AWS, Microsoft, and Google ate up most of the Q2 cloud market; McAfee built its own ZTNA; and Alkira’s Cloud Services Exchange platform is now available.

The launch continues the vendor's Connected Security strategy that involves enforcing security policies at every connection point across the network: switches, firewalls, routers, public and private cloud, and endpoints.

The move comes about four months after McAfee announced integrations with three ZTNA vendors, Appgate, Axis Security, and TransientX, so it could add this key technology to its SASE

Fortinet reports continued growth in Q2; AWS sales hit $14.8B in a 37% year over year jump; and T-Mobile's low-band 5G network now covers 305 million people.

Fortinet continued to see robust revenue growth in the second quarter, driven by strong demand across both its appliance and software offerings.

Google Cloud revenue hits $4.6B in Q2; Microsoft Azure revenue grew 51% year over year; and AMD doubled its Q2 revenue.

The bottom line is that the companies that adopted some level of zero trust are in a better position to deal with data breaches, IBM Security's Limor Kessem said.

CISOs now have to “think about how they bring more security to where their people are, instead of moving their people to where the security is,” Cisco’s Dug Song

Verizon has the first virtualized 5G radio access network equipment; IBM released its Q2 financial results; and Tom Corn joined Open Systems as CPO.

CloudKnox marks Microsoft’s third security startup acquisition in two months. Last week it reportedly paid $500 million for RiskIQ.

Illumio updated its segmentation platform with new zero-trust automation features; Xilinx’s Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) got a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) upgrade; and executives at AT&T and Cisco

'Just because you turn off the lights doesn’t mean the cockroaches aren’t there. You just can’t see them,' Cisco's Bob Everson said

“People need small, incremental wins on that journey of building zero trust into their environment,” Illumio CTO and co-founder PJ Kirner said.

Microsoft buys ReFirm Labs for an IoT security boost; Illumio reaches a $2.75 billion valuation; and other M&A and VC news from June 2021.

“There is hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into this illicit marketplace right now and, unfortunately, things are gonna get worse,” Cisco Talos threat researcher Nick Biasini said.

Vodafone confirmed 100% renewable energy usage in Europe beginning July 1; Nutanix’s CEO eyes a $61B market opportunity; and Dell’s Omnia automates HPC.

This isn’t a pivot for the SDN pioneer, but rather an “expansion of the field of view,” said CTO and co-founder Brandon Heller.

Arm announced technical specifications for its Confidential Compute Architecture; Illumio reached a $2.75 billion valuation; and ONF shared three branches of its private network project.

“We can’t just spend all that money on detection and assume we’re gonna catch everything, because the math no longer works,” Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin said.

Cato launches its new managed detection and response platform; Red Hat reveals an open RAN bridge for 5G operators; and T-Mobile expands its 5G coverage to 150 million people.

“I need to connect [the edge] to the rest of my enterprise, and this is where Project Aurora brings it brings it all together,” HPE CEO Antonio Neri said.

Red Hat is using two variants of Intel’s Smart Edge in OpenShift; Ericsson teases late 2022 mid-band vRAN support; and Splunk security cloud adds threat intel and automated responses.

HPE also introduced Project Aurora, a zero-trust security initiative that builds on its existing silicon root of trust, that will be available as a product later this year.

AT&T adds Palo Alto Networks to SASE arsenal; Trend Micro touts zero-trust risk insights; Red Hat readies for mass VM migrations.