Intel CEO Bob Swan identified four key areas that he argued would enrich the lives of Americans and protect the interests of U.S. technology companies.

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

Matrixx’s Digital Commerce platform is a converged charging and commerce platform with customers including Dish Network, Swisscom, Orange, and Three.

The partnership will see Telus deploy a variety of Nokia technologies in order to better manage its network and eliminate truck rolls.

Dish tapped Mavenir for 5G messaging, chatbots; Google scored ABB win; and Finther Tecnologica joined forces with 128 Technology.

“I would like the industry to come to some consensus about the terminology,” Microsoft's Cindy Xing said.

The fledgling greenfield operator plans to deploy Mavenir's rich communications service and messaging as a service platforms on its emerging 5G network.

This customer win comes about a month after Nokia said it will move its on-premises IT infrastructure to Google Cloud.

Nutanix report found it's no longer cost savings driving hybrid cloud adoption, but rather the demand for flexibility to run workloads anywhere.

Nvidia scored record Q3 revenues; VMware's enterprise blockchain platform landed; and FireEye scored $400 million.

The partnership will see the service provider deploy 128 Technology's Session Smart SD-WAN platform across its network to address application performance challenges.

“Mainly what I see is a lot of marketing around it and less execution,” said Solo.io CEO Idit Levine of the service mesh space.

"We had to readjust our lives to work from home, learn from home, and all of a sudden we had to adapt very quickly to that,” AT&T's Andre Fuetsch

Respond developed a cloud-native extended detection and response engine that uses artificial intelligence to automate security alert investigation.

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.

The notion that "this millimeter-wave thing is going to deliver a phone in your hand wherever you go with multi-gigabit speed, it’s mythical,” T-Mobile's Neville Ray said.

While AWS is partnering with traditional firewall providers such as Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet on its AWS Network Firewall, it also competes against these vendors.

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

"We’re not prioritizing one over the other. We’re building a platform that allows us to serve each of those segments concurrently, and that’s really important," Dish's Stephen Bye said.

Cloud-based secure access service edge platforms aren't a perfect fit for every enterprise, Cisco's Ravi Chandrasekaran said.

Masergy's managed SASE offering is built around a combination of Fortinet SD-WAN and security, BitGlass CASB, and its own internally developed tools

“Enterprises won’t use 5G functions unless they have confidence that they have enterprise-grade security, visibility, and remediation,” Palo Alto Networks SVP Anand Oswal said.

Nokia warned of a COVID-19 related traffic spike; Cato claims unicorn status; and EdgeQ snagged $51M in funding for 5G and AI modem work.