“If we hadn't done virtualization, this would have been a multi-week, multi-month effort to bring in new capacity," Verizon's Srini Kalapala said.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company will spend $4 billion or more — all of its expected Q2 profit — on COVID-19 related costs.

“You need to be the owner of your own destiny and this disaggregation strategy needs to be looked at as a holistic end-to-end story,” said Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin.

VMware claimed SD-WAN dominance over Cisco; Cisco SD-WAN struck back against VMware; and Nokia stared down a hostile takeover bid.

“My advice to companies right now is to really think about what will happen next,” said Fortinet VP and Global Field CISO Jonathan Nguyen-Duy.

Nokia pinned its a $200M decline on COVID-19; Microsoft Cloud and stock surged; and Infovista gained hybrid-WAN capabilities.

Meanwhile the company only increased its virtual private network capacity 1.5 times to support all of its employees now working from home.

Meanwhile, Infoblox teams up with Ciena for universal CPE-based services, and Colt rolls out VoIP optimization and IPv6 support to SD-WAN

The company maintains that sales will increase in the second half of the year, but warned that the biggest challenges from the coronavirus outbreak will hit during the current

The cloud and computing giant did admit to a slowdown in business as the quarter came to an end, which resulted in a mixed outlook for the rest of

Google cloud revenue soared 52%; Cisco supported SONiC on 8000 series routers; and Microsoft extended Arc to Red Hat's OpenShift and Enterprise Linux.

The deal combines with NetApp's recent Talon acquisition to provide an integrated "modern workplace-type environment," said NetApp's Vikram Bhatia.

Juniper's supply-constrained earnings resulted in flat revenues of $998 million during the first quarter of 2020.

The project aims to create an open, software-defined access network for gigabit internet service.

While the global pandemic hit Google’s advertising revenue hard, it may have boosted sales in some other areas including Google Cloud and G-Suite.

“As a result of COVID-19, we’re getting a glimpse of what the future for the internet is today," said Cisco's Jonathan Davidson.

With NetQ 3.0, Cumulus adds lifecycle management capabilities to make it easier to roll out updates and configuration files.

Axios reports that D2iQ would be valued north of $250 million, but less than its $775 million valuation following its Series D round.

The IoT Video Security Fabric is available and in use by a municipal government in a “major European capital city,” Pluribus’ Jay Gill said.

The annual Flexera report found that public cloud adoption continues to surge as Azure bites at AWS' heels for dominance in the enterprise market.

The new Azure confidential computing service allows companies to process data in hardware-based secure enclaves called trusted execution environments.

The managed service is designed to make it easier for users of Amazon's various AI capabilities to implement human review and improve model accuracy.

Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft stepped up their Earth Day commitments, promising everything from 100% product return to a blockchain-powered, plastic currency.

According to the vendor's latest annual survey, 37% of respondents named complexity as the No. 1 SD-WAN challenge.