“You can draw a direct connection to the events in the news and the two solutions we’re unveiling today,” IBM's Ruth Davis said.

Lacework scored $525 million to battle Palo Alto Networks; the Linux Foundation gobbled up Open19; and Cisco paid $4.5 billion for Acacia.

Arista is diving deeper into security; CTIA claimd 5G can create 4.6 million new U.S. jobs; and President Joe Biden revealed a $10 billion cybersecurity plan.

Bezos will assume an executive role on Amazon's board and focus his attention on new products and initiatives.

The joint effort on behalf of OVHcloud, IBM, and Atempo targets public and private organizations that require long-term preservation of sensitive data.

The new features build on the web application security updates the vendor launched with its Prisma Cloud 2.0 release last October.

The European cloud market has more than tripled over the past three years, though European service providers have seen their market share plunge from 26% in 2017, to less

“Cisco is also seeking a court mandate that the agreement may not be terminated until the court resolves these matters, and an order from the court requiring Acacia to

“And now we have two of the three largest OEMs — HPE and Cisco — adopting and supporting Open19,” said Open19 Foundation president Zachary Smith.

The world’s biggest technology vendors’ battles boiled over in 2020, and this year the feuds stretched from the clouds to court and even to a galaxy far, far away.

2020 saw some of the biggest names in tech throw their weight and wallets behind sustainability goals to slow the effects of climate change.

The new capabilities use technology that VMware acquired from Octarine, and they build on VMware’s Cloud Workload Protection that it announced at VMworld.

“While we have identified limited instances of the vulnerable SolarWinds Orion software in our own internal environment, our own internal investigation has not revealed any indication of exploitation,” VMware

As many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers installed the company’s Orion software updates containing malicious code likely inserted by Russian nation-state hackers, according to SEC documents.

SEAPATH is the second project under the LF Energy's DSAS umbrella that seeks to optimize digital substations through open source technology.

The companies threw their weight behind renewable energy projects to drive seismic, near-term reductions in carbon emissions.

The cloud provider committed to implementing resource public key infrastructure (RPKI) origin validation and route object validation.

“I’ve concluded we are witnessing an attack by a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities,” FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said.

Russian hackers exploited a VMware bug; Equinix stretched SDN, expanded edge; and Verizon tapped Silver Peak SD-WAN.

In its advisory, the U.S. National Security Agency urged organizations to patch affected systems “as soon as possible.”

“Nine months ago people knew zero trust as a paradigm was coming, and then it basically arrived overnight in a violent and unceremonious fashion,” Cisco CISO Mike Hanley said.

Delayed spectrum auctions, permitting, technology evaluations, and testing have all been delayed by about nine to 12 months due to the ongoing global pandemic, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

The vendor now offers quantum-safe cryptography support for key management and application transactions in IBM Cloud.

This customer win comes about a month after Nokia said it will move its on-premises IT infrastructure to Google Cloud.