VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger thinks IBM paid too much for Red Hat at $34 billion. Meanwhile VMware paid $2.8 billion for Pivotal, and “I have better assets.”

Comcast today said it deployed Trellis, the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) open source SDN fabric, in “multiple markets.”

Operators moving to virtualized architectures can save 40% in capex, according to a study by Arthur D. Little, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica.

A tier-one operator deployed Trellis, an open source SDN-based platform, said AT&T’s Andre Fuetsch during an ONF Connect keynote. He didn’t name the operator.

Stratum is a silicon-independent switch operating system for SDN that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms.

The next phase of composable infrastructure involves 5G networks as a fabric type.

EdgeConneX teamed up with Lume in a move that gives the data center company’s customers access to edge-based hybrid cloud services.

Perhaps VMware’s most surprising recent acquisition was Carbon Black, the endpoint security vendor that VMware plans to buy for $2.1 billion.

Splunk today said it acquired Omnition, a startup developing a observability platform for cloud-native, microservices-based applications.

Huawei accused the U.S. government of using cyberattacks and “every tool at its disposal” to disrupt it and its partners’ business operations.

Cisco issued a patch for a critical bug in its IOS XE operating system that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication.

CEO Dheeraj Pandey said Nutanix signed 58 deals worth more than $1 million during Q4 of fiscal 2019.

HPE now offers VMware’s full software stack as a service. SDxCentral caught up with Paul Miller, VP of product marketing at HPE, to discuss.

Cisco’s multi-cloud management tool CloudCenter Suite is now globally available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

VMware rolled out updates to its NSX networking platform including a new analytics engine and load balancer.

The smartest networking minds converge on VMware's Future:Net. Among them is Albert Greenberg, corporate VP at Microsoft Azure Networking.

VMware hasn’t had the best reputation in the open source community, CEO Pat Gelsinger admits. In fact, he sums it up in one word: “Bad.”

The latest version of the Apstra Operating System (AOS) integrates with software-defined overlay networks including VMware NSX.

VMware kicked off VMworld with more proof that it’s all in on containers in the form of Tanzu, which is its new Kubernetes’ portfolio.

In addition to spending billions of dollars buying companies in the lead up to VMworld next week, VMware also updated its Cloud Provider Platform.

VMware said it will buy Pivotal in a deal valued at $2.7 billion and security company Carbon Black in a deal valued at $2.1 billion.

The edge internet economy will surpass $4.1 trillion by 2030, according to a study by Chetan Sharma Consulting and commissioned by AlefEdge.

Big Switch says its software-defined networking products are “ideally suited” for cloud providers’ on-premises plays such as AWS Outposts.

VMware bought Intrinsic, an application security startup, in its fifth acquisition in three months, adding serverless security to its lineup.