Cisco raised eyebrows with its seemingly endless appetite for smaller companies; Nokia fried French jobs; and Microsoft acquired CyberX.

AT&T clarified its nationwide 5G timeline; Microsoft bought ADRM; and Verizon teased of its forthcoming DSS launch for Nationwide 5G.

Veeam kicked off VeeamON 2020 and its "Act II” with a trove of products for Microsoft Teams, AWS, and NetApp OnTap to accelerate customers’ hybrid experience.

Verizon tapped Cisco for a NFV services push; HPE's Neri contracted COVID-19; and Cisco updated its IBN portfolio for full stack automation.

AT&T and T-Mobile US are set to slash thousands of jobs; VMware sparked a SASE Debate; and Cisco used technology to fight the pandemic and racism.

Cisco revamped its security biz with new chief, name, and platform; Dell structured unstructured data; and HPE expanded Its 5G, edge push.

Google Cloud added a new high-performance computing tool to the therapeutics research arsenal with the beta launch of its Filestore High Scale.

In addition to the new unstructured data storage systems, Dell unveiled intelligent data software called DataIQ.

IBM bought cloud security startup Spanugo; Nokia added Broadcom 5G chips to its ReefShark portfolio; and GSMA cancelled MWC LA.

Cisco paid $1 billion for ThousandEyes; Microsoft's buying spree continued with Metaswitch acquisition; and Nvidia bought Cumulus.

Cryptominers attacked Azure; Amazons custom Graviton2 chips landed in in AWS EC2; and SDxCentral's weekly wrap podcast.

Amazon said it wouldn't sell facial recognition to police; Nokia mellowed its 5G outlook for 2020; and Google tapped Telefónica for edge expansion.

Coronavirus claimed 200 GSMA jobs; IBM Cloud suffered a massive outage; and Versa helped service providers get SASE.

Longhorn complements Kubernetes and provides a storage overlay that virtualizes and enhances underlying storage infrastructure, said Rancher Labs CEO.

IBM quit the facial recognition business; A10, Dell teamed up on application delivery; and Alibaba Cloud went on a hiring spree.

AT&T activated the first US dynamic spectrum sharing deployment; Ericsson burned cash on China 5G deals; and 6G entered the conversation.

Nutanix furloughed 25% of its workforce, saying COVID-19 is to blame; SAP cloud CFO jumped ship; and IBM slashed thousands of jobs.

VMware lassoed Lastline to boost security NDR; How to train employees not to fall for phishing attacks; and Cisco squashed dozens of IOS bugs.

VMware’s Gelsinger rode a tech, software, cloud high; NetApp nabbed Spot; and the coronavirus clobbered SD-WAN revenue growth.

SDxCentral condemned the murder of George Floyd; Rakuten tapped NEC for 5G core; and MEF boasted ethernet deployments.

Cisco Live postposed in light of recent events; Dell, VMware supercharged AI; and Chipmakers lobbied for $37B in aid for US fabs.

Fear not slow migrators, legacy technologies are not obsolete – yet.

Dell and Nutanix execs shared their visions of a new normal; Equinix expanded into Canada; COVID-19's hit on the SD-WAN supply chain.

Cisco paid $1 billion for ThousandEyes; VMware posted stronger-than-expected Q1 results; and Zscaler bought Edgewise Networks.