IBM and Fortanix doubled down on confidential computing; Google Anthos built a bridge to AWS; and Arista baked AI into its WiFi software.

Ericsson closed Q1 with 86 commercial 5G contracts and 29 live 5G networks. It activated an additional two 5G networks this month.

“AT&T’s been through a lot of other crises before and each time you’ve seen us emerge in a stronger position and I’m confident we’ll do it again with this

Dynamic Threat Analysis protects containerized applications from image-based malware by automatically running images in a secure sandboxed environment.

The goal is to provide service providers using ONAP with more flexibility in creating intent-based policies while supporting automation use cases.

Cognitive WiFi provides visibility into WiFi users’ experience and initiates root cause analysis to make recommendations for resolution.

Juniper claims its technology will provide customers with a cost-effective alternative to MPLS, with greater visibility and reliability across the network.

Cisco, Google drove SD-WAN to the cloud; Commvault sued competitors Cohesity and Rubrik; and IBM reported a hard hit from pandemic in earnings report.

The Chinese juggernaut reported a 1.4% year-over-year increase in revenue during Q1 totaling almost $25.8 billion.

GIC and Equinix formed their first joint venture last July, also valued at more than $1 billion, to build European data centers for large cloud providers.

Customers “get no visibility from the public cloud because they treat it as a black box,” CEO Steve Mullaney said.

The companies aim to apply consistent service level agreements, security policies, and compliance data to applications and enterprise networks.

Google brought BeyondCorp zero-trust security to the masses; Alibaba injected $28B into the cloud; and Rackspace readied its $10B IPO.

The move would mean Rackspace’s return to the public market. The managed services company went private in 2016 in a $4.3 billion deal led by Apollo Global Management.

Regional operator GCI claims it has invested “tens of millions of dollars” in the Anchorage area to deploy 5G.

Google had originally planned to release the product later this year. But then the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increased demand for remote worker security.

The company’s strategy centers on four “fundamental pillars,” made up of WAN optimization, application performance, network visibility, and with a caveat SD-WAN.

Nokia faced a hostile takeover bid; COVID-19 related ransomware attacks spiked; and Red Hat stacked OpenStack onton ZTE's XCloud.

The hostile takeover bid follows a previous report that claimed the company was considering potential asset sales or mergers to improve its outlook.

The work is targeted at helping telecommunication operators deploy virtual network functions in support of 5G services.

The FortiGuard Labs team as recently as April 4 reported seeing an average of about 600 new coronavirus-related phishing campaigns per day.

Google slowed hiring and data center spend due to COVID-19; GSMA marched on with MWC; and Storage unicorn Vast Data scored $100M.

The rapid reversal is significant because the convergence of 5G, networks especially suited for IoT, and device proliferation was expected to bolster the technology before the pandemic hit.

The deal comes as Google Cloud makes an all-out push to support mobile network operators.