Telia Carrier taps a Cisco network first; Intel ditches Nervana for Habana; and IBM CTO predicts edge will implode without open source.

Only 17% of companies are effectively stopping cyberattacks and fixing breaches fast enough to reduce their impact.

Silver Peak's SD-WAN will join iomart's managed service portfolio, while Fortinet's FortiWeb will power Continent 8's WAF.

NSA ranked cloud security risks; Nuage CEO said SD-WAN is multi-faceted; and TPx tapped Cisco Meraki SD-WAN.

Scytale’s founders included engineers from Amazon Web Services, Duo Security (now owned by Cisco), Google, Okta, PagerDuty, and Splunk.

Arista Networks buys Big Switch; VMware loses $237M patent infringement lawsuit; and Nokia cuts 180 jobs with more to come.

SD-WAN's purpose is changing. It's no longer about just shifting traffic off of MPLS networks, said Nuage CEO Sunil Khandekar.

Misconfiguration, a widespread threat that requires a low level of sophistication, tops the list.

The EU won't ban or limit Huawei from participating in 5G build outs. Instead, lingering national security questions will be left up to member nations.

WE Connect Insights gathers and evaluates data to help users make better-informed decisions about application prioritization, bandwidth allocations, and upgrades.

Cisco joined the on-premises Kubernetes party; the U.K. banned Huawei from 5G core networks; and Apstra added time travel to IBN.

Cloud revenue saw strong growth for the third consecutive quarter and was up 18% year over year.

The ban basically limits the use of Huawei equipment to the network RAN, and even then to just 35% of a total 5G build.

The SD-WAN vendor is expanding into the Japanese market with the launch of SoftBank's SD-WAN Type X product line.

The company is the latest secure access service edge vendor to add AI-powered data analysis to its portfolio.

The 2020 data privacy study shows tangible, financial benefits in being more than a minimally compliant company.

Sprint’s debt got uglier; Cisco fused IT, OT with IoT security architecture; and Altiostar linked up with NEC to crack the 5G vRAN market.

Also, CMC, Neutrona combine their SD-WAN resources; and Criterion Networks launches an SD-WAN testbed for MSPs.

“The network has expanded to the operational side of the business because of digitization,” said IoT Director Joe Malenfant.

Looking ahead to 2020, “our top priority is becoming the unquestioned leader" in cloud-based network detection and response, CEO Arif Kareem said.

In the past three weeks, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, and Citrix have announced a slew of vulnerabilities as the companies have scrambled to lock down their product lines.

Google's Cloud Secret Manager addresses security concerns as the rise of multi-cloud continues complicating identity and access controls.

“We feel like the technology is ready but there’s more features to make it more broadly attractive, and that's what we're doing with the money,” said co-founder Mark Hinkle.

VMware bought AIOps vendor Nyansa; Red Hat was integral to IBM's Q4 success; and Vapor IO scored $90M investment.