Perhaps VMware’s most surprising recent acquisition was Carbon Black, the endpoint security vendor that VMware plans to buy for $2.1 billion.

The company claims that simplicity and familiarity are what make Maesh different from other service mesh platforms on the market like Istio and Linkerd.

Splunk today said it acquired Omnition, a startup developing a observability platform for cloud-native, microservices-based applications.

The company claims the platform alleviates performance monitoring challenges associated with API-heavy and internet-dependent applications.

5G heralds a new framework for mobile connectivity and has enterprises poised to gain entirely new models for operating their business.

HCX, VMware’s Top-Secret Sauce, Comes Out; VMware Buys Veriflow for Network Monitoring, Verification; Sprint and Nokia Fall Behind on 5G Launch.

Networking manufacture Lanner, well known for its uCPE and white box appliances, is the latest industry partner to join the Open Compute Project.

The carrier has asked the FCC for early access to the 24 GHz spectrum it won during a recent government auction to test 5G capabilities.

McElfresh will replace John Donovan, who abruptly announced last week that he would be leaving the company effective Oct. 1.

The CDN's Edge Computing Platform Service is built on Kubernetes and Docker using a container architecture to support easier application deployments.

IBM and Orange Business Services top the list of U.K. SDN vendors, according to an ISG report that evaluated 51 providers.

T-Mobile US is adjusting its 5G deployment plans and has informed some contractors that purchases and build outs are on hold until next year.

Toronto-based cloud services provider OnX Canada is now offering Cisco's SD-WAN as a managed service to enterprises.

The 5G network was supposed to launch at the end of July, but Sprint and its vendor partner Nokia postponed those plans to make sure the network was ready.

Check Point expanded its CloudGuard portfolio with the launch of two new security suites aimed at locking down enterprise SD-WAN deployments.

Dell and VMware launched an SD-WAN appliance powered by VMware's VeloCloud and a new product called SmartFabric Director at VMworld 2019.

VMware rolled out updates to its NSX networking platform including a new analytics engine and load balancer.

Rackspace rolled out five new enhancements to its hybrid cloud portfolio aimed at helping customers accelerate their IT migrations.

The Qualcomm Networking Pro Series and Qualcomm FastConnect 6800 Subsystem are based on completely new chipset architecture.

The smartest networking minds converge on VMware's Future:Net. Among them is Albert Greenberg, corporate VP at Microsoft Azure Networking.

Mellanox today introduced a pair of SmartNICs for data center servers and storage systems at VMworld that boast improvements in security, performance, and efficiency for any workload.

The latest version of the Apstra Operating System (AOS) integrates with software-defined overlay networks including VMware NSX.

Donovan's departure follows a busy summer where he played a key role in landing major deals with Microsoft and IBM to advance AT&T’s push into the cloud.

Datadog is set to run in the tech IPO pack after it filed a $100 million S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] on Friday.