The company has seen a 500 percent increase in sales since its last funding round in 2016.

A recent Forrester Research report on the big data fabric space ranked companies as “strong performers"

Dell said in a filing with the SEC that the company met with investment banks to explore an IPO.

The Major League Baseball team wanted to update its antiquated backup platform and utilize cloud storage to further reduce costs.

Palo Alto Networks plans to combine technologies from RedLock and Evident, another recent acquisition, into one product that provides cloud security analytics, advanced threat detection, continuous security, and compliance

The software-defined platform runs on top of Cohesity, Cisco, HPE, or Dell EMC hyperconverged secondary storage appliances.

The updates essentially allow enterprises to store data once, then copy it to an all-flash on-premises array, and send it to a public cloud for archiving or disaster recovery.

Both are “service experiments” in that the military wants to trial private companies — as opposed to Air Force service members — to provide IT and networking services.

Vasona Networks gets purchased by ZephyrTel; Kubernetes releases its newest version; and news out of Microsoft Ignite.

Sprint's Aaron Hinkle also weighed in on SDN: “When you move to the edge you have to be able to do a full SDN deployment.”

Paired with the P4 programming language, Barefoot’s Tofino chip gives users the freedom to design what the chip can do.

AWS and Google are notably absent from the group, though Microsoft and IBM are on board.

Previously, SteelFusion has been available out-of-box for VMware environments only. But now, Riverbed is providing SteelFusion for native Microsoft Windows Server environments for Hyper-V.

VirusTotal also has new capabilities to help companies’ threat intelligence teams better analyze massive amounts of data.

VMware ranked No. 2 in the HCI software vendor list while Dell remained the market leader for branded hyperconverged products.

Vodafone said Juniper’s Contrail Service Orchestrator is a key part of the platform because it provides customers with a self-service portal.

The Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group is looking to see how far it can push the centralized Kubernetes platform out into the distributed edge and IoT ecosystem.

The CCVPN use case allows for the orchestration of an operator’s underlying optical transport network and overlay SD-WAN in a way to support the peering of inter-operator VPN service

Patel oversaw CenturyLink’s integration with Level 3 Communications and has experience with many large acquisitions.

Digital Realty already has data centers in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. This expands its data center footprint to Latin American — a region primed for growth.

The integration allows users to manage the digital model using event-driven and serverless methods that can then be transferred to the physical environment.

Worldwide revenue for the telco VNF market in 2017 stood at only $2.5 billion.

The planned IPO comes three years private equity firms Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake took the IT management company private for $4.5 billion.

The PX-Enterprise 1.6 updates take into account the distributed storage nature of modern applications running across different clouds and container environments.