VMware integrated Menlo Security technologies into its SASE platform and started talking about its extended detection and response strategy today at VMworld.

“We have now deployed a next generation IP MPLS core routing platform into our production network based on this open software,” AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said.

Arista bought Awake for NDR security; Red Hat scored a Samsung OpenShift 5G Deal; and VMware needs to make a SASE security purchase.

Parallel Wireless, one of Mavenir’s strongest competitors in the open RAN market, previously claimed to be the only open RAN vendor with 2G and 3G capabilities.

“We're not quite there yet with all the pieces in the open RAN," said Ian Hood, chief technologist at Red Hat.

Incumbent leaders, VMware and Silver Peak, were joined by Versa, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Cisco as "leaders" in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Magic Quadrant report.

Google Cloud drives Unilever’s sustainable sourcing; Microsoft takes a water positive dive; plus other Climate Week announcements on our radar.

“The second half of 2020 is increasingly looking like it may be worse than the first," MTN Consulting's Matt Walker said.

“Cloud is an operating model,” said Deepak Patil, SVP for cloud platforms and solutions at Dell Technologies. “It’s not a destination.”

Underneath that Defender brand will sit Microsoft 365 Defender for end-user environments and Azure Defender for cloud and hybrid infrastructure.

“The stakes of this are high, and 5G will determine whether the next Google, Apple, Amazon, and Uber of the world is created here in the U.S. or abroad,"

AT&T taps Microsoft Azure for security; Cisco boosts Microsoft's on-ramps; and Intel looks to the edge.

XDR is a newish approach to threat detection and response that Gartner called a top security and risk management trend of 2020.

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

The chipmaker claims the new products are in response to pervasive IoT challenges around edge complexity, cost, and impacts on the environment.

The deployment, which debuted in Atlanta and Pittsburgh, will eventually reach nationwide scale but not until Vapor IO completes its colocation installations around the country.

HPE scorched Dell, Nutanix in hyperconverged revenue growth; Synchronoss CEO resigned; and IBM put a price tag on cyber risk.

“Microsoft realizes the world is going hybrid, multi, and they want to be the guardian of these combined estate via their own control plane," said Gartner's Sid Nag.

“We’ll get to open RAN when the time is right and the opportunity makes sense for us," T-Mobile's Neville Ray said.

The roadmap will see public cloud provider deploy Intel, AMD, and Arm-based CPUs, as well as Nvidia's A100 GPUs across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

HPE generated a staggering 53.5% revenue growth during the quarter while HCI vendors including Dell and Nutanix posted declines.

Despite breaches costing companies millions of dollars, CISOs still have a tough time justifying security budgets to corporate boards.

VMware SD-WAN, SASE expanded at Equinix; Cisco named election disinformation as a top concern; and IT professionals shared COVID-19 woes.

“In case anyone was still in doubt, cloud is increasingly dominating the IT landscape,” Synergy’s John Dinsdale said.