T-Mobile added 1,000 customer support roles, Verizon plans to hire 1,800 broadband technicians and Ciena promoted a couple of executives.

The layoffs could affect more than 500 mostly-U.S. employees, although Splunk CEO Gary Steele noted that they were not a direct result of the Cisco acquisition.

The two companies didn't disclose the exact financial details of the transaction, but the deal is reportedly to be valued at over $300 million.

In 2024, "we expect continued application and API growth, fueled by automation efforts and new use cases, including generative AI," said CEO Locoh-Donou.

CEO Mike Sievert also stated the carrier's private wireless business "is quietly serving customers."

Dish Network now has until April 1, 2024, (yep, April Fools' Day) to decide on buying spectrum from T-Mobile US.

Despite macroeconomic struggles, Okta's report showed 80% of respondents reported their zero-trust budgets had increased over the past year.

The move also comes at the tail end of what was a previous three-year turnaround program.

Product Manager Annika Garbers touted the vendor's approach meets the market demand for simplicity, cost-effectiveness and unified management.

The vendor will continue supporting third-party SD-WAN products for multivendor secure access service edge, Check Point VP Amit Bareket said.

The announcement comes on the back of the carrier slashing thousands of back-office and technology roles.

Former Palo Alto Networks staffers start their own company with $51M seed money, aim to use process mining to help improve security outcomes.

The trio headlined a complex proof of concept that could help multinational enterprises seamlessly connect and manage disparate data and networks.

The vendor is targeting a subsidiary initial public offering for the IoT business in the first half of the next fiscal year.

For the second month in a row, a Cisco acquisition topped the list of Money Moves. Databricks also made a splash.

The $150,000 fine was the first “space debris enforcement action” from the Federal Communications Commission.

Ilan Eframian's switch to Comcast was influenced by the carrier's scale; Zac Smith stepped down as head of Open19.

Shlomo Kramer said many network security vendors are struggling with the transition from appliance form factor to the cloud-centric approach of SASE.

IBM expands NS1 and offers its features as a software-as-a-service product to help enterprises solve the challenge of DNS optimization at scale.

The two companies share similar visions of cybersecurity and observability convergence even before the potential deal, said Gartner's Gregg Siegfried.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said Splunk’s security, observability and artificial intelligence capabilities “complement” Cisco’s existing portfolio.

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the integration gives the vendor “one of the most complete cloud security offerings on the planet.”

CEO Shlomo Kramer said this record-breaking funding round showed investors’ confidence in Cato’s leadership in the single-vendor SASE market.

This user interface unification eliminates the need for users to toggle between separate interfaces or products, Google Cloud's Chris Corde touted.