“Obviously we work in a much more distributed environment," HPE CEO Antonio Neri said. "That's why we believe our Aruba business is a digital transformation engine for our customers."

VMware's executive search continued; Dell Tech asserted unique strengths for 5G, edge; and SDxCentral's 2-minute Weekly Wrap podcast.

Rajiv Ramaswami is the center of Nutanix vs. VMware; Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile US 5G efforts under pressure; and Nvidia rakes in revenues.

While gaming continues to be Nvidia's core revenue driver, the company is rapidly expanding its product portfolio into the data center and network.

On the company's Q2 earnings call, Ramaswami touted a “multi-million-dollar, one-year subscription deal” with a top financial services company to provide more than 90,000 virtual desktops.

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora kicked off his company’s Q2 earnings call by discussing the SolarWinds attack.

Arista closed a strong Q4; Check Point moved into cloud-native app protection; and IBM, Linux Foundation expanded Call for Code for Racial Justice.

Coming out of a turbulent year, Arista is targeting revenues of $630 million to $650 million in the first quarter of 2021.

Overall during Q2, Cisco’s total revenue remained flat at $11.96 billion with product revenue down 1% to $8.57 billion and service revenue up 2% to $3.39 billion.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumped to Intel; SAP snagged a Microsoft cloud executive, and SoftBank shook up its executive ranks.

Fortinet's CEO staked out SD-WAN domination; T-Mobile put the 5G screws to Verizon, AT&T: and RSA added AI threat hunting to NetWitness.

The vendor also added more than 300 new features to its FortiOS operating system including firewall-based zero trust network access.

Bezos will assume an executive role on Amazon's board and focus his attention on new products and initiatives.

Juniper carried its momentum forward into Q4 posting revenues of $1.22 billion, up 1.7% year over year.

AMD's revenues rose more than 50% during the final quarter of 2020 helped along by strong demand for Ryzen and EPYC processors.

“It was a record quarter, driven by our commercial cloud, which surpassed $16 billion in revenue, up 34% year over year,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.

If anyone can turn Intel's fortunes around it's Pat Gelsinger, said CCS Insight's Glenn O'Donnell.

Incoming Intel boss Pat Gelsinger expressed confidence that the majority of Intel's 2023 product line would be built using its 7-nanometer process, despite delays.

Intel CEO Bob Swan isn't afraid to slaughter the sacred cow and open production to external fabs, CCS Insight analyst Wayne Lam said.

Juniper Networks acquired Apstra; Cisco bought IMImobile, Slido to boost Webex; Microsoft security execs scored $100 million, launched Wiz.

The world’s biggest technology vendors’ battles boiled over in 2020, and this year the feuds stretched from the clouds to court and even to a galaxy far, far away.

Published reports indicated the IPO could value Qualtrics at more than $14 billion.

Tens of thousands of jobs were cut this year across the SDN and cloud ecosystem as vendors grappled with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cisco workers are ‘anxious’ about job cuts; Ciena shared its lessons learned rom Q4; and Orange helped Siemens hit 80% SD-WAN migration.