VMware bolsters SASE security with SaltStack buy; AT&T disaggregated routing; and Juniper jumped on Netrounds.

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

The combination of Lightbits Labs’ NVMe-over-TCP with Intel products will provide an "optimized software and hardware" offering, the vendors said.

VMware integrated Menlo Security technologies into its SASE platform and started talking about its extended detection and response strategy today at VMworld.

VMware needs to think outside the virtual machine if it wants to compete in the SASE space, said Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research.

“We're not quite there yet with all the pieces in the open RAN," said Ian Hood, chief technologist at Red Hat.

“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.

AT&T met its SDN goal; Accenture bet $3B on Cloud First expansion; and the COVID-19 crunched the cloud-native ecosystem.

Pure Storage's Matt Kixmoeller calls the combination of Pure Storage and Portworx "an opportunity to provide the most complete storage platform."

VMware drove Tanzu, Kubernetes deeper into its portfolio; 5G open RAN continued to struggle; and Verizon's 5G expansion will beat the next iPhone.

Adding MinIO object storage to the new vSAN platform gives VMware a healthy dose of the DevOps and open source appeal it needs to to win the Kubernetes wars.

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

Overcoming myriad competing interests to achieve even some open RAN goals is an ongoing challenge with no apparent resolution in sight.

The contract marks the sixth vendor selection to date for Dish following previous deals with Altiostar, Fujitsu, Mavenir, VMware, and Matrixx.

Microsoft warned of election attacks; VMware aspires to join cool kids Kubernetes klique; and Ericsson sound the open RAN security alarm.

“We want to pave the world with VMware Kubernetes,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said at the Citi Global Technology virtual conference.

The new Microsoft partnership comes about a month after Nutanix landed a similar service with Amazon Web Services.

“We’re essentially delivering new versions of network cloud every three to four weeks now," AT&T's Ryan van Wyk said.

Telefónica tapped AWS for 5G core virtualization; Volterra pushed security to the API layer; and Open RAN expected to skyrocket by 2025.

DevOps and security teams can use VoltMesh to provide zero trust networking and security services at every distributed cluster but with centralized management, visibility, and policy control.

“I view Telefónica as a leader in the European market on this front,” analyst Will Townsend said.

VMware repackaged tech as 5G Telco Cloud; 5G poised to boost wireless WAN; and Amazon, Microsoft teamed up with the LF Climate Finance Foundation.

The platform includes updated versions and more integrated support for VMware’s cloud-native software stack and network automation services.