“Our goal is to not just have servers, storage, and IoT, but 5G telco and provide them an open architecture using open x86 hardware,” CEO Charles Liang said.

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

“We're a little bit of a best kept secret,” said Hitachi Vantara's Bobby Soni about the company's hyperconverged infrastructure products.

AT&T's CEO warned of rough waters ahead; Snowflake's IPO is forecasted to score $4 billion; and Dell plans job cuts as VMware moves on remote pay cuts.

Snowflake had 3,117 customers as of July 31, including seven of the Fortune 10 and 146 of the Fortune 500.

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.

Pandey explained his departure from Nutanix; T-Mobile’s 5G core snagged Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia; and AWS, GCP, Microsoft dominated Gartner’s cloud quadrant.

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

The updated Modular Smart Arrays enable automatic tiering and eliminate common causes of downtime via a new Health Check tool.

Nokia’s new CEO confronted complacency; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes from August.

Lenovo expanded its HCI ThinkAgile portfolio with Nutanix, Microsoft, and VMware for post-pandemic support as remote work becomes the new normal.

The Linux Foundation’s latest initiative taps open source data and analytics to tackle climate risk and investment opportunities.

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

Verizon, Intel blazed a virtualized trail with Samsung, Intel, and Wind River; HPE beat Q3 expectations; and Cisco, Cohesity HCI got even cozier

Combining HyperFlex and Cohesity creates a data management platform of hyperconverged hardware and software, said Cisco's Jawwad Memon.

The project allows DevOps teams to tag the WAN needs of their Kubernetes-managed microservices clusters so they can be mapped to the SD-WAN controller.

“We invented what we believe to be the third socket in data centers,” said Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and co-founder of Fungible.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; VMware scored a Dish 5G deal; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

Ezmeral is HPE’s answer to similar Kubernetes-focused platforms like VMware’s Tanzu and Red Hat’s OpenShift Kubernetes product.

Juniper Mist extended its artificial intelligence-driven networking capabilities to the WAN alongside its virtual assistant Marvis.

S3-compatible APIs means vendors and developers can dump Amazon storage for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage by simply pointing their data to B2.