“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.

Axios reports that D2iQ would be valued north of $250 million, but less than its $775 million valuation following its Series D round.

The updates focus on providing a simplified control panel for applications running in different virtualized environments.

The software vendor claims this framework can deliver a tenfold reduction in total cost of ownership.

Project Astra offers a normalized application data management approach that results in the portability of data rich or stateful applications.

Anthos customers can now run Google-managed workloads inside of AWS. Azure support remains a work in progress.

The vendor's 2.0 update includes testing and infrastructure provisioning capabilities that its CEO Joe Duffy said users are calling "superpowers."

The U.K. government is requiring operators to limit the use of Huawei equipment in the core of 5G networks due to security concerns.

Cisco paved Rakuten's virtual roaming road; VMware bolstered its hybrid cloud with Kubernetes products; and ARM joined the O-RAN alliance.

Joining the alliance will speed Arm's mission to develop open, interoperable, and cloud-native infrastructure for 5G networks, said Arm's Panch Chandrasekaran.

The updates include application and infrastructure additions designed to ease operations in a Kubernetes environment and further integrate VMware’s Kubernetes properties.

Some of the new features include better public cloud cost comparisons via integration with VMware’s CloudHealth and improved VMware Cloud on AWS migration.

The move targets the challenge of container storage by extending persistent data storage to containers running in the AWS ecosystem.

"Closed limited resources and ideas can never compete with something that is open to the world – and the world contributing," said Google's Kelsey Hightower.

All of the new RAN gear is running on chipsets from Nokia’s ReefShark portfolio including new CPUs and GPUs.

KEDA was designed to allow developers to run serverless functions within a Kubernetes environment across other clouds and on-premises locations.

Rakuten Mobile’s successful launch serves as a clarion call for the wireless industry, proving that there are indeed new and more efficient ways to assemble networks.

The DevOps monitoring platform extended support to several IBM Cloud services including IBM Watson and Cloud Foundry.

More than 225,000 branch offices have deployed VMware’s SD-WAN, said VMware’s Tom Gillis. “All of a sudden we’re No. 1.”

The carrier is “sizing our operations to economic activity”; VMware is helping Vodafone cut costs; and Snyk sees the pandemic propelling DecSecOps.

Chip Childers called the transition “a great moment in time” as Cloud Foundry continues to tighten its embrace of the Kubernetes ecosystem.