The cloud-based software added to Mavenir’s portfolio include platforms for webscale deployments, AI and analytics, multi-access edge computing, and digital enablement.

F5 paid $500 million for Volterra; Cisco’s $2.6 billion Acacia deal will head to court; and Red Hat bought Kubernetes security startup StackRox.

The deal will see Red Hat fold StackRox's security software to its OpenShift Kubernetes platform.

“We’re bullish on gaining market share in a $10-billion-plus [total available market] that’s growing faster than any other segment of the security markets,” Lacework CEO Dan Hubbard said.

The world’s leading cloud providers hastened their collective rise in mobile operator’s 5G networks and business models throughout 2020.

Cisco, VMware scooped up Kubernetes startups in 2020; 5G gained and wained in 2020; and IBM, Nokia, and Cisco were among vendors that slashed jobs.

The new capabilities use technology that VMware acquired from Octarine, and they build on VMware’s Cloud Workload Protection that it announced at VMworld.

Cisco, VMware, and SUSE were just some of the big-time vendors that scooped up Kubernetes-focused startups.

VMware’s ravenous appetite for smaller companies continued this year, and we wouldn’t put it past the virtualization giant to ink another deal or two before the ball drops on

The IP-related ban targets China’s SMIC; Dell continues its HCI domination, but HPE gains; and Rancher Labs taps Kubernetes to simplify HCI.

The donation builds on a past commitment and could further smooth over what has been a tense year between the two organizations.

Harvester focuses on the HCI users and doesn't expose users to Kubernetes concepts, Rancher Labs co-founder Sheng Liang explained.

IBM rolled out next-gen encryption; the Linux Foundation debuted its DENT switch; and Cisco confirmed job cuts.

Its greater flexibility is also behind Microsoft’s move toward recommending CAPZ over its legacy AKS Engine product.

Mirantis and Platform9 released their own versions of fully-managed, bare metal orchestration platforms to provide "the best of both worlds."

Nokia CEO touted a reorganization plan for growth; LF Energy targeted power grid virtualization; and the SolarWinds fallout got worse.

The update comes a month after rival VMware launched its own Kubernetes-focused networking update.

“In the coming year, we are going to be super aggressive about Tanzu bundled with vSphere,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said.

SolarWinds was centerstage of the FireEye, US government cyberattack; T-Mobile has gained Kubernetes confidence; and Rakuten defended open RAN.

Cisco bagged Banzai Cloud; Palo Alto Networks paid $670M for Expanse; Cato claimed unicorn status; plus the latest VC/M&A news from November.

“We don't see a lot of reasons not to put everything on Kubernetes at this point," T-Mobile US' Joe Searcy said.

Ericsson slapped Samsung with a patent lawsuit; AWS stuffed Cisco SD-WAN into VPC; and Orca scored a $55 million Series B funding round.

The update also signals the beginning of the end of support for the Dockershim container runtime interface for Docker, which drew considerable attention to mitigate.

The Linux Foundation’s latest open source project is a cloud native identity and access management platform that tackles online trust and security.