VMware names a new CEO; Nutanix's CEO talks layoffs; and other top headcount moves that happened across the industry in May.

Cloudera is being taken private by affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in an all-cash deal valued at around $5.3 billion.

SAP claims cloud neutrality; Ericsson has RAN disaggregation limits; and SDxCentral's 2-Minute Weekly Wrap podcast.

“There's people looking for drama right now, but there is none. ... We're working with all of the providers and have good relationships with all the providers,” noted SAP's

VMware SVP calls XDR the "next frontier;" Cisco adds more oomph to its hybrid cloud; and Samsung says vRAN equals double-digit cost savings.

The vendor's Intersight and ThousandEyes platforms added more capabilities, and Cisco rolled out its new X-Series UCS to run hybrid-cloud environments.

Cisco's Stephen Augustus is focused on open source connectivity; Dell updated its VxRail HCI; and Nokia's XDR launch snared telecom operators.

Nutanix CEO talked layoffs and wins against VMware; VMware tapped a technologist as its new CEO; and Palo Alto Networks sees SASE as the future.

“It's very important that we understand that when we think of data as an ability that we need to think about these interconnected areas and skills because data actually

“This means you can now run your favorite Azure application services on premise, on the edge, or other clouds," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in his Build 2021 keynote.

One of the more significant moves was the launch of its SUSE Edge platform that targets building and managing cloud-native applications running in edge locations.

That lead could be important as Gartner predicts that cloud-delivered EPP will account for 95% of deployments by the end of 2023.

The Konveyor Project is an overarching platform that includes several components targeted at various migration models focused on re-hosting, re-platforming, or re-factoring legacy applications.

The vendors has a new open source reference architecture that allows operators and their vendor partners to build cloud-native applications and functions on top of the Kubernetes-based OpenShift.

The newly christened OpenShift Platform Plus now acts as Red Hat's halo self-managed hybrid cloud offering.

The company said the investment would target American suppliers, data center investments, capital expenditures in the U.S., and its Apple TV+ productions.

The project has slowed its release cadence to three per year, a “sign of Kubernetes becoming boring/mature,” platform co-developer Joe Beda noted on Twitter.

The cloud giant will act as the hub for Dish Network’s cloud-based 5G open radio access network.

CEO Arvind Krishna noted a strong boost from the Americas and parts of Asia that aligned with a broader economic recovery tied to the roll out of COVID-19 vaccines.

Company management crowed about the results as positive proof of its push toward the hybrid cloud market.

Forrester Research ranked the trio as function-as-a-service market "leaders" based on the depth and breadth of their offerings.

The move could prove to be a boost for Cisco, which continues to struggle in gaining a wider hold of the 5G equipment market.

More importantly, the ruling indicated that copyright law could be applied differently to software code.

Verizon customers will be able to tap into the combination to deploy a fully managed private mobile edge compute network within their on-premises environment that can handle low-latency applications.