The China-based cloud giant linked the three-year investment plan to bolster support for services that have surged in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Google had originally planned to release the product later this year. But then the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increased demand for remote worker security.

COVID-19 may kill the data center, or at the very least forever change storage as we know it, says Andres Rodriguez, co-founder of Nasuni.

The company’s strategy centers on four “fundamental pillars,” made up of WAN optimization, application performance, network visibility, and with a caveat SD-WAN.

Nokia faced a hostile takeover bid; COVID-19 related ransomware attacks spiked; and Red Hat stacked OpenStack onton ZTE's XCloud.

“Notable spikes in attacks can also be correlated to key days in the COVID-19 news cycle,” wrote VMware Cabon Black threat researchers Patrick Upatham and Jim Treinen.

The FortiGuard Labs team as recently as April 4 reported seeing an average of about 600 new coronavirus-related phishing campaigns per day.

Google slowed hiring and data center spend due to COVID-19; GSMA marched on with MWC; and Storage unicorn Vast Data scored $100M.

Barcelona will now host the event through 2024. The Catalonia region has reported nearly 7,100 deaths tied to the COVID-19 virus outbreak.

“We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for the remainder of 2020,” Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees.

The rapid reversal is significant because the convergence of 5G, networks especially suited for IoT, and device proliferation was expected to bolster the technology before the pandemic hit.

The deal comes as Google Cloud makes an all-out push to support mobile network operators.

“Vast Data now has a $140 million war chest that we will spend like camels, not like unicorns,” co-founder Jeff Denworth said.

Awake Security displaced Cisco; Ericsson beat out 5G rivals; and Viptela CEO launched multi-cloud startup Alkira.

The deal will see Nuage pair its SD-WAN 2.0 offering with Asavie’s SD Edge platform announced last week.

Earlier this year Awake partnered with Google Cloud, which extended its network traffic analysis across all three major cloud providers.

Capex spending on 5G network deployments will decline 10% globally this year, but those activities will pick up next year, according to ABI Research.

Cisco paved Rakuten's virtual roaming road; VMware bolstered its hybrid cloud with Kubernetes products; and ARM joined the O-RAN alliance.

Joining the alliance will speed Arm's mission to develop open, interoperable, and cloud-native infrastructure for 5G networks, said Arm's Panch Chandrasekaran.

The Business Resiliency Program aims to provide organizations economically impacted by the pandemic with the tools and equipment they need to keep their businesses running.

Palo Alto paid $420M for CloudGenix; Microsoft acquired Affirmed; AWS pledged $20 million to COVID-19 testing; plus the latest VC/M&A news from March.

“In the next three years economic forces will drive operators to go to open RAN," said Altiostar CEO Ashraf Dahod.

Cisco pledged to preserve jobs; AWS added direct storage to ECS, Fargate; and SAP prepped for COVID-19 related uncertainty in early look at its Q1 performance.

Gartner recommends all cloud security vendors invest in cloud security posture management.