The Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric combines its legacy Data Analyzer with Big Switch’s monitoring fabric software and runs on Arista’s switching platform.

During his opening keynote, CEO Andy Jassy announced four additions to AWS’ storage services that could easily be mistaken for a family of Star Wars droids.

Flowmill follows two acquisitions last month and brings Splunk’s two-year buying spree total to six startups.

Kubernetes complexity continued to challenge lock-In concerns; AWS added a network firewall; and T-Mobile's Ray knocked mmWave, open RAN.

Instana's application performance monitoring platform will be integrated into IBM's existing monitoring stack and feed its Watson AIOps engine.

IBM ingested Instana; Palo Alto Networks tackled 5G security; and Google fortified its networking security portfolio with adaptive protection.

The Instana assets will provide IBM with deeper DevOps visibility to support closed-loop automation, more context to support deeper insight, and can use artificial intelligence to resolve problems.

The partnership caps a busy year for the startup, which raised $167.2 million this year alone in two funding rounds that sent its valuation soaring above $9 billion.

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

The survey found 66% of organizations plan to increase their cybersecurity investments because of COVID-19 and remote workforces.

Splunk will integrate both companies’ technologies into its new Observability Suite, which it also announced at its annual user conference today.

The announcement marks the latest win for the chipmaker, which has seen strong interest in its EPYC 2 server chips since they launched last year.

The security vendor will also host its virtual Fal.Con this week, and more than 20,000 people registered to attend the event.

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.

"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.

The project aims to provide a consistent management platform for distributed compute across multiple accelerators using smartNICs.

The lightweight agent actively monitors users for suspicious or malicious behavior and applies policies accordingly.

Chronicle, the security startup that spun off and then later re-merged with Google Cloud, today rolled out a threat detection tool called Detect.

AT&T met its SDN goal; Accenture bet $3B on Cloud First expansion; and the COVID-19 crunched the cloud-native ecosystem.

Sumo Logic’s platform provides monitoring and security analytics tools. In its IPO filing, the company estimates its market opportunity to be $49.3 billion.

Versa has announced a series of service provider partnerships tailored for small-to-midsized businesses of late.

Building a SASE requires expertise in networking and cloud-based security. Buying one can be prohibitively expensive, but that hasn't stopped some vendors from doing just that.

VMware pushed Kubernetes automation; Amazon promised a hiring spree; and IBM went all in on AI.

The vendor's CloudVision platform offers customers an alternative to on-premises monitoring and management.