The carrier reported a smaller earnings-per-share hit tied to the ongoing pandemic and turned more positive on its full-year financial performance expectations.

CFO Jim Kavanaugh explained that customers are continuing to hold their financial investments close to the chest in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The newly named Open Infrastructure Foundation is focused on driving open source projects into production.

The OpenStack Foundation launched its latest Victoria OpenStack release, which includes greater Kubernetes integration.

The work will link Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform and its Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes platform to automate cloud-native scaling.

The decision comes on the heels of Google taking a more controversial approach with the Istio service mesh project.

The Department of Defense's cloud native-focused DevSecOps initiative has about 60 programs including jets, bombers, nuclear systems, and space systems.

The tech giant is ditching its lagging Managed Infrastructure Services and Global Technology Services business units into their own separate public company dubbed “NewCo.”

"It gives organizations a level of ‘arms wrapped around everything’ control, based upon its single source of truth and comprehensive visibility,” explained ESG's Mark Peters.

“We have decades of experience and know full well how to appropriately create opportunities for people without taking away opportunities from others,” wrote Microsoft General Counsel Dev Stahlkopf.

“We have been talking about the death of [infrastructure-as-a-service] for years now, and the reality is that it’s not going away anytime soon,” DigitalOcean's Apurva Joshi said.

The work targets technical support issues at manufacturing plants that can’t be resolved by sending a technician overseas due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The AWS move is significant as both VMware’s Cloud on AWS and Tanzu have been significant interest drivers for the vendor.

Underneath that Defender brand will sit Microsoft 365 Defender for end-user environments and Azure Defender for cloud and hybrid infrastructure.

The combination is the first to come from a wide-ranging “cloud” agreement announced last year between the two companies.

“Microsoft realizes the world is going hybrid, multi, and they want to be the guardian of these combined estate via their own control plane," said Gartner's Sid Nag.

Forrester Research ranked multi-cloud container development platforms from those three vendors ahead of five other vendors on the list, including VMware, D2iQ, and Mirantis.

The new organization will include 70,000 employees and integrate Accenture’s experience with cloud migration, infrastructure, application services, and ecosystem partners.

A new vSphere-Tanzu combo provides enterprises with more flexibility to bring their own networking or storage compared with VMware's Cloud Foundation platform.

The companies will develop NFV technologies for 5G network infrastructure and establish a standardized process for NFV adoption.

Outside of the top three, Gartner placed Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, IBM, and Tencent Cloud in that order within the “niche players” box.

Chef CEO Barry Crist had previously admitted that the firm was being “highly impacted” by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The release was initially expected to drop around the end of June, however project leaders explained that external events altered that plan.

The cloud giant also launched its Cloud App Modernization Program that helps map out an organization's upgrade path using Google's cadre of cloud products.