VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said he expects Carbon Black combined with VMware’s “security-driven value-add” networking and cloud products to be a $1 billion business this year.

Bloomberg reported earlier today that Dell Technologies is considering selling RSA Security for at least $1 billion.

“It’s a very large market, and large markets are red oceans. Red oceans have whales and red oceans are bloody,” CEO Dheeraj Pandey said.

SD-WAN market reports consistently show Cisco and VMware jockeying for the No. 1 spot. But to date VMware hasn’t disclosed its SD-WAN customer count.

Almost four months after announcing that its founding CEO was on his way out, A10 Networks selected Dhrupad Trivedi to lead the company.

“Everybody does automation,” Extreme’s Dan DeBacker said. “But we believe we’re the only ones that have it embedded in the switch.”

The changes will "strongly position the company against our competitors," according to an internal email sent to employees by Cisco’s David Goeckeler.

This includes a new External Key Manager, which allows companies to store and manage encryption keys outside of Google Cloud

The platform uses an open-source connector to integrate with IBM and other vendors’ security tools as well as data from across a company’s infrastructure.

Polynimbus is essentially multi-cloud phase two, and it addresses how to manage and secure applications running in these multi-cloud environments.

CloudSimple technology gives customers native access to the full VMware stack deployed on Google Cloud Platform.

The edge computing partnership allows local enterprises — specifically the automotive sector and suppliers — to connect to Sprint’s IoT platform.

If we want humans to trust artificial intelligence, then machines must learn empathy, said Dell Technologies CTO John Roese.

Service provider revenue dropped 13% year over year in Q1, while Cisco’s enterprise business declined 5%.

Companies including Inspur and Dell Technologies sell Liqid’s switch and software inside their servers and storage devices.

Dell Technologies announced an on-demand buying model for its products and autonomous infrastructure that includes its servers, networking, and storage integrated with VMware software.

Cloud security posture management includes processes and tools to avoid cloud misconfigurations that can lead to data leakage.

“The larger vision here is that Mist is the cornerstone of Juniper’s AI-driven enterprise story,” said Juniper's Jeff Aaron.

“The important thing to realize is we’re in this for the long haul,” Chronicle CEO Stephen Gillett said at a launch event earlier this year.

Digital Realty wants to unseat data center heavyweight Equinix. And it plans to do this by solving what it calls “the data gravity problem.”

The vendor added proactive and defensive capabilities across its security portfolio as part of its push to reduce complexity.

VMware also added security services and unveiled a beta program for two of its new Kubernetes products.

The open source group says it will produce a RoT silicon reference design and integration guidelines for use in data center servers and other devices.

Volterra’s SaaS-based platform can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge locations.