The newly named Open Infrastructure Foundation is focused on driving open source projects into production.

Looking back on figures for the first half of 2020, Dell'Oro Group is revising some of its outlooks upward and calling others in line with expectations.

The announcement marks the latest win for the chipmaker, which has seen strong interest in its EPYC 2 server chips since they launched last year.

AT&T and Verizon 5G deployments boosted OpenStack work; Telefónica 5G tapped Juniper security; and Akamai got more SASE.

The OpenStack Foundation launched its latest Victoria OpenStack release, which includes greater Kubernetes integration.

5 election cybersecurity lessons learned; Palo Alto Networks primed its Prisma Security platform; and Red Hat automated Kubernetes management.

The work will link Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform and its Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes platform to automate cloud-native scaling.

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

The decision comes on the heels of Google taking a more controversial approach with the Istio service mesh project.

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.

“Kubernetes isn’t necessarily magic dust. You’re not going to reduce your cost with Kubernetes if you don’t manage it correctly," T-Mobile's Thom McCann said.

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

IBM ditched its legacy biz; ABI Research predicted open RAN shipments to surpass $47B by 2028; and Data center spend is set to grow in 2021.

Total open RAN radio shipments will surpass $47 billion by 2026, ABI Research predicts.

"It gives organizations a level of ‘arms wrapped around everything’ control, based upon its single source of truth and comprehensive visibility,” explained ESG's Mark Peters.

Druva's new offering eliminates backup performance and cost problems, and provides visibility and insight into unstructured NAS data.

VMware rolled out a plan to win the XDR market; TIP pitched a bigger open RAN tent; and Veeam paid $150 million for Kasten.

“We have been talking about the death of [infrastructure-as-a-service] for years now, and the reality is that it’s not going away anytime soon,” DigitalOcean's Apurva Joshi said.

Kasten’s K10 platform will be integrated into Veeam Backup and Replication, and Veeam will continue to sell K10 independently.

“TIP is about the process of changing the system — systemic change," TIP Executive Director Attilio Zani said.

Cisco bought app security startup Portshift; VMware tackled smartNICs; and McAfee pulled the IPO trigger.

“When you have cloud-native capabilities, it’s very easy to change some microservices or some capabilities without impacting the whole chain," Dish Network's Marc Rouanne said.

Cisco’s Liz Centoni said Portshift will help customers enable DevSecOps and build security constructs into cloud-native applications early in the lifecycle.

HPE’s HCI scorched Dell, Nutanix; Samsung stung Nokia with Verizon 5G deal; and Red Hat scored a 5G deal.