“While I am not yet concerned with the declining Azure numbers as the revenue base is growing, it's something to keep our eyes on,” noted analyst Patrick Moorhead.

Prospects in the IoT market, while growing, remain dubious and the COVID-19 crisis has extended its delayed insurgence.

The initial focus of the lab will be to “bring innovation to the previously monolithic cellular network core,” according to HPE.

"We were supposed to have a national spectrum policy plan thinking about 5G. It hasn't come out yet, and that was due last April," FCC's Jessica Rosenworcel said.

One of the products, Aqua Enterprise, is essentially the company’s flagship cloud-native security product with several updates including VM support.

Cisco’s Acacia deal stalled; Oracle's sent its SD-WAN orchestrator flying to the multi-cloud; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

Fortinet says it’s been doing SASE before Gartner coined the buzzy phrase. “That’s something we term security-driven networking,” CMO John Maddison said.

Nearly all of IBM’s positive financial momentum continues to come from its Red Hat operations.

China is “now showing exactly the behavior that they’re being accused of,” said Roger Entner, founder and lead analyst at Recon Analytics.

The vendor, which has more than 180 private wireless networks deployed to date, is assembling specialized features in a smaller software stack for enterprises.

5G got squashed by COVID-19; Cloudflare config at fault for killing the internet; and Linux Foundation corralled projects for COVID-19 fight.

The Linux Foundation Public Health initiative launches with a pair of hosted projects that are currently used as exposure notification platforms targeting COVID-19.

“There’s certainly an impact here in the short term, and I think longer term there are going to be impacts,” Cisco's Bob Everson said.

“5G in the enterprise space is really a tale of those who will move forward and those who will pause,” said Dan Hays at PwC.

While some data centers have postponed deployments, cloud providers like Google and Amazon are moving forward with 400 Gb/s Ethernet.

While sales of legacy equipment are in decline, Ericsson reported a strong demand for its cloud-native and 5G portfolio, including multiple large customer wins on the 5G core.

The vendor signed a deal with colocation provider Interxion to host its GreenLake cloud service in Europe.

HPE's acquisition of Silver Peak puts the vendor in a unique position to directly challenge Cisco in the enterprise networking market, said Dell'Oro Group's Shin Umeda.

Verizon integrates IBM's enterprise legacy for IoT; counterfeit Cisco switches were uncovered; and Dell looked to spinoff VMware’s future.

The company said the goal would be to simplify its “capital structures” and create “additional long-term enterprise value.”

The companies are also exploring 5G use cases for massive IoT applications, Verizon's Sampath Sowmyanarayan said.

The latest VMware Cloud on AWS updates are targeted at furthering the cost benefits of using the nearly three-year-old service.

Google's mobile edge cloud allows operators to build virtualized network functions and cloud-native functions for the core, evolved packet core, and radio access network.

ESM Cloud is a McAfee-managed service that allows organizations to detect and investigate security issues.