The OpenStack Foundation launched its latest Victoria OpenStack release, which includes greater Kubernetes integration.

5 election cybersecurity lessons learned; Palo Alto Networks primed its Prisma Security platform; and Red Hat automated Kubernetes management.

The work will link Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform and its Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes platform to automate cloud-native scaling.

Microsoft won a court order to take control of Trickbot; T-Mobile said Kubernetes isn’t magic dust; and Cloudflare got SASE.

Nvidia took Arm off SoftBanks’ hands for $40 billion; Accenture bet $3 billion on Cloud First expansion; and Red Hat scored a Samsung 5G deal.

“Kubernetes isn’t necessarily magic dust. You’re not going to reduce your cost with Kubernetes if you don’t manage it correctly," T-Mobile's Thom McCann said.

The Department of Defense's cloud native-focused DevSecOps initiative has about 60 programs including jets, bombers, nuclear systems, and space systems.

Druva's new offering eliminates backup performance and cost problems, and provides visibility and insight into unstructured NAS data.

“We have been talking about the death of [infrastructure-as-a-service] for years now, and the reality is that it’s not going away anytime soon,” DigitalOcean's Apurva Joshi said.

Kasten’s K10 platform will be integrated into Veeam Backup and Replication, and Veeam will continue to sell K10 independently.

Cisco bought app security startup Portshift; VMware tackled smartNICs; and McAfee pulled the IPO trigger.

Cisco’s Liz Centoni said Portshift will help customers enable DevSecOps and build security constructs into cloud-native applications early in the lifecycle.

The project aims to provide a consistent management platform for distributed compute across multiple accelerators using smartNICs.

Who will VMware buy next? “If I really answered that, I’d have to shoot you,” CEO Pat Gelsinger said.

VMware bolsters SASE security with SaltStack buy; AT&T disaggregated routing; and Juniper jumped on Netrounds.

The AWS move is significant as both VMware’s Cloud on AWS and Tanzu have been significant interest drivers for the vendor.

The combination of Lightbits Labs’ NVMe-over-TCP with Intel products will provide an "optimized software and hardware" offering, the vendors said.

VMware integrated Menlo Security technologies into its SASE platform and started talking about its extended detection and response strategy today at VMworld.

“We're not quite there yet with all the pieces in the open RAN," said Ian Hood, chief technologist at Red Hat.

“Microsoft realizes the world is going hybrid, multi, and they want to be the guardian of these combined estate via their own control plane," said Gartner's Sid Nag.

Forrester Research ranked multi-cloud container development platforms from those three vendors ahead of five other vendors on the list, including VMware, D2iQ, and Mirantis.

Pure Storage's Matt Kixmoeller calls the combination of Pure Storage and Portworx "an opportunity to provide the most complete storage platform."

VMware drove Tanzu, Kubernetes deeper into its portfolio; 5G open RAN continued to struggle; and Verizon's 5G expansion will beat the next iPhone.

Adding MinIO object storage to the new vSAN platform gives VMware a healthy dose of the DevOps and open source appeal it needs to to win the Kubernetes wars.