The shift to remote work has put an emphasis on services like Office 365, but these tools are often limited by the network, said Riverbed's Dante Malagrino.

Forcepoint's SASE offering embraces a data-centric philosophy that aims to protect data where users are accessing it.

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CEO Hans Vestberg explained that larger enterprises were seeing this as a “time to digitize” their operations including further adoption of “SD-WAN, video conferencing, and mobile edge computing.”

Verizon, Microsoft linked up on IoT tools; HPE launched a 5G lab; and Azure cloud growth cooled off despite posting strong revenues.

“Now that we’re all much more aware of the implication of the pandemic, we have to realize that a cyber pandemic can expand much faster than a biological one,”

The COVID-19 crisis effectively cost the company $2.8 billion in revenue during the quarter.

Check Point's security suite fills many of the holes in Aryaka's SASE stack.

“While I am not yet concerned with the declining Azure numbers as the revenue base is growing, it's something to keep our eyes on,” noted analyst Patrick Moorhead.

Prospects in the IoT market, while growing, remain dubious and the COVID-19 crisis has extended its delayed insurgence.

The semiconductor vendor is making ASICs more accessible by allowing customers to add their intellectual property to existing chips or integrate Marvell's technologies into their designs.

The initial focus of the lab will be to “bring innovation to the previously monolithic cellular network core,” according to HPE.

"We were supposed to have a national spectrum policy plan thinking about 5G. It hasn't come out yet, and that was due last April," FCC's Jessica Rosenworcel said.

Cisco’s Acacia deal stalled; Oracle's sent its SD-WAN orchestrator flying to the multi-cloud; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

The company's cloud-based SD-WAN orchestrator eliminates the need for management-intensive on-premises equipment and enables multi-cloud deployments.

Acacia, which makes high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, plays a major role in Cisco’s 5G strategy.

Fortinet says it’s been doing SASE before Gartner coined the buzzy phrase. “That’s something we term security-driven networking,” CMO John Maddison said.

Masergy jumps into SASE; Palo Alto Networks beats Cisco for security revenue crown; and Nokia ‘downscaled’ its standalone 5G.

In the short time since the company was founded, it has carved out a 23% stake in a market dominated by Broadcom.

The vendor, which has more than 180 private wireless networks deployed to date, is assembling specialized features in a smaller software stack for enterprises.

The service provider's SASE offering joins SD-WAN capabilities from Fortinet with an in-house security and analytics platform.

However, Fortinet’s revenue growth in the second half of 2019 and first quarter of 2020 actually outpaced Palo Alto Networks.

5G got squashed by COVID-19; Cloudflare config at fault for killing the internet; and Linux Foundation corralled projects for COVID-19 fight.

Friday's outage was not the result of some nefarious group but rather the consequence of a well-intentioned effort to clear network congestion.