“I would like the industry to come to some consensus about the terminology,” Microsoft's Cindy Xing said.

Nvidia scored record Q3 revenues; VMware's enterprise blockchain platform landed; and FireEye scored $400 million.

Respond developed a cloud-native extended detection and response engine that uses artificial intelligence to automate security alert investigation.

Kubernetes complexity continued to challenge lock-In concerns; AWS added a network firewall; and T-Mobile's Ray knocked mmWave, open RAN.

Instana's application performance monitoring platform will be integrated into IBM's existing monitoring stack and feed its Watson AIOps engine.

“The danger often is some of these companies refuse to work on products that are not directly aligned to their … company's products," said the USAF's Nicolas Chaillan.

Nokia warned of a COVID-19 related traffic spike; Cato claims unicorn status; and EdgeQ snagged $51M in funding for 5G and AI modem work.

The commercial product works with VMware’s NSX-T platform to support container connectivity for Kubernetes clusters in a software-defined data center.

Cisco bagged Banzai Cloud; VMware stuffed security Into SmartNICs; and AMD unveiled its Instinct MI100 GPU.

Banzai Cloud developed a Kubernetes-based platform that helps enterprises develop, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications.

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

Palo Alto Networks paid $670M for Expanse; Ericsson rode 5G, R&D to revive business growth; and Dell beefed up its data protection portfolio.

Barracuda will integrate Fyde’s zero trust networking into its networking and security stack. It’s also available now as a standalone remote access agent.

Dell also updated Data Manager software capabilities for Kubernetes and cloud data protection for Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware Tanzu.

Cisco unshackled Its HyperFlex HCI; Palo Alto Networks added cloud-based DLP; and Verizon leaned on Cisco, BlackBerry for internet security.

The “Cisco Validated” program will test and validate the HCI platform running on third-party and white box servers.

F5 is positioning these Kubernetes-based services as a layer that network operators will require as they transition to 5G standalone cores.

“We are on our way to meet our requirements” imposed by the Federal Communications Commission, Dish's Marc Rouanne said.

The vendor's reputation management system mines data from 200 threat intelligence databases and correlates the data against network insights to eliminate false alarms.

The announcements punctuate NetApp’s new narrative as a “cloud-led, data-centric software company.”

McAfee’s news comes just a day after Cisco announced extended detection and response updates, and earlier this month VMware laid out its XDR strategy.

Cisco boasts about 1,000 SecureX wins; a Trump advisor claimed U.S. 5G clobbers China; and Microsoft’s commercial cloud avoided COVID-19 complications.

The vendor's Nexus Dashboard also was updated to better support the deployment of cloud-native applications.

VMware telco cloud jolted Samsung’s 5G; AMD added Xilinx to its chip armada; and Ericsson kickstarted its open RAN journey with virtualization.