“There's always been some mysticism around security. I think most developers are interested in it, or curious about it, or pay attention to it in some fashion," Google's Dan

"This is really the foundation of everything we do, and part of this really important foundation is open source technology,” AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said.

AT&T and Nokia test vRAN in New Jersey; Intel talks supply chain security concerns; and HPE floods its GreenLake platform with updates.

The late-stage funding follows banner years for both companies, which reported skyrocketing revenue and bigger customers deals, signaling the growing importance of cloud-native security.

NetApp Astra is an enterprise-class storage and data services platform for Kubernetes that enables both application and data portability.

"While running Azure ML in multiple clouds will appear as another attractive benefit of this move, the reality is multi-cloud is not yet an operational reality for machine learning

While the line between data warehouses and data lakes has grown fuzzier, players on both sides of the isle have been raking in the cash.

“We sit at a critical point where there are significant architectural changes that are starting to happen that will fundamentally transform" network infrastructure, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

Executives steered clear of the bigger questions: Who will replace former CEO Pat Gelsinger? And will VMware finally split from parent company Dell Technologies?

Google Puts Kubernetes on Autopilot; VMware Squashes Bugs; and Juniper Mists 128 Technology with AI

The basics of GKE Autopilot is that it handles all of the management of cluster infrastructure, the control plane, and nodes that are typical of day-two operations.

Palo Alto Networks claimed XDR protected it from SolarWinds; Ex-CISA chief warned cybercriminals; and Google spurred a 5G initiative with Intel.

The service mesh platform is tied to linking cloud native network functions that run in edge deployments needed to support 5G use cases.

Integration, validation, and testing of network functions and use cases are among the biggest hurdles facing 5G operators.

"We’re not going to be running in the first city. We’ll be crawling and then hopefully we’ll get up and be walking by the end of the year," Dish's

Kong raised $171 million through four funding rounds to bolster its universal service mesh, and tripled its valuation to $1.4 billion since its Series C.

Arista closed a strong Q4; Check Point moved into cloud-native app protection; and IBM, Linux Foundation expanded Call for Code for Racial Justice.

The new CloudGuard AppSec product, which is based on technology Check Point acquired from ForceNock, uses contextual AI to prevent attacks against cloud apps.

Technical and engineering complexities notwithstanding, virtualization, in an ironic twist, also requires operators to balance human involvement and adoption.

Lacework scored $525 million to battle Palo Alto Networks; the Linux Foundation gobbled up Open19; and Cisco paid $4.5 billion for Acacia.

Multiple changes and less obvious signs suggest AT&T has relinquished its leadership role on virtualization, according to LightCounting.

The latest flash storage arrays refresh the entry space and offer the advantages of NVMe, IBM FlashCore, and Spectrum Virtualize technologies.

The more grandiose vision and potential success of Rakuten Mobile, and open RAN by extension, is still rooted in theoretical terms.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumped to Intel; SAP snagged a Microsoft cloud executive, and SoftBank shook up its executive ranks.