Cisco networking lessons learned during COVID-19; AT&T slashed more jobs; Microsoft topped cloud rankings; and tech wields its might in COVID-19 fight.

It all started with a blog post by Axonius’ Nathan Burke: Things will be weird in cybersecurity for a while.

Palo Alto paid $420 million for CloudGenix; Microsoft fumbled COVID-19 cloud statistic; and Cisco scored an SD-WAN win With NTT East.

A pool of operators, including AT&T, SK Telecom, Telefónica, and Vodafone have partnered on the effort and plan to make Azure Edge Zones available to customers later this year.

CloudGenix will form the second pillar of Palo Alto's emerging secure access service edge offering, which it announced last fall.

The operator tapped Cisco’s SD-WAN to “solve corporate challenges from workstyle reform, security measures, and labor shortage,” said NTT East SVP Naoki Shibutani.

The application performance monitoring service launches less than a year after the company acquired SignalFx and Omnition.

Nokia AVA 5G Cognitive Operations is designed to increase automation of network operations by maintaining service requirements and predicting challenges before they occur.

Microsoft cloud usage has spiked 775%; Google gifted $800 million to slow the spread of COVID-19; and security experts continue to battle COVID-19 cyberattacks.

IDC predicts server market revenues will decline 3.4% year over year to $88.6 billion in 2020 while external enterprise storage will slide 5.5%.

The operator plans to build 5G mobile edge computing centers in 12 locations across South Korea to fuel its push into the enterprise market.

“Everyone wants to forget the radios, and the radios are what makes wireless wireless," Steve Papa said.

In China’s case, being bigger than the rest plays to its advantage in positioning three Chinese firms in the top six ranking of regional cloud providers.

Threat researchers at Microsoft, ClearSky, and Okta are among the hundreds of security experts helping the medical community fight COVID-19 cyberattacks.

The vendor’s customers ask a lot of questions about business continuity lately.

SDxCentral will be keeping a running list of changes to trade shows and events tied to the COVID-19 virus.

Microsoft sunk its teeth deeper in 5G with Affirmed acquisition; Cisco Networking learned lessons during COVID-19; and Huawei boosted its R&D budget.

"The old way of growing the bandwidth of fiber is going to be increasingly difficult," said Dell’Oro analyst Jimmy Yu.

The spike in investment represents nearly a 41% increase from Huawei’s previous guidance for the year.

The deal adds a virtual evolved packet core element to Microsoft's already established cloud-based 5G moves.

Now that all Cisco employees work remotely, it sees more than 170,000 remote network connections daily across 96 countries and 498 cities.

The transponder, which is developed by Deutsche Telekom, NTT, Telefónica, Telia, and Vodafone, is designed to meet the needs of metro, core, and data center interconnect applications.

Both firms’ market reports echo similar findings of vendors spending billions to build or expand data centers to offer more cloud infrastructure services.

Release 16 and Release 17 have both been pushed back three months, despite claims from leadership earlier this month that the original deadlines would be met.