After acquiring Symantec, Broadcom migrated that vendor’s web security service and cloud access security broker onto Google Cloud.

Microsoft will pay $19.7B for Nuance; IBM named its infrastructure spinoff; and Comcast software jumped into the CNCF Sandbox.

Nvidia's BlueField-3 DPU is capable of offloading 300 CPU cores worth of SDN, storage, security, and AI workloads.

McAfee sold its enterprise business for $4 billion; VMware joined the cloud-native app security frenzy; and Orca scored a whale of a Series C.

Amazon tapped former VP Selipsky to helm AWS; Nokia slashed more than 2,000 jobs in 2020; and Hewlett Packard Enterprise is expanding its Ireland workforce.

Cisco Duo offers passwordless security; Innovium certified its switch silicon; and Cisco, Huawei dominated a down enterprise network market.

The Fungible Data Center are pre-populated racks with pools of CPU, GPU, or storage resources that are allocated on the fly by the company's software platform.

Palo Alto Networks SASE-fied Comcast SDN; Nokia hastened its shift to cloud; and SolarWinds' CEO claimed software will block breaches.

Enterprises are on the hunt for cost-effective storage that can scale with their HPC needs, and according to Cloudian's Gary Ogasawara, object storage is the golden goose.

When it comes to hybrid cloud, “Your business goes only as fast as the data infrastructure that supports the business,” NetApp CEO George Kurian said.

The most significant update is to the Ezmeral Data Fabric, which is now available as a standalone offering in addition to an embedded integration inside the HPE Ezmeral Container

CrowdStrike paid $400 million for Humio; Palo Alto Networks dropped $158 million for Bridgecrew; and HPE acquired CloudPhysics.

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

AWS' Jassy was tapped to lead Amazon; Biden bolstered open source recruiting coders; and ex Microsoft exec was tapped to lead CloudSphere.

“The big point here is blockchain is useful," Oracle's Juan Loaiza said. "It adds another layer that isn't solved by any traditional security technologies."

The HCI updates come as HPE has been steadily gaining market share in this hot market segment against competitors including Dell Technologies and Nutanix.

Equinix Metal is a bare metal IaaS product that partners like VMware, Google Anthos, or Red Hat can provide runtimes, applications, and other upper layer services upon.

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.

Some of Dell Technologies’ optimism is fueled by its 2019 pledge to shift to cloud-delivered IT services that it rebranded last fall as Project Apex.

On the company's Q2 earnings call, Ramaswami touted a “multi-million-dollar, one-year subscription deal” with a top financial services company to provide more than 90,000 virtual desktops.

The software-as-a-service platform seeks to identify inefficiencies in the data center and simulate potential remedies.

Arista and Microsoft validated optical pluggables; Databricks drove Google Cloud to the data lakehouse; and Cisco and Palo Alto Networks are eyeing an XDR and SASE fusion.

The partnership will give Databricks users the ability to bring their data lakes and the service’s analytics capabilities to Google Cloud.

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