Sprint’s debt got uglier; Cisco fused IT, OT with IoT security architecture; and Altiostar linked up with NEC to crack the 5G vRAN market.

Microsoft exposes 250 million customer records; Ericsson stock slipped; and Intel's data center business boomed in Q4.

CloudGenix CEO took aim at Cisco; Amazon wouldn't throw in the towel on JEDI fight; and the US pledged $1B to roast Huawei with open RAN 5G.

Google's Cloud Secret Manager addresses security concerns as the rise of multi-cloud continues complicating identity and access controls.

“We feel like the technology is ready but there’s more features to make it more broadly attractive, and that's what we're doing with the money,” said co-founder Mark Hinkle.

VMware bought AIOps vendor Nyansa; Red Hat was integral to IBM's Q4 success; and Vapor IO scored $90M investment.

Cisco advanced intent-based networking; SK boasted standalone 5G first; and Citrix swatted ADC, Gateway bugs.

The open source security startup reported over 400% revenue growth in 2019 and says its customers include Google, Intuit, New Relic, and Salesforce.

If Kubernetes is the helmsman that steers containers, Loodse is the the captain's captain steering Kubernetes clusters, explained the company's Bill Mulligan.

DigitalOcean drowned jobs in restructuring efforts; McAfee ousted CEO; Oracle set a record-breaking critical patch update, fixed 334 bugs.

CenturyLink nabbed $1.6B Interior Department win; Rogers rolled out a 5G first; and Telstra, Equinix deepened partnership integrations.

Verizon to lead new 5G group; Microsoft, NSA warn of "critical" vulnerability; and Red Hat updated OpenShift to target multi-cloud, security.

The updates tap into Red Hat's NooBaa acquisition in 2018.

Nokia cut 180 jobs, with more to come; Equinix pushed to the edge with Packet acquisition; and Google powered up on IBM Power Systems.

With more people looking for vulnerabilities, the safer and more secure Kubernetes will be, explained Google execs.

Strong growth, high customer retention, and expansion opportunities make Veeam "one of the most exciting software companies in the world,” said Insight Partners' Mike Triplett.

The Falco project joins 14 other Incubating projects as the first and, so far, only security runtime platform within CNCF.

The partnership makes Cumulus Linux operating system and NetQ performance monitoring available on HPE’s ethernet switches.

Juniper CTO Bikash Koley calls it quits; Larry Ellison says Oracle will not replace Hurd; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Broadcom paid $10.7B for Symantec; Cisco bought Acacia Communications for $2.6B; plus 2019's biggest VC/M&A headlines.

JR Rivers left Cumulus Networks for AWS; Nutanix’s Sunil Potti joined Google; plus 2019's biggest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Instana CEO Mirko Novakovic said the acquisitions advance the company's vision to "accelerate overall product vision to take APM further, faster."

The report measured AWS, GCP, and Azure on CPU, network, and storage while highlighting performance trade-offs with each provider.

Transfer Service aims to removes inherent complexities with large-scale data transfers and moving customer’s on-premises data to the cloud.