The combined technology also puts Snyk, riding high on an $8.5 billion valuation, in an even better position to make good on its DevSecOps domination dreams.

Network access control has been a constant thorn in Juniper's side. The WiteSand acquisition remedies that, Juniper's Jeff Aaron says.

Google found 86% of compromised cloud instances were used for crypto mining; IBM acquired Sentaca; and Cisco and Microsoft address inconsistent SaaS performance.

The deal marks at least 20 acquisitions for IBM since CEO Arvind Krishna assumed his position in 2020, including 10 in the realm of consulting.

The FCC allocated $1.2 billion to fund broadband deployments; Pluribus released the seventh generation of its SDN platform; and Cisco has big dreams of growing its Networking Academy.

“We timed our investment in bringing to market the most advanced 400 Gb/s platforms at the right time," Pluribus CMO Mike Capuano claims.

Ericsson usurped Huawei as global RAN leader; hackers weaponized Microsoft Excel in a West-Asian cyberattack; and data privacy is key to gaining trust.

Plus, a bug in the Linux kernel, discovered earlier this month, leaves Kubernetes clusters and other containerized workloads open to attack.

Dell Technologies is “in a unique position” to solve customer challenges across a broad set of public clouds, VP Caitlin Gordan said.

Overall adoption of serverless architecture has stalled, CNCF's 2021 State of Cloud Native Development Report found.

MWC Barcelona will continue as scheduled despite COVID-19 surges; CISOs are investing more in security products; and VMware Tanzu aims to lessen the skills gap.

Wind River Studio, which formally debuted in early 2021, brings Kubernetes and containers to a cloud-native 5G edge network platform.

VMware Tanzu Application Platform aims to minimize the challenge of navigating Kubernetes and reduce the developer skills gap.

“A SOAR tool has been the missing piece for Google’s Chronicle offering since practically its inception," Forrester analyst Allie Mellen said.

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Cloudflare CEO digs Palo Alto Networks with its firewall; HPE touts its HPC prowess; and Puppet named Gene Hall as CMO.

Cloudflare CEO touts its cloud-native firewall; Ethernet switch revenue grew 11% year over year in Q3; and Verizon’s 5G mmWave network has a tree problem.

Snyk acquired CloudSkiff; Lacework closed a record-breaking $1.3 billion funding round; and IBM acquired SXiQ.

Cnvrg extended support for Intel’s Habana Gaudi AI accelerators; Rubrik partnered with Microsoft; and Deutsche Telekom rolled out 5G on Kubernetes.

The German network operator claims it's the first global telco to roll out Kubernetes across both its network core and edge sites.

Does this first wave of open RAN for 5G necessitate a joint venture or an outright merger or acquisition involving Dish and Rakuten?

If approved as an incubating project, the Kubernetes-based serverless project could find itself on a path to wider industry adoption.

"It seems appropriate that as we were getting people moving from Palo Alto [Networks], that the appropriate place for them to move was Oahu," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said.

"Some say we are the AWS of wireless,” Dish Network EVP Marc Rouanne boasted at the event.