Cisco bagged Banzai Cloud; VMware stuffed security Into SmartNICs; and AMD unveiled its Instinct MI100 GPU.

Banzai Cloud developed a Kubernetes-based platform that helps enterprises develop, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications.

Open RAN specified offerings will only compose about 3% of industrywide volumes by 2025, the Swedish vendor's EVP Fredrik Jejdling said.

Aruba bumped Cisco from the Pentagon; AMD bagged Xilinx for $35B; and Juniper paid $450 million to buy 128 Technology.

The company found that customers were not “transforming and not investing into their future success” and “sticking more than ever to maybe too much on-premises business.”

Cisco revenues dropped but stock on the rise; SonicWall SASE tapped Perimeter 81 ZTNA; and Huawei touted 5.5G.

The vendors continued to dominate the LAN switching and wireless access markets while Arista carved out a niche following the acquisition of Mojo Networks.

Huawei also revealed 5GtoB Suite, a body of software designed to assist 5G mobile network operators with operations and maintenance requirements for enterprises.

On the Q1 earnings call with investors, CEO Chuck Robbins didn’t mention the elephant ushered into the room by the COVID-19 pandemic: massive job cuts.

SonicWall's Cloud Edge Secure Access launches alongside a spate of updated branch and enterprise firewalls.

Verizon’s 5G effort began with a heavy push on mmWave, but the coverage of that network remains narrow and sporadic, sometimes from city block to city block.

Security unicorn SentinelOne and almost unicorn Menlo Security raised hundreds of millions of dollars in late-stage funding this week.

Palo Alto Networks paid $670M for Expanse; Ericsson rode 5G, R&D to revive business growth; and Dell beefed up its data protection portfolio.

Expanse counts the U.S. Department of Defense, CVS Health, Allergan, PayPal, Accenture, Orrick, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Department of Energy as customers.

“One critical factor, COVID, has been present in almost all discussions during the year," CEO Börje Ekholm said.

Cisco unshackled Its HyperFlex HCI; Palo Alto Networks added cloud-based DLP; and Verizon leaned on Cisco, BlackBerry for internet security.

“Our vision and our mission is to lead in video and unstructured data solutions from a storage landscape perspective," said Quantum's Eric Bassier.

The “Cisco Validated” program will test and validate the HCI platform running on third-party and white box servers.

In what could be described as a feeding frenzy, chipmakers have dropped tens of billions of dollars in cash and stock options to acquire rival chipmakers.

Enterprise DLP centralizes data protection policies and automatically applies them across networks, cloud services and infrastructure, and users.

Dish’s 5G dreams came true, DT, SK Telecom inked a 5G joint venture; and according to Aryaka's CEO, managed SASE is where it's at.

Pushing the coverage of radio access networks deeper into congested public spaces, offices, venues, and transportation hubs is widely viewed as a crucial component of 5G.

Cisco slashed its workforce by 9% contradicting a previous pledge; OpenStack Foundation rebranded; and Nokia underwent major reorganization.

Silver Peak SD-WAN gained a boost from Aruba's ClearPass; T-Mobile touted a 5G lead; and a Cisco VPN bug avoided capture.