The company, best known for its networking hardware and monitoring technology, launched its SD-WAN service this week.

The company claims the platform alleviates performance monitoring challenges associated with API-heavy and internet-dependent applications.

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Datadog is set to run in the tech IPO pack after it filed a $100 million S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] on Friday.

Splunk today announced an agreement to acquire SignalFx, which provides real-time monitoring and metrics, $1.05 billion.

CenturyLink's network outage impacted as many as 22 million customers across 39 states, and at least 886 calls to 911 were not delivered, according to the FCC.

The deal follows three other VMware acquisitions announced since May, and this week the company said it’s also in talks to buy sister company Pivotal.

The company explained that enterprises have increasingly become reliant on the internet, but in many Asia-Pacific markets, internet performance can fluctuate wildly.

Adtran upgraded its Mosaic software-defined access suite with new features aimed at improving network visibility into the home with WiFi analytics and equipment monitoring from SmartRG.

Application security is changing the role of virtual administrators and expanding their job responsibilities as silos between InfoSec and the rest of the enterprise begin to converge.

Masergy's new product line bundles the company’s managed SD-WAN offerings with a slew of new security features like 24/7 monitoring.

Uhana's AI platform includes a stream processing engine that ingests subscriber-level network telemetry from the radio access network, the core network, and from over-the-top applications. It uses that data

The serverless platform was initially developed by IBM but now enters an increasingly complex environment.

As MPLS contracts expire the company will help agencies deploy VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN offering on their network.

The test deployed Microsoft’s cloud services at the edge, and makes the business case for AT&T’s 5G network, said Ofer HaCohen, director of AT&T Foundry in Israel.

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

Avi’s platform includes a software load balancer, web application firewall, analytics and monitoring, and a universal service mesh.

Despite the Versa deal, Riverbed plans to continue to offer its SteelConnect platform while leveraging its new partner for “larger scale enterprise deployments.”

The enterprise services provider plans to offer Aternity as a managed service within its Visibility-as-a-Service portfolio.

The vendor also updated its security policy management tool to support additional platforms — with AWS coming soon — and added cloud-based logging with analytics.

BT will use Juniper’s Contrail SDN, AppFormix monitoring software, and QFX Series ethernet switches.

The vendor has reportedly reached deals to buy container security startup Twistlock for between $450 million and $500 million and another Israeli startup for an estimated $50 million to

While Google’s analytics cred is well established, Chronicle is an interesting choice because it’s such a new player in security information and event management.

The Service Mesh Interface platform provides a standardized API that will allow for the ability to deal with traffic policy, traffic telemetry, and traffic management across different service mesh