Cisco's Predictive Networks vision; Dell'Oro Group's data center growth insight; and SoftIron on the impacts of data center hardware.

The market research firm predicts public cloud spending will reach nearly $600 billion by the end of 2023.

Arm plans to cut 15% of its workforce, and Ericsson's CEO faces personal liability for the vendor's Iraq misconduct crisis.

“Operators are using the cloud to transform the core of their businesses now," AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said.

Akamai claims the acquisition positions it to become the "world's most distributed-compute platform from edge to cloud."

“Thirty three of the top 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world were built by HPE. This is more than any company,” CEO Antonio Neri boasted.

The new XDR offering combines the FireEye Helix platform with Amazon Inspector, aiming to offer better visibility and protection for applications and data in the cloud.

The initiative is one of many striving to open and disaggregate network infrastructure, interfaces, and equipment that power wireless networks.

Amazon Web Services captured 33% of cloud spending during Q3, followed by Microsoft Azure at 20%, and Google Cloud at 10%, according to Synergy Research Group.

CloudSecure continues Illumio’s zero-trust philosophy: “It’s just applying different techniques,” CTO and co-founder PJ Kirner said.

“The key differentiator from other supplier RICs is ONF’s open, vendor-neutral framework which is driven by operator use cases,” Deutsche Telekom SVP Alex Jinsung Choi said.

Serverless computing is "one more piece of the puzzle, not a replacement for everything that's come before it,” DigitalOcean's Jake Levirne said.

“The telco opportunity is the most interesting right now as the competitive landscape is wide open,” ZK Research analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

The trio of hyperscale giants are ranked, as expected, in line with their respective market share.

5G and SASE can help managed service providers drive revenues; European telecom CEOs kicked off MWC Barcelona; and “tectonic forces” are shaping the future of telecom.

Amazon Web Services remained the largest infrastructure-as-a-service provider in 2020, but Microsoft, Alibaba, Google, and Huawei gained traction in the growing IaaS market.

Azure revenue grew 50% year over year during the company’s third quarter of fiscal year 2021, and it grew 50% during the previous quarter.

The updates are designed to automate the provisioning of AWS workloads and Cisco SD-WAN software and appliances.

The most significant update is to the Ezmeral Data Fabric, which is now available as a standalone offering in addition to an embedded integration inside the HPE Ezmeral Container

CrowdStrike paid $400 million for Humio; Palo Alto Networks dropped $158 million for Bridgecrew; and HPE acquired CloudPhysics.

Ciena posted a robust Q1; KDDI moved on a 5G-focused TIP initiative; and Ericsson reflected on 2020, and is eyeing 5G growth.

The trial will test interoperability between a disaggregated cell site gateway within a Telecom Infra Project Community Lab in Japan and transport and core equipment from Mongolian mobile operator

Microsoft suffers a zero-day attack; Arista gives SOCs an AI analyst; VMware ties its SD-WAN into Azure's public cloud.

Equinix Metal is a bare metal IaaS product that partners like VMware, Google Anthos, or Red Hat can provide runtimes, applications, and other upper layer services upon.