HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; Verizon grabbed Google Cloud for its multi-cloud strategy; and Rackspace filed for an IPO.

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

Nvidia dethroned Intel in the US chip market; Verizon withheld 5G vendor names; and Google recommitted to CNCF after Istio snub.

Juniper jumped into SASE with Connected Security; Google irked IBM with Istio; and Nokia dove into the data center market.

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

Google beat cloud rivals, won a deal with Deutsche Bank; Samsung pledged 5G vRAN by fall; and VMware purchased True Visibility to bolster analytics suite.

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

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

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

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.

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

IBM Security pushed ransomware playbooks; Dish bought Boost Mobile; and Silver Peak tapped Kentik to tackle SD-WAN visibility.

Cisco rolled out its SASE ambitions; Verizon teased its forthcoming DSS launch for nationwide 5G; and cryptominers attacked Azure.

Verizon, Microsoft joined Facebook revolt; Cisco rolled out networking for ‘new edge;' and Dish tapped Fujitsu, Altiostar for 5G network.

Diamanti Spektra’s reaches on-premises and across public cloud to deploy, replicate, and migrate stateful applications.

Nokia won a $450M 5G deal with Taiwan Mobile; Facebook joined the Confidential Computing Group; and cryptojackers mined for Monero.

HPE rolled out a new software strategy and software brand, Ezmeral; AWS sweetened the no-code pot; and VMware Tanzu gained data protection.

Nebulon's cloud-defined storage method provides on-premises, server-based data storage using customers' server hardware.

VMware made a SASE jump; Cisco expanded its open RAN trial with Telenor; and Nokia glided into network slicing.

This product launch adds the PowerFlex family, previously known as VxFlex, to the Dell EMC Power portfolio.

HPE CEO talked racism, COVID-19, and edge-to-cloud strategy; Dell (again) mulled VMware’s future; and John Chambers shared pandemic advice.

All-flash competitors such as Pure Storage, Dell EMC, and NetApp need somewhere between 12 to 14 drives at $2,000 a pop to get the same performance that StorONE does

HPE challenged VMware, IBM Red Hat with Ezmeral; Nokia readied an aggressive Open RAN portfolio; and Arm elbowed Intel, AMD for new ground.