COO Jeff Clarke reportedly told staff during a quarterly meeting that workforce reductions won’t be limited to a particular team or division within the company.

“Besides FAANG, the cloud guys, we’re the largest, most interconnected security infrastructure on the internet,” said senior VP Joe DePalo.

This mirrors Oracle’s broader strategy to win public cloud customers by touting its “second-generation” infrastructure with built-in security that costs less than competitors — notably Amazon Web Services.

Security tools built into Microsoft products detected and stopped “the majority” of these attacks, said Microsoft’s Tom Burt.

“We want to pave the world with VMware Kubernetes,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said at the Citi Global Technology virtual conference.

“Imagine the first grade all happening on Zoom,” Pandey said. “It’s pretty extraordinary stuff. This pandemic is also a once-in-a-lifetime thing,”

The new Microsoft partnership comes about a month after Nutanix landed a similar service with Amazon Web Services.

The operator trialed quantum key distribution in the Washington, D.C. area, and it plans to be one of the first carriers to pilot the technology in the U.S.

Do we really need yet another threat-sharing ecosystem? Netskope says the short answer is yes, and what it offers is different.

DevOps and security teams can use VoltMesh to provide zero trust networking and security services at every distributed cluster but with centralized management, visibility, and policy control.

The Linux Foundation’s latest initiative taps open source data and analytics to tackle climate risk and investment opportunities.

AWS’ Samartha Chandrashekar says the technology improves container security in part by “including only the software needed to run containers.”

The partners say the call achieved a farthest-ever connection of 3.8 km and demonstrates how operators can use mmWave technology for fixed wireless access.

Companies that sponsor events can “demand the keynote speaker lineup not be an all-male panel. The so-called manel,” said Ensono’s Lin Classon.

CEO Pat Gelsinger said the U.S. Space Force made an “eight-figure commitment to the Tanzu platform” on VMware’s Q2 earnings call.

In addition to the three “critical security” partners, BT named Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco as its second-tier “strategic partners.”

The companies say a tier-one global service provider in Europe deployed Enterprise Service Automation as a managed service for enterprise customers.

“GreenLake services orders grew at a record 82% year over year,” CEO Antonio Neri said. “We believe this is faster than the overall growth of public cloud vendors.”

The vendors will integrate Snyk’s open source vulnerability detection into Trend Micro’s cloud security platform to help security operations teams better manage open source risk.

Cybereason hosted several of these election security tabletop exercises with the public and private sector to test resilience to possible disruptions.

A Microsoft survey found 58% of business leaders reported budget increases for cybersecurity because of the pandemic. And 82% plan to add security staff.

In addition to the critical WAN software bug, Cisco also patched two high-severity flaws and a whopping 21 medium-severity vulnerabilities.

“We invented what we believe to be the third socket in data centers,” said Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and co-founder of Fungible.

Diario uses a new type of artificial intelligence specifically trained to detect malware that generally evades traditional antivirus technology.