As Ciena looks to put the pandemic behind it, the company is leaning on its 800 Gb/s optics and upcoming pluggables to grow its market share.

“To me, it’s just silly for those of us who have the financial wherewithal to absorb this, for us to add to the problem,” CEO Chuck Robbins said in

Cisco bought IMImobile, Slido to boost Webex; Juniper Networks acquires Apstra; and McAfee put $1 Trillion price tag on cybercrime.

“Last month alone, Webex had nearly 600 million participants, almost double the number we had in March,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said during his company’s Q1 fiscal 2021 earnings

IBM slashed 10,000 jobs, 20% of its European workforce; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes from November.

Fortinet, AWS added fuel to fire(walls); VMware, Micro Focus topped Forrester’s Hybrid Cloud Management wave; and SDxCentral's weekly wrap podcast.

The data warehousing vendor has already renegotiated cloud storage deals with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.

Intel faces increased pressure from rival AMD and a swath of Arm-based server chips, while Nvidia, once unchallenged in the data center GPU space, has a challenger in AMD.

Dell Technologies is "cautiously optimistic about the potential for recovery post-pandemic related pressures," CFO Tom Sweet said.

During Q3, subscription and SaaS revenue hit $676 million, an increase of 44% year over year, representing 24% of VMware’s total revenue.

Intel CEO Bob Swan identified four key areas that he argued would enrich the lives of Americans and protect the interests of U.S. technology companies.

“Q1 was a very good quarter positioning us well for the rest of 2021,” CEO Dheeraj Pandey said. “The headline is that we outperformed across all of our key

“Enterprises won’t use 5G functions unless they have confidence that they have enterprise-grade security, visibility, and remediation,” Palo Alto Networks SVP Anand Oswal said.

Cisco revenues dropped but stock on the rise; SonicWall SASE tapped Perimeter 81 ZTNA; and Huawei touted 5.5G.

On the Q1 earnings call with investors, CEO Chuck Robbins didn’t mention the elephant ushered into the room by the COVID-19 pandemic: massive job cuts.

Dish’s 5G dreams came true, DT, SK Telecom inked a 5G joint venture; and according to Aryaka's CEO, managed SASE is where it's at.

Cisco slashed its workforce by 9% contradicting a previous pledge; OpenStack Foundation rebranded; and Nokia underwent major reorganization.

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen, as he reflexively does during earnings calls, provided analysts and investors with almost equal doses of bravado and humility.

“We provide more geographic coverage right now than AT&T and Verizon combined on 5G. To be more precise, our 5G coverage is double AT&T and 3.5 times Verizon’s," CEO

Cisco has long dominated the campus networking market, and Arista’s been gunning for its rival since it entered campus switching.

Amazon Cloud stalled while Google gained market share; Nokia underwent major reorganization; and Fortinet's earnings were unfazed by COVID-19.

While non-FortiGate appliance revenues were up 27% year over year in Q3, analysts warn that more than 75% of the company's revenues are rooted in firewalls.

Microsoft’s cloud sales continued to be a bright spot during the pandemic as revenue from Azure grew 48% year over year during the first quarter of its fiscal 2021.

The acquisition better positions AMD to compete against rival chipmaker Intel in CPUs and FPGAs.