AT&T scoops three flavors of 'coming soon' private 5G; Dish says its 5G network is on track; and multi-cloud complexity stunts enterprise adoption.

In a panel hosted by IDC, executives from Alkira, Aviatrix, Cisco, and Verizon discussed the benefits of and the challenges facing a multi-cloud future.

Most of AT&T’s private 5G activities are in trials and testing, but the operator suggests fully operational offerings are "coming soon."

Dell and VMware reached a spinoff deal; Juniper built a Metro Cloud; and China Mobile Cloud will deploy Nuage's Virtual Cloud Services.

The partnership will see China Mobile Cloud deploy Nuage Network's Virtual Cloud Services platform for virtual private cloud and bare metal routing.

“Unlike today’s fragmented architectures, a Cloud Metro is built for resource-pooling, network slicing, and automated cloud-based operations,” Juniper's Brendan Gibbs said.

Cisco joins South Korea's digital push; FBI hacks computers to kill Exchange web shells; and Vodaphone Germany activates Europe's first 5G standalone network.

Also on Tuesday, the NSA alerted Microsoft to more critical vulnerabilities that hackers could use to remotely compromise Exchange email systems.

“I expect IT companies like Cisco to closely work with public institutions and universities, creating synergy in fostering people-centered digital infrastructure," South Korea’s Prime Minister Sye-Kyun Chung said.

"5G is standing on its own two feet in Germany for the first time," Vodafone Germany CEO Hannes Ametsreiter said.

“To unleash truly transformative innovations at the edge, what we need is a fungible edge," VMware's Kaniz Mahdi explained.

Masergy's AIOps platform is trained on 20 years of network, security, application data in order to identify and remediate performance challenges.

The multi-cloud vendor's Cloud Services Exchange platform is now available on the public cloud provider's marketplace.

The vendors are coming together to prove that “open RAN massive MIMO radios are a reality," Xilinx's Gilles Garcia said.

The company unleashed a wave of updates to its Edge Services Platform designed to make adopting a SASE architecture simpler and more flexible.

Microsoft will pay $19.7B for Nuance; IBM named its infrastructure spinoff; and Comcast software jumped into the CNCF Sandbox.

Nvidia's BlueField-3 DPU is capable of offloading 300 CPU cores worth of SDN, storage, security, and AI workloads.

Nvidia is building an Arm-based CPU to alleviate bottlenecks for the world's largest AI supercomputers.

McAfee sold its enterprise business for $4 billion; VMware joined the cloud-native app security frenzy; and Orca scored a whale of a Series C.

AWS, Alibaba, Microsoft got FaaS and furious; Juniper scored a data center win; and Oracle got SASE with Check Point.

Oracle is a fairly late entrant into the market. At this point all of the major networking and security vendors offer their own SASE platform

The data center operator will take advantage of Juniper's routing portfolio to address growing bandwidth demands across China.

VMware merges telco, edge, SASE oversight; Cisco nabs NEC to expand its 5G reach; and Fujitsu taps Trend Micro's private 5G network security.

The companies will test Trend Micro’s private 5G network security software in a simulated smart factory and an operational environment.