The partnership dramatically expands the reach of VMware's SD-WAN and secure access service edge offering.

Forrester Research ranked multi-cloud container development platforms from those three vendors ahead of five other vendors on the list, including VMware, D2iQ, and Mirantis.

“The threat actors aren’t solely after the modification of votes,” said Cisco Talos’ Matt Olney. “They’re after the collective faith in the electoral process and in Western democracy in

Ericsson grabbed Cradlepoint to boost its enterprise 5G WAN, Ciena CTO talked programable optics for 5G and edge; and AT&T caught the carbon neutral bug.

“Cradlepoint represents a critical segment that will become increasingly important in the 5G era and beyond,” Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm said.

The rise of highly-distributed edge data centers and 5G networks is changing the way vendors think about fiber optic technologies.

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.

The new organization will include 70,000 employees and integrate Accenture’s experience with cloud migration, infrastructure, application services, and ecosystem partners.

AT&T hit the long sought after target either three months early or nine months late, based on a series of previously contradictory executive statements.

AT&T's CEO warned of rough waters ahead; Snowflake's IPO is forecasted to score $4 billion; and Dell plans job cuts as VMware moves on remote pay cuts.

Snowflake had 3,117 customers as of July 31, including seven of the Fortune 10 and 146 of the Fortune 500.

Pure Storage's Matt Kixmoeller calls the combination of Pure Storage and Portworx "an opportunity to provide the most complete storage platform."

Dimitris Mavrakis, senior research director at ABI Research, called the product a “major breakthrough and significant milestone in the evolution of open RAN.”

“I think you have to kind of plan for a little bit of downside,” AT&T CEO John Stankey said. "The last six months, my life has been expect the

COO Jeff Clarke reportedly told staff during a quarterly meeting that workforce reductions won’t be limited to a particular team or division within the company.

Nvidia's $40 billion Arm acquisition will allow the company to expand into new markets through Arm's expansive licensing program.

Adding MinIO object storage to the new vSAN platform gives VMware a healthy dose of the DevOps and open source appeal it needs to to win the Kubernetes wars.

A new vSphere-Tanzu combo provides enterprises with more flexibility to bring their own networking or storage compared with VMware's Cloud Foundation platform.

Overcoming myriad competing interests to achieve even some open RAN goals is an ongoing challenge with no apparent resolution in sight.

Nvidia took Arm off Softbanks' hands in $40 billion deal; Oracle shared it's KISS cloud strategy; and Dish tapped Nokia for 5G SA core.

This mirrors Oracle’s broader strategy to win public cloud customers by touting its “second-generation” infrastructure with built-in security that costs less than competitors — notably Amazon Web Services.

T-Mobile detailed its $40B network upgrade strategy; Equinix paid $161M for India data centers; plus the latest VC/M&A news from August.

“The opportunities for us to partner and build an ecosystem with the hyperscale cloud providers is our future to be really honest," Vodafone UK CTO Scott Petty said.