In addition to spending billions of dollars buying companies in the lead up to VMworld next week, VMware also updated its Cloud Provider Platform.

VMware said it will buy Pivotal in a deal valued at $2.7 billion and security company Carbon Black in a deal valued at $2.1 billion.

The edge internet economy will surpass $4.1 trillion by 2030, according to a study by Chetan Sharma Consulting and commissioned by AlefEdge.

Veritas announced availability of its Enterprise Data Services Platform for VMware environments running on-premises, on devices, or in any of the major public clouds.

Big Switch says its software-defined networking products are “ideally suited” for cloud providers’ on-premises plays such as AWS Outposts.

The company claims the integration will provide remote offices around the world secure, high-speed access to Microsoft's cloud services.

VMware bought Intrinsic, an application security startup, in its fifth acquisition in three months, adding serverless security to its lineup.

Revenue attributed to network equipment and services is expected to improve following a five-year period of contraction, according to a new forecast from Dell’Oro Group.

Druva added two new cloud services: a multi-tier intelligent data storage technology for AWS and disaster recovery for enterprise workloads.

Aryaka's third-annual report surveyed 795 IT and network practitioners working for companies ranging from less than 1,000 employees to more than 10,000.

Huawei earned itself another narrow and temporary reprieve from a blanket ban against doing business with U.S. companies.

Oracle accuses CryptoOracle of unfair business practices, cybersquatting and infringing on and diluting its trademark.

It also directly competes against CDN firms like Akamai, Limelight, and Fastly, which went public in May.

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.

Kasten's flagship cloud-native data management product K10 enables enterprises to run stateful applications on Kubernetes.

These include software engineers, managers, and technical leaders and follow 462 layoffs last November.

Dell Technologies and AT&T also plan to speed up the release of Airship 2.0, which is expected to be released in the first half of 2020.

Rubrik released Andes 5.1, expanding its reach to include data governance, disaster recovery orchestration, and continuous data protection with Polaris Sonar and Polaris AppFlow.

Cisco’s China revenue dropped 25% on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter.

The cloud provider also added second-generation Intel Xeon scalable processor virtual machines for general-purpose workloads including enterprise applications.

Mesosphere's recent name change and operational focus follows similar moves by Docker Inc., Pivotal Software, and IBM.

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.

While its edge services today tend to be more “on a bespoke basis,” by 2020 “we expect a huge influx of ready-to-go capacity,” says CenturyLink’s Dave Shacochis.

The startup, founded by former VMware and Nutanix execs, built a backup service on Amazon Web Services to leverage the capabilities of the public cloud.