Microsoft exposes 250 million customer records; Ericsson stock slipped; and Intel's data center business boomed in Q4.

Intel's Data Center Group accounted for more than 50% of its Q4 revenues, said CEO Bob Swan on the company's quarterly earnings call.

“Today, we are a leader in 5G with 78 commercial 5G agreements with unique operators and 24 live 5G networks on four continents," CEO Börje Ekholm said.

In the past three weeks, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, and Citrix have announced a slew of vulnerabilities as the companies have scrambled to lock down their product lines.

CloudGenix CEO took aim at Cisco; Amazon wouldn't throw in the towel on JEDI fight; and the US pledged $1B to roast Huawei with open RAN 5G.

Rakuten Mobile is running about six months behind schedule on its plan to commercially deploy a fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network.

“We build this distributed software that runs in the switches themselves, and so we leverage the switch sort of as if it’s a server effectively,” Pluribus Networks CMO Mike

CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran credited much of the SD-WAN vendor's growth in 2019 — reportedly 300% year over year — to its ability to take on its much-larger rival.

VMware bought AIOps vendor Nyansa; Red Hat was integral to IBM's Q4 success; and Vapor IO scored $90M investment.

The proposed funding pales in comparison to the amount of money Huawei and other RAN stalwarts are already investing in 5G.

Several incumbent networking players, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, VMware, Juniper Networks, and Extreme Networks held “multiple meetings” with Big Switch.

The security startup has about a dozen paying customers and is “working with some of the largest service providers,” said CEO Guru Pai.

It also reached an agreement for Cloudflare to deploy its cloud services on Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge platform.

The software giant says Nyansa will enable improved network visibility, monitoring, and remediation features for its VeloCloud SD-WAN platform.

Cisco advanced intent-based networking; SK boasted standalone 5G first; and Citrix swatted ADC, Gateway bugs.

The open source security startup reported over 400% revenue growth in 2019 and says its customers include Google, Intuit, New Relic, and Salesforce.

The five-year contract will span more than 20 production sites in 11 countries across four continents for the Netherlands-based synthetic elastomer company.

The carrier added New Radio software to its existing non-standalone 5G base stations and achieved interoperability between equipment from Ericsson and Samsung.

“We urge customers to immediately install these fixes,” noted Citrix Chief Information Security Officer Fermin Serna in a blog post.

This move Cisco another step closer to fully automated, self-correcting networks, or what the vendor and others call intent-based networking.

If Kubernetes is the helmsman that steers containers, Loodse is the the captain's captain steering Kubernetes clusters, explained the company's Bill Mulligan.

The project was born from seed code donated by AT&T in 2018, and is targeted at developing carrier-grade computing applications running in VMs and containers.

DigitalOcean drowned jobs in restructuring efforts; McAfee ousted CEO; Oracle set a record-breaking critical patch update, fixed 334 bugs.

The deployment news comes on the heels of AT&T signing a deal to provide 5G at Nellis Air Force Base.