As chipmakers scramble to limit the effect of COVID-19 on supply chains, IDC analysts reported an 80% likelihood the semiconductor market would contract in 2020.

In an SEC filing, VMware said COVID-19 posed a risk to its “business operations, financial performance, results of operations, and stock price.”

The vendor’s customers ask a lot of questions about business continuity lately.

SDxCentral will be keeping a running list of changes to trade shows and events tied to the COVID-19 virus.

Microsoft sunk its teeth deeper in 5G with Affirmed acquisition; Cisco Networking learned lessons during COVID-19; and Huawei boosted its R&D budget.

Now that all Cisco employees work remotely, it sees more than 170,000 remote network connections daily across 96 countries and 498 cities.

Both firms’ market reports echo similar findings of vendors spending billions to build or expand data centers to offer more cloud infrastructure services.

Intel warned of financial hit; Attackers exploited remote-code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft bug; and Akamai got SASE.

There remains "considerable uncertainty" as to how measures taken by world governments to control the spread of COVID-19 could affect Intel's operations.

The platform is based on the Knative project, which continues to be a lightning rod of controversy in the serverless ecosystem.

Vendors that are projecting stability amid unprecedented calamity and uncertainty face bottlenecks in access, production, and distribution.

The vendor today added secure web gateways to its security platform as it moves toward a SASE architecture for delivering security at the edge.

Cisco pledged $225 million as IBM took charge of White House HPC group as big tech continues to battle COVID-19.

The vendor said the SASE architecture promises less complexity, shorter deployment times, improved security, and better performance at scale.

This rapid shift in usage, behavior, and daily activity around the world is causing “unprecedented growth in global internet traffic,” according to Nokia Deepfield.

This includes $8 million in cash, $210 million in products, and up to $5 million in grants and funds matching Cisco employees’ donations to nonprofits.

The IBM-led group includes Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

AWS pledged $20 million to COVID-19 testing; Microsoft topped cloud rankings; and Cisco donated OpenRoaming as WiFi standard.

While the AWS initiative will initially focus on COVID-19, AWS says it “will also consider other infectious disease diagnostic projects” in the future.

The equipment provides an environment on which to run virtual network functions like those for SD-WAN.

The report lauded those two giants for their extensive services and support, which continues to dominate smaller players like Google, IBM, Oracle, and Alibaba.

OpenRoaming, which has been developed and managed by Cisco for two years, is built on standards and guidelines developed by the WBA and Wi-Fi Alliance.

Security company Critical Start and its threat hunters are among the global contributors running Folding@home workloads.

"We can now confidently say that the network is resilient, performant, secure, and ready for broad adoption," said Storj Labs CEO Ben Golub.