modern operational experience of our storage business,” HPE's Tom Black said.

The cash infusion will the Rio Rancho campus retrofitted to enable semiconductor production using the chipmaker's Foveros 3D packaging technology.

The SD-WAN vendor plans to integrate Secucloud's secure web gateway and cloud-based firewalls into a managed SASE aimed at small to midsize business.

“I think AWS is certainly in the driver’s seat at the moment of this market without question,” CCS Insight's Nick McQuire said.

Nokia’s RAN boss reflected on 5G misfires; Dell will sell Boomi for $4 billion; and Data Theorem said security needs a seat at the adults' table.

Apple pledged $430 billion for 5G and jobs; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Fortinet fired up 5G firewalls; Nokia claims turnaround success; and Dish teased multiple 5G markets.

“We’ve got activity going on across the country to actually build out this network,” Dish Network's Stephen Bye said.

The new appliances come amid another quarter of double-digit growth and signal a new focus on 5G security from the core to the edge.

Nokia said it inked contracts with 63 new enterprise customers in Q1 and roughly half of those organizations bought private wireless products or services from the vendor.