Cisco baked new chips into Silicon One; AT&T expanded Cisco’s IoT control center; and Verizon VNS vaulted Kubernetes to the edge.

The VNS Application Edge platform taps Rafay Systems to provide an automation framework for managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized application deployment.

Dell doubled down on cloud services with Project Apex; Splunk drank the RUM and gulped down Plumbr, Rigor; and Ericsson rode China to profit.

“We need to rethink application security into what call cloud-native application security,” Snyk co-founder and President Guy Podjarny said.

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

AT&T and Verizon 5G deployments boosted OpenStack work; Telefónica 5G tapped Juniper security; and Akamai got more SASE.

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

5 election cybersecurity lessons learned; Palo Alto Networks primed its Prisma Security platform; and Red Hat automated Kubernetes management.

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

Microsoft won a court order to take control of Trickbot; T-Mobile said Kubernetes isn’t magic dust; and Cloudflare got SASE.

Nvidia took Arm off SoftBanks’ hands for $40 billion; Accenture bet $3 billion on Cloud First expansion; and Red Hat scored a Samsung 5G deal.

“Kubernetes isn’t necessarily magic dust. You’re not going to reduce your cost with Kubernetes if you don’t manage it correctly," T-Mobile's Thom McCann said.

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

Druva's new offering eliminates backup performance and cost problems, and provides visibility and insight into unstructured NAS data.

“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.

Kasten’s K10 platform will be integrated into Veeam Backup and Replication, and Veeam will continue to sell K10 independently.

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

HPE claimed to have the most secure server; Intel won DoD contract; and Europe’s four largest operators trumpeted open network gateways.

Cisco bought app security startup Portshift; VMware tackled smartNICs; and McAfee pulled the IPO trigger.

“When you have cloud-native capabilities, it’s very easy to change some microservices or some capabilities without impacting the whole chain," Dish Network's Marc Rouanne said.

Cisco’s Liz Centoni said Portshift will help customers enable DevSecOps and build security constructs into cloud-native applications early in the lifecycle.

The project aims to provide a consistent management platform for distributed compute across multiple accelerators using smartNICs.

The operator is hitting its stride on 5G network deployments amid some shifts in the Japanese telecommunications market.

Who will VMware buy next? “If I really answered that, I’d have to shoot you,” CEO Pat Gelsinger said.