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“So much of venture is really about forming relationships between investors and entrepreneurs, and it’s very, very difficult to build those relationships virtually,” Allegis Capital’s Bob Ackerman said.

The report suggested that enterprises focus on the depth of platform support when selecting a vendor.

Dell deepened hardware and supply chain security; AWS exerted container dominance; and ONF scored a $30 million deal.

AWS CEO Andy Jassy noted that around two-thirds of all containers running in the cloud are running on AWS.

“The overall telecom equipment market continued to appear disconnected from the underlying economy,” Dell’Oro Group VP Stefan Pongratz wrote.

Some 44% of organizations experienced at least one hardware-level or firmware attack over the past 12 months, and 16% have had more than one attack.

Cohesity is betting its money – and AWS' – on enterprises that don’t want to manage their own data.

The FortiGate Rugged 60F is designed to operate in remote locations that are not environmentally controlled.

Wavelengths, Local Zones, and Outposts are a collection of the many ways AWS wants to bring its cloud platform to customers wherever they are, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said.

“We think of hybrid infrastructures, including the cloud along with various other edge nodes — on-premises data centers being one of them, but there are several,” AWS CEO Andy

Amazon allied with Apple; Google edged Anthos to bare metal; and a pesky Cisco VPN bug that avoided capture was your favorite SDxCentral November story.

The cloud giant unveiled new Graviton2-based instances alongside a partnership with Intel's Habana Labs and its own machine learning training chip called Trainium.

Users can also access a website – Amazon ECR Public Gallery – that hosts the public container images, allowing them to view image details and how to pull the

Google says Anthos on bare metal gives customers more flexibility to run their workloads wherever they want: in Google Cloud, on-premises, in other clouds, or at the edge.

Huawei, Juniper Networks, and Cisco were ranked challengers in this year's report.

Delayed spectrum auctions, permitting, technology evaluations, and testing have all been delayed by about nine to 12 months due to the ongoing global pandemic, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

The vendor now offers quantum-safe cryptography support for key management and application transactions in IBM Cloud.

If Cisco does acquire one or multiple open RAN vendors, it wouldn’t represent a major shift in strategy for the vendor, said analyst Roger Entner.

Intel faces increased pressure from rival AMD and a swath of Arm-based server chips, while Nvidia, once unchallenged in the data center GPU space, has a challenger in AMD.

VMware subscription and SaaS revenue hit $676 million during Q3; Dell Tech is "cautiously optimistic" about 2021 IT; and Dish and Rakuten execs dismiss "one throat to choke" rebuttals.

The major workforce reduction comes less than two months after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced plans to ditch IBM’s legacy business units into a separate company.

Dell Technologies is "cautiously optimistic about the potential for recovery post-pandemic related pressures," CFO Tom Sweet said.

Nutanix posted a Q1 beat; Telus tapped Nokia for 5G services; and Matrixx dives into HPE Greelake.