Nutanix report found it's no longer cost savings driving hybrid cloud adoption, but rather the demand for flexibility to run workloads anywhere.

The partnership caps a busy year for the startup, which raised $167.2 million this year alone in two funding rounds that sent its valuation soaring above $9 billion.

Palo Alto Networks paid $670M for Expanse; Ericsson rode 5G, R&D to revive business growth; and Dell beefed up its data protection portfolio.

Expanse counts the U.S. Department of Defense, CVS Health, Allergan, PayPal, Accenture, Orrick, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Department of Energy as customers.

Taking advantage of artificial intelligence isn't as simple as throwing more GPUs and FPGAs or other accelerators into a data center, wrote Dell'Oro's Baron Fung.

Political campaigns face particularly tough cybersecurity challenges because they essentially operate as large, distributed enterprises with thousands of employees.

Microsoft won a court order to take control of Trickbot; T-Mobile said Kubernetes isn’t magic dust; and Cloudflare got SASE.

Nvidia took Arm off SoftBanks’ hands for $40 billion; Accenture bet $3 billion on Cloud First expansion; and Red Hat scored a Samsung 5G deal.

The Department of Defense's cloud native-focused DevSecOps initiative has about 60 programs including jets, bombers, nuclear systems, and space systems.

“We have decades of experience and know full well how to appropriately create opportunities for people without taking away opportunities from others,” wrote Microsoft General Counsel Dev Stahlkopf.

“This is a widespread problem in the cloud,” Palo Alto Network’s Matt Chiodi said.

HPE claimed to have the most secure server; Intel won DoD contract; and Europe’s four largest operators trumpeted open network gateways.

HPE started shipping its ProLiant DL380T server to U.S. customers through the secure supply chain initiative, and it plans to expand to the rest of its portfolio in 2021.

“Sustainability is a North Star for cost reduction and innovation,” said Forrester's Abhijit Sunil during Commvault's Climate Week event.

Google Cloud drives Unilever’s sustainable sourcing; Microsoft takes a water positive dive; plus other Climate Week announcements on our radar.

“The stakes of this are high, and 5G will determine whether the next Google, Apple, Amazon, and Uber of the world is created here in the U.S. or abroad,"

“The threat actors aren’t solely after the modification of votes,” said Cisco Talos’ Matt Olney. “They’re after the collective faith in the electoral process and in Western democracy in

“The U.S.’ natural ability to lead in 5G as it did in LTE has absolutely been challenged," T-Mobile's Neville Ray said.

Samsung, Verizon 5G deal sealed Nokia's doom; Nutanix extended HCI to Microsoft Azure; and Chef sold its DevOps kitchen to Progress.

Amazon claims President Donald Trump interfered in the $10 billion cloud contract.

VMware repackaged tech as 5G Telco Cloud; 5G poised to boost wireless WAN; and Amazon, Microsoft teamed up with the LF Climate Finance Foundation.

The Linux Foundation’s latest initiative taps open source data and analytics to tackle climate risk and investment opportunities.

"This is not moving fast enough. This is moving at telco speed, not cloud speed," analyst Chris Nicoll said.

Cybereason hosted several of these election security tabletop exercises with the public and private sector to test resilience to possible disruptions.