The company is targeting Amazon first with its Anthos platform because it has a similar operational model compared with Microsoft.

“We have seen that COVID-19 is not stopping customers from their cloud migration projects with customers leaning on VMware Cloud on AWS to meet their needs,” CEO Pat Gelsinger

"We are confident that the demand for our products and services will be strong as we emerge from this crisis," CEO Thomas Kurian said.

Wound-licking Cisco targeted the next cloud computing wave; Nokia cried foul on rivals' 800G claims; and Juniper scored Contrail win.

Quarkus is a Kubernetes native Java framework that allows the programming language to be more easily used in Kubernetes or serverless environments.

Cisco pushed ACI for 5G; Microsoft released a preview of Azure Arc over Kubernetes clusters; and Nokia rolled out WaveFabric.

The Kubernetes aspect allows users to attach and configure Kubernetes clusters inside or outside of Azure.

StackRox’s Kubernetes Security Platform aims to help DevOps and security teams visualize all deployments and pods across namespaces and clusters.

Dell Technologies rolled out a bunch of updates to its year-old Dell Technologies Cloud today including a storage partnership with Google Cloud.

Rancher Academy teaches students how to build a strategy and deliver Kubernetes-as-a-service in their organizations.

Priority No. 1 is to continue consolidating endpoint protection and cloud workload protection capabilities onto its platform.

The release features new ingress gateway, terminating gateway, and WAN federation over mesh gateway tools to enable an incremental migration to service mesh.

Microsoft Azure gained similar capabilities last year.

It also formed a coalition with leading SIEM and SOAR providers Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic.

Dell and Apstra targeted enterprise SONiC adoption with networking hardware, software, and enterprise-grade technical support.

The update also highlights the ongoing activity behind the widely used software infrastructure layer that continues to trade on its robustness compared to newer options.

Nokia faced a hostile takeover bid; Google eyeing a D2iQ purchase; T-Mobile to slash $30M in cloud costs with Kubernetes; plus the latest VC/M&A news from April.

The Cloud Satellite service allows users to run their IBM Cloud service in on-premises or edge locations managed through a single pane of glass in the public cloud.

The deal combines with NetApp's recent Talon acquisition to provide an integrated "modern workplace-type environment," said NetApp's Vikram Bhatia.

The expansion will allow users to manage OpenShift clusters running on Azure or on infrastructure-as-a-service, VMs, or on-premises bare metal.

Axios reports that D2iQ would be valued north of $250 million, but less than its $775 million valuation following its Series D round.

The updates focus on providing a simplified control panel for applications running in different virtualized environments.

Project Astra offers a normalized application data management approach that results in the portability of data rich or stateful applications.

Anthos customers can now run Google-managed workloads inside of AWS. Azure support remains a work in progress.