5 election cybersecurity lessons learned; Palo Alto Networks primed its Prisma Security platform; and Red Hat automated Kubernetes management.

The AI model was built using more than 30,000 X-ray images and on top of AWS SageMaker.

The work will link Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform and its Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes platform to automate cloud-native scaling.

The funding round will also see Koch's Jason Illian join Alkira's board of directors.

“We have found a void in the way other generations of technology have been addressed, both by the industry and by the government," ATIS CEO Susan Miller said.

Political campaigns face particularly tough cybersecurity challenges because they essentially operate as large, distributed enterprises with thousands of employees.

IoT adoption surged in the last year from 85% to 91%, according to the recent IoT Signals Report from Microsoft.

Ransomware is “one of the largest threats to the upcoming elections,” warned Microsoft’s Tom Burt.

Nvidia took Arm off SoftBanks’ hands for $40 billion; Accenture bet $3 billion on Cloud First expansion; and Red Hat scored a Samsung 5G deal.

The Department of Defense's cloud native-focused DevSecOps initiative has about 60 programs including jets, bombers, nuclear systems, and space systems.

Cisco slashed its workforce by 9% contradicting a previous pledge; AMD eyed a $30 billion Xilinx buy; and SDxCentral's weekly wrap podcast.

Cisco declined to say how many employees will be impacted by the job cuts.

IBM ditched its legacy biz; ABI Research predicted open RAN shipments to surpass $47B by 2028; and Data center spend is set to grow in 2021.

The tech giant is ditching its lagging Managed Infrastructure Services and Global Technology Services business units into their own separate public company dubbed “NewCo.”

Total open RAN radio shipments will surpass $47 billion by 2026, ABI Research predicts.

Gartner projects end-user spending on global data center infrastructure products to reach $200 billion in 2021, an increase of 6% from 2020.

Cisco powers Internet2 and is working with Verizon to make fans safe; Microsoft's diversity pledge draws Labor Department inquiry; Juniper adds VPN app, access controls.

"It gives organizations a level of ‘arms wrapped around everything’ control, based upon its single source of truth and comprehensive visibility,” explained ESG's Mark Peters.

Most people have no interest in attending crowded events while a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease is spreading.

Druva's new offering eliminates backup performance and cost problems, and provides visibility and insight into unstructured NAS data.

“We have decades of experience and know full well how to appropriately create opportunities for people without taking away opportunities from others,” wrote Microsoft General Counsel Dev Stahlkopf.

“This is a widespread problem in the cloud,” Palo Alto Network’s Matt Chiodi said.

“We have been talking about the death of [infrastructure-as-a-service] for years now, and the reality is that it’s not going away anytime soon,” DigitalOcean's Apurva Joshi said.

Kasten’s K10 platform will be integrated into Veeam Backup and Replication, and Veeam will continue to sell K10 independently.