Cisco bought AppDynamics, an application performance management company, for $3.7 billion in 2017.

Bringing WekaIO into the fold expands Hitachi Vantara's digital infrastructure portfolio with an “accessible object storage platform.”

Strategically, the acquisition stands to improve Aruba's standing in the crowded and highly competitive SD-WAN market

Microsoft acquired CyberX; VMware lassoed Lastline; Equinix plotted a $750M Canadian expansion; plus the latest VC/M&A news from June.

Dozens of mobile network operators are posing as 5G carriers but none of them are the real thing. Not yet at least.

The release adds support for Nginx web-server tracing, Redis Enterprise and IBM MQ monitoring sensors, custom dashboards, and role-based access control.

“Customers want simplicity, scalability, and flexibility, and moving services to the edge gives them all of that at low latency,” Juniper’s Samantha Madrid said.

Verizon boosted Nokia; Cisco joined AT&T’s SD-WAN lineup ; and Alibaba Cloud expanded its global reach with Equinix.

“By the time we identify the killer app, it will actually be too late,” Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm said.

The deal will combine SUSE’s enterprise portfolio that is focused on Linux, edge computing, and artificial intelligence with Rancher Labs’ Kubernetes management platform.

The Equinix partnership comes on the heels of Alibaba’s plans to invest $28 billion and hire 5,000 people to boost its cloud platform.

Its namesake Data Platform monitors, protects, and recovers Kubernetes-based workloads running in Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

The True Visibility Suite enables VMware customers to automatically discover, map, and analyze their data center and hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

The U.S. Federal Reserve considers Deutsche Bank a badly managed lender in “troubled condition” and it has been caught in multiple schemes.

Ericsson rolled out its standalone 5G software; CNCF shook up leadership; and Liberty Mutual served up a serverless success.

“It’s a hot market, we have a hot product, and that automatically makes the company valuable,” said Bitglass CTO and co-founder Anurag Kahol.

2020 has been a doozy and we're only halfway through it.

With the world’s first standards-based mobile 5G networks now up and running for 18 months, the race is on to formally separate 5G as an independent offering.

Cisco revamped its security business under a new name and chief; Alibaba Cloud is set for a hiring spree; and COVID-19 claimed GSMA jobs.

"This is more than someone else's data center. This is a whole new paradigm," noted Liberty Mutual's Dave Anderson on serverless computing.

Hundreds of companies from various market segments have an edge computing offering or strategy, and yet relatively few have cracked the code and built a sustainable edge business.

VMware's buying spree continued with Datrium purchase; AT&T warned of COVID-19 threats; and Ekinops debunked SD-WAN myths.

Nvidia will provide virtual GPU support on SUSE's kernel-based virtual machine platform helping to accelerate artificial intelligence and data center workloads.

The Telco Security Alliance investigated threat actors taking advantage of the pandemic to launch campaigns against businesses and government agencies globally.