Dublin adds a broadband service blueprint and new 5G and cross-carrier virtual private network features.

Acacia, an existing Cisco supplier, makes high-speed optical interconnect products for cloud and service providers and data center operators.

Aviatrix CEO challenges Cisco, VMware; Cumulus loses its CTO and co-founder; and CloudGenix and Versa claim their SD-WANs trounce Cisco's.

Exabeam, Stellar Cyber, and Chronicle announced significant deals and product news this past week aimed at displacing the old guard and pulling a bigger piece of the lucrative $124

The container files containing the most vulnerabilities were typically the oldest files and “appear to be abandoned or are otherwise EOL’ed (end of life)," explained Kenna's Jerry Gamblin.

Database and cloud orchestration specialists seem to agree, as Atos extends work with Google Cloud to support Oracle databases and Oracle expands autonomous database capabilities.

The China-based vendor is still likely to face U.S. opposition over its involvement in 5G networks.

“There’s many companies that call themselves SD-WAN companies, but candidly they’re service providers leveraging somebody else’s tech,” says Versa Networks CEO Kelly Ahuja.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said he expects to compete the merger by this fall.

Despite touting the advanced nature of its factory and the fact that it will be “operational in early 2020,” Ericsson has not yet said where that factory will be

The bugs could allow attackers to take over affected devices, but Cisco says it’s “not aware of any malicious use” of either of the two vulnerabilities.

The U.K. systems integrator will use elements of ADVA's Ensemble software, gaining access to 50 VNFs including SD-WAN optimization.

The combined entity will count about 60,000 customers and bolster its No. 3 position in the global WiFi equipment market behind Cisco and HPE.

The updates support automated container security deployments that NeuVector CTO Gary Duan described as a “policy-as-a-code concept.”

The cloud giant kicked off its inaugural re:Inforce security conference today and announced the general availability of two new services: Control Tower and Security Hub.

In addition to tightly integrating its security and networking portfolios, including SD-WAN, Cisco plans to build more security features into its application performance monitoring tool.

BT, a United Kingdom-based telecom operator, says almost all of its current and prospective customers are inquiring about SD-WAN.

Joel Smith, who works with the Kubernetes Product Security Committee, described the latest bug as “high severity."

The company's software-defined storage platform is built on AWS, and late last year it partnered with the cloud giant to offer Druva Cloud Platform on AWS Snowball Edge.

SD-WAN capabilities can address networking and security between the branch and clouds or the data center, but it doesn’t necessarily address IoT devices and connections.

The latest update comes on the heels of Aqua's rival Twistlock being acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $410 million.

It’s based on technology that VMware acquired when it bought public cloud security startup CloudCoreo last year.

The SD-Branch platform uses its FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, FortiNAC Network Access Control, FortiSwitch, and FortiAP Access Points.

"Vendors want to ensure they can sell SD-WAN in conjunction with other services to maximize potential revenue deal sizes," said IHS Markit's Josh Bancroft.