Ericsson anticipates the pandemic to drive 5G; McAfee, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks tracked COVID-19 cyberattacks; and Rakuten raged toward 5G launch.

Three reports show cyberattacks continue to mutate along with COVID-19, and they indicate that businesses aren’t as secure as they think.

The Swedish vendor raised its prediction for 5G subscriptions from 2.6 billion to 2.8 billion by 2025, adding that some gains will also occur before the end of 2020.

Nokia faced a hostile takeover bid; Google eyeing a D2iQ purchase; T-Mobile to slash $30M in cloud costs with Kubernetes; plus the latest VC/M&A news from April.

Despite the calamity brought on by COVID-19, Dish still plans to launch 5G service in a single market with a network core before the year ends.

Steven Wood, Cisco’s principal engineer of enterprise architectures and SD-WAN, made the statement as part of this week’s ONUG Virtual Live conference.

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance alone has more than 1 million deployments globally.

Fortinet Q1 earnings remained strong amidst pandemic; Microsoft eyed a $170M security buy; and T-Mobile US forecasted a $667M COVID-19 hit.

T-Mobile US expanded its 5G network running on 600 MHz spectrum by activating 1,600 sites during the quarter and an additional 1,000 sites in April.

The IoT security startup’s agentless software continuously monitors unmanaged devices across IT and OT environments.

Server shipments reached 3.3 million during the first quarter of 2020, driven by heightened demand from hyperscale and cloud providers in response to the pandemic.

In addition to reporting earnings, the company also announced a new switch abstraction interface product for customers deploying SONiC software on Arista’s switching platform.

"Our network teams both kept the current systems running smoothly and have continued to deliver on our long-term innovation strategy," AT&T's Scott Mair said.

The new Data Hub product gives enterprises access to Nvidia’s AI infrastructure inside Digital Realty’s colocation facilities.

Nutanix furloughed 25% of its workforce; IBM targeted 5G and edge deployments; and Microsoft Azure Sentinel scored a MDR win.

The new storage systems come with built-in vSphere integration enabling VMware virtualized workloads to run directly on PowerStore.

The group has support from seven operators and 24 vendors, though it's noticeably lacking support from the three largest RAN vendors.

The bulk of these employees (1,434) work at Nutanix’s headquarters in San Jose, California. Another 11 are in San Francisco, 12 in San Mateo, and eight in Redding.

“Our competitors edge offerings are more limited and focused on being an on-ramp into their public clouds," said IBM Cloud CTO Hillery Hunter.

With the Series A round, in addition to $6.5 million in seed funding, Orca plans to double its team and total business by the end of 2020.

Cisco’s latest security report, based on a survey of almost 500 SMBs, aims to debunk myths about smaller companies’ security posture and threats.

AT&T selected Stankey as its new CEO; Google to slow hiring; Cisco vowed no job cuts; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Palo Alto Networks purchased CloudGenix at the end of March for $420 million in a bid to bolster its Prisma Access offering.

AWS topped $10 billion in Q1; Cisco squashed yet another SD-WAN bug; and Fortinet CISO talked ‘new normal’ needs for cloud security.