“Nine months ago people knew zero trust as a paradigm was coming, and then it basically arrived overnight in a violent and unceremonious fashion,” Cisco CISO Mike Hanley said.

The partnership caps a busy year for the startup, which raised $167.2 million this year alone in two funding rounds that sent its valuation soaring above $9 billion.

The new Microsoft partnership comes about a month after Nutanix landed a similar service with Amazon Web Services.

Chef CEO Barry Crist had previously admitted that the firm was being “highly impacted” by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; VMware scored a Dish 5G deal; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

HashiCorp had planned to release the latest update later in the year, but the COVID-19 pandemic quickly changed customer needs.

Google also rolled out BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics service that extends BigQuery across on-premises environments, rival cloud AWS and, coming soon, Azure.

The U.S. Federal Reserve considers Deutsche Bank a badly managed lender in “troubled condition” and it has been caught in multiple schemes.

“Tanzu and OpenShift are the two swim lanes, and Ezmeral will be a third swim lane with very unique opportunities,” HPE CTO Kumar Sreekanti said.

IBM bought cloud security startup Spanugo; Nokia added Broadcom 5G chips to its ReefShark portfolio; and GSMA cancelled MWC LA.

Big Blue plans to integrate Spanugo’s software into its public cloud to help meet the security and compliance needs of regulated industries like banking and health care.

The updates follow a move by Chef last year to revamp its development, platforms, and go-to-market strategy to more fully embrace the open source community.

The vendor is now being monitored for a three-year period, following last year’s $1.06 billion settlement with the Justice Department.

StackRox’s Kubernetes Security Platform aims to help DevOps and security teams visualize all deployments and pods across namespaces and clusters.

The program will continually test and certify compliance with ONF’s open source software projects and OCP-recognized open hardware.

The companies aim to apply consistent service level agreements, security policies, and compliance data to applications and enterprise networks.

As chipmakers scramble to limit the effect of COVID-19 on supply chains, IDC analysts reported an 80% likelihood the semiconductor market would contract in 2020.

In an SEC filing, VMware said COVID-19 posed a risk to its “business operations, financial performance, results of operations, and stock price.”

There remains "considerable uncertainty" as to how measures taken by world governments to control the spread of COVID-19 could affect Intel's operations.

The 2020 data privacy study shows tangible, financial benefits in being more than a minimally compliant company.

Amazon claims to have bolstered its FedRAMP compliance by nearly 18% since the beginning of December.

JR Rivers left Cumulus Networks for AWS; Nutanix’s Sunil Potti joined Google; plus 2019's biggest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Google Cloud made some big moves in 2019, but will they be enough to best top-ranked Amazon and Microsoft and win the cloud wars?

Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud pledged to jointly develop a new multi-cloud security framework.