Wound-licking Cisco targeted the next cloud computing wave; Nokia cried foul on rivals' 800G claims; and Juniper scored Contrail win.

Quarkus is a Kubernetes native Java framework that allows the programming language to be more easily used in Kubernetes or serverless environments.

Google’s Kelsey Hightower used the term “forcing function” to describe how the current health crisis is forcing organizations to make technology decisions.

Cisco pushed ACI for 5G; Microsoft released a preview of Azure Arc over Kubernetes clusters; and Nokia rolled out WaveFabric.

The Kubernetes aspect allows users to attach and configure Kubernetes clusters inside or outside of Azure.

StackRox’s Kubernetes Security Platform aims to help DevOps and security teams visualize all deployments and pods across namespaces and clusters.

Dell Technologies rolled out a bunch of updates to its year-old Dell Technologies Cloud today including a storage partnership with Google Cloud.

Rancher Academy teaches students how to build a strategy and deliver Kubernetes-as-a-service in their organizations.

Priority No. 1 is to continue consolidating endpoint protection and cloud workload protection capabilities onto its platform.

The release features new ingress gateway, terminating gateway, and WAN federation over mesh gateway tools to enable an incremental migration to service mesh.

Microsoft Azure gained similar capabilities last year.

Despite growing financial losses tied to its deployment plans Rakuten Mobile still found money to purchase its OSS vendor Innoeye.

It also formed a coalition with leading SIEM and SOAR providers Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic.

Dell and Apstra targeted enterprise SONiC adoption with networking hardware, software, and enterprise-grade technical support.

The update also highlights the ongoing activity behind the widely used software infrastructure layer that continues to trade on its robustness compared to newer options.

Nokia faced a hostile takeover bid; Google eyeing a D2iQ purchase; T-Mobile to slash $30M in cloud costs with Kubernetes; plus the latest VC/M&A news from April.

Despite the calamity brought on by COVID-19, Dish still plans to launch 5G service in a single market with a network core before the year ends.

The Cloud Satellite service allows users to run their IBM Cloud service in on-premises or edge locations managed through a single pane of glass in the public cloud.

"Our network teams both kept the current systems running smoothly and have continued to deliver on our long-term innovation strategy," AT&T's Scott Mair said.

Complexities were abundant and corralling vendors for a virtualized, cloud-native, open radio access network required intensive work.

“You need to be the owner of your own destiny and this disaggregation strategy needs to be looked at as a holistic end-to-end story,” said Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin.

China Mobile donated XGVela, which has also gained support or interest from China Unicom, China Telecom, ZTE, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, and Red Hat.

The deal combines with NetApp's recent Talon acquisition to provide an integrated "modern workplace-type environment," said NetApp's Vikram Bhatia.

The expansion will allow users to manage OpenShift clusters running on Azure or on infrastructure-as-a-service, VMs, or on-premises bare metal.