“This offer is really built to simplify our customers' multi-cloud world," Dell Technologies SVP Varun Chhabra said.

Fresh off its $7.5 billion valuation, the cybersecurity unicorn built a cloud-delivered firewall and integrated recent acquisitions for new remote browser isolation and SaaS security posture management.

The launch continues the vendor's Connected Security strategy that involves enforcing security policies at every connection point across the network: switches, firewalls, routers, public and private cloud, and endpoints.

"At the end of day, with Apex we're creating the new Dell, and everything's got to transform to make that happen," Dell's Sam Grocott said.

Dell and VMware reached a spinoff deal; Juniper built a Metro Cloud; and China Mobile Cloud will deploy Nuage's Virtual Cloud Services.

The partnership will see China Mobile Cloud deploy Nuage Network's Virtual Cloud Services platform for virtual private cloud and bare metal routing.

The joint initiative will see Siemens apply IBM’s open hybrid cloud approach built on Red Hat OpenShift to extend the deployment flexibility of its IoT software.

Rakuten struck a 5G deal with Ligado Networks; Juniper upped its WAN automation game; and a VMware VP spilled SASE tea.

The new product joins Dell’s hybrid cloud service, which is also available through the Cloud Console, and it builds on the instance-based offerings introduced in the fall.

The move closely follows Nokia’s recent deal to migrate its data centers, servers, and various software applications to Google Cloud.

Aruba bumped Cisco from the Pentagon; AMD bagged Xilinx for $35B; and Juniper paid $450 million to buy 128 Technology.

New container-native capabilities to the IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks target Red Hat OpenShift and container-native data protection and discovery.

The vendor also unveiled a more flexible NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription service and a new NetApp SolidFire Enterprise SDS service.

Synchronoss' CEO resigned; Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey stepped down; plus the latest headcount movements from September.

T-Mobile detailed its $40B network upgrade strategy; Equinix paid $161M for India data centers; plus the latest VC/M&A news from August.

The Kubernetes S3 Operator extends Cloudian's support for cloud-native environments where it already serves as a scale-out backup target.

The SlashData and CNCF survey also found that somehow 14% of backend developers had not heard of Kubernetes, compared to just 5% that had not heard of containers.

The cloud management updates “really cut across both VM-based infrastructure as well as container-based infrastructure,” VMware’s Ken Lee said.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; VMware scored a Dish 5G deal; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; Verizon grabbed Google Cloud for its multi-cloud strategy; and Rackspace filed for an IPO.

Verizon recently turned to Amazon Web Services to use the No. 1 cloud provider’s Wavelength edge compute service as the foundation for the Verizon Edge platform.

The IPO represents a return to the public market for the managed cloud services provider, which went private in 2016 under a $4.3 billion deal led by Apollo Global

Google brought BeyondCorp zero-trust security to the masses; Alibaba injected $28B into the cloud; and Rackspace readied its $10B IPO.

The move would mean Rackspace’s return to the public market. The managed services company went private in 2016 in a $4.3 billion deal led by Apollo Global Management.